Luna – Hack your sleep • Hacker News Board

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:01 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #19

I know the founding team (3 out of 4 are Italians like me, all living in SF), and as a disclaimer, I am an early angel investor in the company. I have tried the product in its alpha version, and have followed the progress thus far. I think that what Luna is trying to achieve is extremely important. In fact, I have decided to invest because I thought that improving someone's sleep is going to have a huge impact in his…

Simone, you are our favorite (and first!) investor:)

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by dchuk » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:02 PM UTC

How much does the efficacy of this device dip when you share a king sized bed with your significant other and two 25-ish pound dogs?

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by ClayM » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

dchuk wrote: post #22

How much does the efficacy of this device dip when you share a king sized bed with your significant other and two 25-ish pound dogs?

kick the dogs off! i'm sure they aren't helping you sleep :)

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

geoelectric wrote: post #9

Anyone know how the alarm works? I've been using a vibrate-only alarm on Sleep Cycle with the phone under my bottom sheet to avoid waking my partner. Can this be configured in the same way somehow?

We currently don't have a built-in motor for the vibration, currently we are using the phone as an alarm, informed by the data coming from Luna.

We have an experimental feature that consists in gradually increasing the volume of the alarm sound till we notice you are waking up: the goal is to keep it just loud enough to wake you up but not your partner. This is obviously assuming your phone sits on a nightstand on your side of the bed.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

slewis wrote: post #4

Shawn from Beep here. We're super pumped to be integrating with these guys. As someone who wakes up almost every single night either overheating or freezing this product is near and dear to my heart and I personally can't wait to get mine.

We are really looking forward to working with you guys!

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by azdle » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

If any of the creators are reading this, is there any chance you're going to be making this in a hacker-friendly way? I've been contemplating making something sorta like this myself (although much less ambitious) and I'd really like to be able to integrate it into other smart things that I have going in my house.

Also, just out of curiosity, what are you using for the WiFi connectivity? I've been playing with a bunch or the new embedded stuff and like to know what people are actually using.

EDIT: Also, cool, I was the one to push it over 100K: "You raised the campaign total to: $100,008!" I feel special.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by UrMomReadsHN » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:08 PM UTC

maghis wrote: post #18

UrMomReadsHN wrote: post #14

How does the sleep phase sensor work? I'm assuming it can't read brainwaves...

We use ballistocardiography (aka a big less sensitive microphone) to pick up movements, breathing and heart rate through the bed sheets.

Interesting. Has this been compared to EEG for accuracy? I can't imagine it to be very accurate. I'm really curious because as far as I understand anything that isn't EEG is pretty much useless.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by dchuk » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

ClayM wrote: post #23

dchuk wrote: post #22

How much does the efficacy of this device dip when you share a king sized bed with your significant other and two 25-ish pound dogs?

kick the dogs off! i'm sure they aren't helping you sleep :)

ha I'll let you take that up with them directly...

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

yawz wrote: post #7

Pity I didn't hear about it before it came on Hacker News. King size is sold out! :( Anyone knows about other similar initiatives?

Just the early bird is sold out, you should be able to get the regular indiegogo price (still 20% off retail).

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

dchuk wrote: post #22

How much does the efficacy of this device dip when you share a king sized bed with your significant other and two 25-ish pound dogs?

That's the problem I have with sleep trackers like the apps on phones or Pebble. They worked great when I was single. Now I'm married with a dog and a cat, and suddenly the graph is basically a straight line of something constantly moving throughout the night.