I had to scroll horizontally, and the text input boxes are not exactly in the surrounding block.
I am using Safari 3.
My YC submitted company - Thoughts or suggestions
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#22I had to scroll horizontally, and the text input boxes are not exactly in the surrounding block. I am using Safari 3.
hi
thanks... it is not compatible for MAC yet.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'm sorry, and I really hope I'm not the first person to tell you this, but I just don't think this is a very good idea. I just can't see why anyone would ever want to use a Social Alarm Clock. I don't like waking up anyways, being Social isn't going to make it better. If there is one time when I am fine having absolutely no social interaction, it is in the 10 seconds a day when I wake up. I don't want to do any of t…
Thanks for your comments!
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#24It's like!.. a cellphone.
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#25Great thank you so much for your feedback. It's a big help! Here is a full summary... Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock is an alarm clock social network, where upon the alarm time passing on the site(mobile versions soon) you are awakened by your alarm messages(audio files or voice-mail) received from your friends on the network. It is themed around the human conditions of resting and waking where user environments a…
Tanked my back button as soon as I tried to back out of the first page.
I'm going to chime in and say that this doesn't seem like a very good idea. Of all the things to cram into the social trend, waking me up seems like the worst. I cannot see any reason to let my friends wake me up, or for that matter anything other than my cell phone alarm clock.
Others have suggested a FB app, but even that seems like something I would never use. Just my two cents.
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#26Great thank you so much for your feedback. It's a big help! Here is a full summary... Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock is an alarm clock social network, where upon the alarm time passing on the site(mobile versions soon) you are awakened by your alarm messages(audio files or voice-mail) received from your friends on the network. It is themed around the human conditions of resting and waking where user environments a…
The back button problem is on the main splash page. It looks like you are doing some kind of javascript redirection. So there are actually two entries in history. When you go back one page in history, it jumps forward again.
Incidentally, there have been several related products in recent years. Someone (maybe Sharper Image?) was selling an alarm clock that supported downloadable alarm sounds. I don't remember exactly, but I think it worked like those digital picture frames. That's not to say that you couldn't do it better. But I think your biggest issue may be that most people don't sleep next to their computer.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'm sorry, and I really hope I'm not the first person to tell you this, but I just don't think this is a very good idea. I just can't see why anyone would ever want to use a Social Alarm Clock. I don't like waking up anyways, being Social isn't going to make it better. If there is one time when I am fine having absolutely no social interaction, it is in the 10 seconds a day when I wake up. I don't want to do any of t…
I think there's something there, but probably not in its current form, as rms says. I think it's probably misleading to call it an alarm clock, since people associate it with waking up. Yeah, unless you're hot, I don't want you waking me up. Reminders might be a better metaphor.
I have a friend who doesn't keep track of anything, and relies on his girlfriend to tell him when to do what. Whether this is a good way to go about a relationship is debatable, I can see how you'd set alarms for people to do something because it's important to you, rather than the person executing it. Say like, "pick up groceries at 5pm", but send it at 5pm so he has no excuse not to remember.
Happy birthdays wishes. "hey how did the date go?" messages right after your friend's date. "how did that pitch go?" messages after your colleague got devoured by VC's. What's in common is that you sent the message at the time you remembered, and they received it at a time when it's relevant to them, while you might be out golfing at the time. You can seem thoughtful at the moment it's relevant to the receiver of the alarm message, and when it's convenient to you.
Or you can send messages to your future self (say 5 years later), so you'd get messages from your past self saying, "this is what I want to do by the time I'm your age. Have you done them yet?" Or you send friends messages later on saying "I was really mad that you ate my ice cream last sat, but I was too shy to say anything at the time."
I think it's probably worth exploring what you can do with asynchronous messages that don't get delivered immediately, cuz that's essentially what it is. Limiting it to just messages you can send for waking is limiting, but perhaps not as easy to sell to people otherwise.
While widgetizing it is one way to go, I think this best fits on a mobile app of some sort. Mobile devices are seen as personal extensions of self. This sort of thing falls under that category.
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#28No offense, but that is the worst idea I've ever seen in my entire life. Nobody in the whole world would ever want to use that.
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#29No offense, but that is the worst idea I've ever seen in my entire life. Nobody in the whole world would ever want to use that.
Thanks for your input! Not everyone will enjoy this, but we hear both sides of the fence.
Sleep.FM was a semi-finalist for TechCrunch40 and recently chosen out of 20 companies(they pick 6) to present to a crowd of 400 where Microsoft and Facebook will be present.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, and I really hope I'm not the first person to tell you this, but I just don't think this is a very good idea. I just can't see why anyone would ever want to use a Social Alarm Clock. I don't like waking up anyways, being Social isn't going to make it better. If there is one time when I am fine having absolutely no social interaction, it is in the 10 seconds a day when I wake up. I don't want to do any of t…
I think there's something there, but probably not in its current form, as rms says. I think it's probably misleading to call it an alarm clock, since people associate it with waking up. Yeah, unless you're hot, I don't want you waking me up. Reminders might be a better metaphor. I have a friend who doesn't keep track of anything, and relies on his girlfriend to tell him when to do what. Whether this is a good way to…
Yes, we have a Windows Mobile prototype working and it will be finished soon. iPhone in Feb. when they release their SDK.
We definitely are aware of of other uses of The Social Alarm and will be detailing that in a presentation on Tuesday.
There are a ton of things to be done by meshing the alarm clock(or an audio alert system if you prefer to classify it as such) with the Internet. We plan on implementing a lot more to this concept!
Again, thank you everyone for your comments and honesty!