Is that a bug? The Eris in the middle is showing 8:10-:8:30am as the answer to waking up by 2:39pm?
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#12If I were a Wakemate pre-order, I wouldn't be happy to see three mobile apps before anyone shipped me my device. The Wakemate team seems dedicated and smart, but as an outside observer watching the it all unfold, their communications skills are sorely lacking. Hopefully a great product will overcome in the end. edit: On second thought, they have got to be just crazy. How is it possibly the right idea to have three un…
I suspect that the wakemates themselves aren't doing the mobile dev work, but are outsourcing it and spending their time on the difficult stuff - getting the hardware operational and approved. In that case, if you've got the money, why not get them all developed simultaneously?
The reason you don't do all simultaneously is they all will likely suck, and then you have to redo three apps instead of one.
I would think you would want to do one mobile app just right, and then port it to other platforms. You might do a spec for all three up front so you think through each platform, but why not push one platform, iterate, and then take what you've learned before building?
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#13If I were a Wakemate pre-order, I wouldn't be happy to see three mobile apps before anyone shipped me my device. The Wakemate team seems dedicated and smart, but as an outside observer watching the it all unfold, their communications skills are sorely lacking. Hopefully a great product will overcome in the end. edit: On second thought, they have got to be just crazy. How is it possibly the right idea to have three un…
I preordered when it was announced earlier this year and they said that they would support both iPhone and Android phones on the sales page, and possibly Blackberry (I'm not 100% on BB). Today's post wasn't to announce that they are doing 3 apps, its to show they are working. Why do you think they should not of worked on all 3 platforms at once? For the sake of a minimum viable product?
See my response to the other commenter's similar comment... but yeah, basically so you start with a good MVP instead of three products based on preconceived notions about users.
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#14If I were a Wakemate pre-order, I wouldn't be happy to see three mobile apps before anyone shipped me my device. The Wakemate team seems dedicated and smart, but as an outside observer watching the it all unfold, their communications skills are sorely lacking. Hopefully a great product will overcome in the end. edit: On second thought, they have got to be just crazy. How is it possibly the right idea to have three un…
The time consuming part is probably getting the HW manufactured. Why not code up the software for multiple platforms while waiting on that? I think covering both iPhone and Android is a pretty good move.
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#15If I were a Wakemate pre-order, I wouldn't be happy to see three mobile apps before anyone shipped me my device. The Wakemate team seems dedicated and smart, but as an outside observer watching the it all unfold, their communications skills are sorely lacking. Hopefully a great product will overcome in the end. edit: On second thought, they have got to be just crazy. How is it possibly the right idea to have three un…
The time consuming part is probably getting the HW manufactured. Why not code up the software for multiple platforms while waiting on that? I think covering both iPhone and Android is a pretty good move.
I am not a hardware guy, but the few pieces of hardware I've seen ordered took a week to get a run of 100 test units, they spent two weeks working some bugs out, then put in an order of 1000 which came a week after placing the order.
This was done out of a shop in the US, not sure what it is like doing production runs overseas, but I can't imagine it's much slower.
This of course ignores the time spent designing/redesigning units, however, ordering batches of something from a manufacturer doesn't take long.
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#16You know, I'm sure the Wakemate product is going to be stellar and really useful. I can't help thinking they've made a mistake in their approach though - everything I have seen from them has promised more, even this which has actual "stuff" on show promises bigger and better. They should have: a) waited till they had the physical product reasonably ready for distribution before announcing. All the hype from the intia…
You're totally right - they're doing the exact opposite of "underpromise and overdeliver".
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#17Call my cynical but my impression of this is that when I pre-ordered they must have literally had nothing done. I understanding some of the tricks you might pull to perform customer validation but their approach seems unambiguously disingenuous in hindsight...
correct,they had nothing at pre-order time. Minimal Viable Product for hardware.
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#18Great to see a sign of life from wakemate, now let's hope stay awake and keep updating, say a small progress report once every two weeks or so.
At that level the time invested is manageable and you keep your customers in the loop.
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#19Any plans for an API?
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#20Call my cynical but my impression of this is that when I pre-ordered they must have literally had nothing done. I understanding some of the tricks you might pull to perform customer validation but their approach seems unambiguously disingenuous in hindsight...
correct,they had nothing at pre-order time. Minimal Viable Product for hardware.
Minimal Viable Product for hardware == "concept"?