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"This item isn't avaible in your country" on the android play store. Any plans to make the app available worldwide?
The hardest part of meditation for me was building the habit. Every time I started to build a practice I either lost interest, had a hard time staying engaged, or simply stopped. What have you done from a dev or design standpoint to help your users build a habit around mindfulness?
Thanks for the AMA!
"This item isn't avaible in your country" on the android play store. Any plans to make the app available worldwide?
Hey there! Thanks for the question. While our mobile apps are not available in some non-English speaking countries, our web app ( http://simplehabitapp.com/ ) is available worldwide. Try it out and let us know what you think!
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Hey there! Thanks for the question. While our mobile apps are not available in some non-English speaking countries, our web app ( http://simplehabitapp.com/ ) is available worldwide. Try it out and let us know what you think!
Honestly, I don't think people would expect the meditations to be available in their native language and having at least access to english ones would be amazing.
At least the website seems to work well on mobile.
Hi Yunha, are there any tangible (e.g. psychological) differences between guided/unguided meditation? What do you prefer more?
1) I love learning new techniques every day and this really motivates me to meditate daily. For instance - This morning, I meditated to Simon Moyes' new year meditation on Simple Habit and I learned how to associate a happy moment with an unhappy moment in my day and that was super interesting. I can't laern new techniques from unguided meditations.
2) When I meditate to a guided meditation, I build a personal relationship with certain meditation teachers (even though it is just through recordings) and this helps me to look forward to meditating daily. Perhaps I feel more accountable for meditating.
Looks simple, great, like something I'd wanna use and later on when I fall into the habit possibly subscribe to. Buuuut, not available in my country. How come it isn't worldwide? Now, I got a bunch of questions: Why don't you link your instagram/twitter from the site? Had to google it which was "ugh" already. How do you pick your teachers? Why do you think you can take the piece of the big player's pie in this market…
1. Thanks for pointing that out! We’re going to link our Instagram/Twitter accounts on our site right away :)
2. We vet top meditation teachers from around the world — most if not all of our teachers have been trained through reputable programs (e.g. Google’s Search Inside Yourself), and teach at top universities and institutes, like the University of Pennsylvania or Columbia University. Teachers who express interest in working with us go through a rigorous vetting process to ensure that we’re consistently onboarding high quality and respected teachers in the space. You can read more here: simplehabitapp.com/teachers
3. You can use Simple Habit's daily reminder feature to set a time for your meditation. Also, Simple Habit is synced with Apple Health under Mindfulness Minutes and can track your daily meditations. A lot of our users use both features and find them helpful.
4. Simple Habit provides a revenue stream for meditation teachers. Subscription prices help both Simple Habit operate its business and meditation teachers making a livelihood :)
Hi Yunha, The hardest part of meditation for me was building the habit. Every time I started to build a practice I either lost interest, had a hard time staying engaged, or simply stopped. What have you done from a dev or design standpoint to help your users build a habit around mindfulness? Thanks for the AMA!
We're all about tackling this challenge (thus the name 'Simple Habit!'). And we do this by making meditations as simple and accessible as possible. Try out the app and you may understand what I mean!
Users also have the ability to get daily reminders to meditate at a certain time of day, and this has been quite effective.
Do you plan do have meditation in multiple languages?
I'm not belittling 'guided meditation', which I assume this app provides and may be a good first step for beginners interested in meditation - but if there's a voice coming out of a speaker giving you suggestions, you're not actually meditating at all.
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Honestly, I don't think people would expect the meditations to be available in their native language and having at least access to english ones would be amazing.
It's not about having them in my native language, it's about having them on my phone as an app instead of a website. At least the website seems to work well on mobile.