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Re: My YC submitted company - Thoughts or suggestions

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Post by rksprst »

No offense...

The site looks horrible, graphics aren't pleasing. I don't like the background picture, nor do I like anything else design wise. I simply won't use a website that looks like that.

It requires plug-ins to be installed (and I don't trust your site enough to have it install the plug-ins).

I think that idea is pretty bad. Instead, maybe have a facebook app that sends wake-up reminders (with permission from the receiver) via SMS or something similar.

How are you going to make money off this idea, I'm pretty sure no company is going to want to buy you out.

Also, don't put a TM symbol in your logo unless you actually have a trademark on that logo (which I highly doubt that you do).

What are those scrolling images on the front page? What has that got to do with anything?

Re: My YC submitted company - Thoughts or suggestions

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Post by seren6ipity »

ryanspahn wrote: post #30
iamwil wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"Audio Alert System" is impressive and it can be used to represent the various ideas you want to integrate in your website.

Re: My YC submitted company - Thoughts or suggestions

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Post by seren6ipity »

rksprst wrote: post #31

No offense... The site looks horrible, graphics aren't pleasing. I don't like the background picture, nor do I like anything else design wise. I simply won't use a website that looks like that. It requires plug-ins to be installed (and I don't trust your site enough to have it install the plug-ins). I think that idea is pretty bad. Instead, maybe have a facebook app that sends wake-up reminders (with permission from…

:-) I liked the background picture since it is perfect night setup and goes along with the utility - alarm clock.

Re: My YC submitted company - Thoughts or suggestions

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Post by mattmaroon »

ryanspahn wrote: post #29
mattmaroon wrote: post #28

No 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.

That's because people in The Valley have no concept of what the other 99.9% of the population wants. They see a novel concept where most Americans will get woken up once when they didn't want to and be nothing but annoyed.

Also your video at http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=5DA53674478211DCAE95000423CF3... should be the moment of zen on the daily show.

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