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Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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Post by zxcvvcxz » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

I don't know - just telling my facebook friends that I couldn't get out of bed in the morning? Sounds too mundane and even relate-able. "Oh Jim didn't get out of bed again," big fucking deal right?

Let's up the stakes here. You know what alarm I would never fuck with? The one that's about to "like" a certain fetish video on redtube or youporn.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#42

Post by ap0rnnstar » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

zxcvvcxz wrote: post #41

I don't know - just telling my facebook friends that I couldn't get out of bed in the morning? Sounds too mundane and even relate-able. "Oh Jim didn't get out of bed again," big fucking deal right? Let's up the stakes here. You know what alarm I would never fuck with? The one that's about to "like" a certain fetish video on redtube or youporn.

LOL, that's insanity wolf territory. I'm not sure if I can handle that.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#43

Post by HCIdivision17 » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 10:24 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #12

Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app. Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet. And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after…

Sleep Cycle for the iPhone tracks and graphs quite a bit of useful information and may provide many of the features you're looking for. (Note it uses the phone's accelerometer for sleep tracking, so be wary your partner/bed may skew data - i haven't studied the effects). You can get some raw data, and it plots some commonly asked datasets. At the very least, it can provide a quick way to collect data and correlate what may cause a lousy night's sleep (beer and D&D for example).

It doesn't embarrass you publicly on Facebook, but I'd personally write that off as a feature.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#44

Post by pixelmask » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:18 PM UTC

I had this roommate in uni with the loudest alarm clock. One day, he hit snooze in the neighborhood of the lower double digits while I was trying to sleep. Hacker fix: turn off the circuit breaker to the room. Sleep ensues.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#45

Post by jrockway » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

graue wrote: post #24

Related article for those trying to rise early: http://zenhabits.net/how-i-became-early-riser/ I found the two most helpful things are to go outside within 10 minutes of waking up (even if it's really cold!) and to focus on going to bed 8-9 hours before I want to wake up, whether sleepy or not.

I don't think any of that is particularly good advice. The best way to adjust is to stay up an hour later every day until you reach your goal. (So if you go to bed at 6am, take two weeks to adjust that to 8pm.)

This avoids any sleepiness during the process, except maybe for that last hour. I did this successfully late last year, but ruined it by volunteering to help out at an overnight hackathon somewhere in the middle. Oh well.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#46

Post by trumbitta2 » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:38 PM UTC

I don't snooze. I set multiple alarms, and turn them off one at a time. Your app can't beat me :D

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#47

Post by dropdownmenu » Sun, Jan 27, 2013, 12:21 AM UTC

My problem with this idea is that I don't care if people on facebook know I hit the snooze button and I figure that they would block such notices as spam anyways.

Why not just have a more annoying alarm clock? Or one that is harder to snooze?

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#48

Post by terhechte » Sun, Jan 27, 2013, 12:21 AM UTC

You need a better icon. Icons are really important on iOS.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#49

Post by ap0rnnstar » Sun, Jan 27, 2013, 1:33 AM UTC

trumbitta2 wrote: post #46

I don't snooze. I set multiple alarms, and turn them off one at a time. Your app can't beat me :D

Hehe, yeah tell me about it. I love how we can always find a way around the kinds of traps =)

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#50

Post by graue » Sun, Jan 27, 2013, 1:37 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #45

graue wrote: post #24

Related article for those trying to rise early: http://zenhabits.net/how-i-became-early-riser/ I found the two most helpful things are to go outside within 10 minutes of waking up (even if it's really cold!) and to focus on going to bed 8-9 hours before I want to wake up, whether sleepy or not.

I don't think any of that is particularly good advice. The best way to adjust is to stay up an hour later every day until you reach your goal. (So if you go to bed at 6am, take two weeks to adjust that to 8pm.) This avoids any sleepiness during the process, except maybe for that last hour. I did this successfully late last year, but ruined it by volunteering to help out at an overnight hackathon somewhere in the midd…

Seriously? So to start waking up at 6 instead of 9, you should take a 3 week vacation and turn your schedule entirely upside down? Sounds a lot more disruptive than just sleeping/waking 15 minutes earlier each day for a while.