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I disagree with the comments saying that the purpose is unclear -- I understood immediately -- but this just seems like begging for being the butt of practical jokes. I don't want to wake up to getting rickrolled, and I don't want to not get woken up because somebody chose John Cage's 4:33 as my alarm message.
I disagree with the comments saying that the purpose is unclear -- I understood immediately -- but this just seems like begging for being the butt of practical jokes. I don't want to wake up to getting rickrolled, and I don't want to not get woken up because somebody chose John Cage's 4:33 as my alarm message.
I only allow few people to send me alarm messages, like my g/f who is away at school and some of my family members who are sure not to RickRoll me.
Well, without signing up, I don't really get it. Maybe you'd care to explain it to us in a few lines? A few things of note though: 1) Breaks the back button on my browser. That's a no no 2) The splash image takes way too long to load.
Since you asked for thoughts + suggestions, here are mine: I totally agree on all three points of the parent to this post (wtf is it, don't break my back button, and why is the bg so beastly). The only keys that could give me some context don't really make any sense: "sleep and wake up social network" - huh? alarm messages - what? Vertical and horizontal scroll bars on my maxed-out browser window - why? No chair at t…
Why does an alarm clock have to be a social networking site? This seems to be a rather utilitarian thing that works perfectly fine via the multiple alarm clocks I already own. All of my friends would use a service like this to mess with me, if I gave them privileges to wake me up. I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to abuse it if the roles were reversed.
OK, I really don't understand the point. Can you explain to me several different user cases for your site? How many people out there do you think will want to use your sleep.fm? Why does an alarm clock have to be a social networking site? This seems to be a rather utilitarian thing that works perfectly fine via the multiple alarm clocks I already own. All of my friends would use a service like this to mess with me, i…
Yes, this definitely can be used for practical jokes(which some may enjoy and others not, but either way it's something both parties will talk about). Practical jokes aside, we have used Sleep.FM' Social Alarm Clock to send...
- Happy Birthday alarm messages - Messages detailing an important meeting has moved to an earlier time - My colleague's cousin in Iraq being awakened by his kids alarm messages - My friends(newlyweds) who have different sleep schedules waking each other up
The Social Alarm Clock has been wrapped around a modern concept(a social network), one that allows users to regulate who sends them alarm messages, as well as upload alarm message to their Sleep.FM friends. As a social network there more ways to monetize users, as if you look at lone applications like Skype and Twitter they are challenged in this regards!
How does it deal with different time zones?
OK, I really don't understand the point. Can you explain to me several different user cases for your site? How many people out there do you think will want to use your sleep.fm? Why does an alarm clock have to be a social networking site? This seems to be a rather utilitarian thing that works perfectly fine via the multiple alarm clocks I already own. All of my friends would use a service like this to mess with me, i…
Sleep.FM is introducing a new form of communication that further enhances our always connected digital society. The always connected generation enjoys IM, Voip, Email, Social Networking, Twitter, text messaging, chat rooms, lifecasting and now they can start off their mornings providing each other with personal greetings, pertinent information or having fun with one another through alarm clock messaging. Yes, this de…
I think there are some ways you could adapt this to be more viable but in its current form it just really isn't going to work. If you want to go forward with this idea, I would recommend widget'izing it, this is one function that would be more useful integrated into an existing social network.
Also, I don't think very many people have a computer sitting next to them to use as an alarm clock.