My knee-jerk reaction to this was at first laughter, followed by a deep sense of loathing as I dug deeper into whatever this site is supposed to be. This is fucking appalling. In some respects I might, -might- be able to get behind the idea of "meditation" as "SaaS" but for the most part I find this borderline insulting.
Meditate in front of your computer with Calm
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#22Unusually well done, especially the guided sessions.
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#23Switching between the scenes is terribly slow; a thumbnail based selection would be a smoother experience.
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#24I like the images. Seems like something you'd see on those wall screens of the future. Is there a business model for this, possibly subscription based in the future? They have job postings: http://www.calm.com/jobs "We're a small start-up with a big mission: to reduce stress and increase calm in an increasingly stressed-out world. We're just starting out, and we're looking for talented and driven folks to join us. On…
Their IOS app is subscription based. You pay for different themes on the guided meditation such as sleep or anxiety.
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#25Apparently, they raised $415K investment http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/relaxation-resource-calm-co... I wonder how they will pay it all off
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#26Must have some money behind them to snag that domain name!
Yeah I was just thinking that. It must have cost a crazy amount.
In an interview last year with the creator, Alex Tew, Jason Calacanis guessed $50-75k and it sounded like that was a little low.
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#27what kind of meditation needs (or is helped) by this?
i kind-of do mindful meditation (i'm no expert) and this would be just one more piece of sensory data to acknowledge and then largely ignore.
if you're doing "concentrative meditation" (i'm using terms from wikipedia) then i would have thought this would be distracting.
is this more like new age tv?
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#28Must have some money behind them to snag that domain name!
Yeah I was just thinking that. It must have cost a crazy amount.
From the founder of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
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#29My knee-jerk reaction to this was at first laughter, followed by a deep sense of loathing as I dug deeper into whatever this site is supposed to be. This is fucking appalling. In some respects I might, -might- be able to get behind the idea of "meditation" as "SaaS" but for the most part I find this borderline insulting.
I think you might have some stress in your life.
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#30This is similar to http://www.getsomeheadspace.com which is based on a subscription model and a mobile app. The app is free and provides 10 sessions of 10 minutes each. If you like calm.com, try www.getsomeheadspace.com for a very good alternative.