"Now focus on your body. This is you, alive and present."
Wow - this punched me very hard. I have a mild case of depersonalization and those words really affected me. I'll use this daily.
Meditate in front of your computer with Calm
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#52On the iPhone, calm.com takes you directly to the App Store page without even prompting. You can try going to the deeloper's website from there, BUT that takes you to their Facebook page. From there it links back to calm.com. Worst. Experience. Ever. And I haven't even downloaded the app yet!
Lucky. On Android it just says the app isn't ready yet. My guess is they want to herd users to the mobile app right away, rather than manage both the app and optimized website for mobile.
What's annoying for me was that I was redirected to the "sign up for when the app is released" page, but if I fake the user agent I get a very nice, very usable calm.com that works out of the box with my phone.
Why, why must you force me towards your app? At max, serve the web page first, then suggest the app to me.
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#53I've read about meditation, and a consensus I'd seen was that you're not doing it right if you need an external aid. You're supposed to learn to do it on your own entirely.
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#54Very cool, and well-executed.
Not to mean to nitpick, but am I the only one who thought it felt jarring to hear an outdoor babbling brook, while looking at the surface of the water from... below? Both the videos and audio are spectacular on their own, but I'm not sure they always match up quite well enough. :)
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#55I 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…
Wow, I love the irony.
Perhaps I'm having a dumb day. Where's the irony?
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#56That's awesome. Just yesterday I did a web search and Hacker news search for this exact thing, and now boom, you've delivered! Great UI, awesome background activity, relaxing music, timers -- exactly what I was looking for. Well executed! On the practical front: How are you a company? What's your mission? Purpose? Business model?
Hmmm interesting, so what are you searching for today?
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#58Actually, integrate this with some kind of consumer-grade portable EEG to monitor progress and I'll be the first person to give you my money.
we're launching this with www.brainbot.me -- ping me rohan@brainbot.me for details!
I'm quite happy to see that wheels are already in motion on something like this. Pinging you.
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#60My 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.
What do you have against Serenity-as-a-Service?