Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction • Hacker News Board

Re: Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction

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Post by aaron695 » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

thirduncle wrote: post #27

rkangel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That comment is even less helpful than saying "It's actually quite easy to break your addiction to alchohol - just don't drink". The reason it's even less helpful is that, unlike alcohol, smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life.

Smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life. Do they now?

Actually it was this statement that was incorrect and misses exactly what the phone problem is -

> unlike alcohol, smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life.

Many many people meet and get to know friends and partners with alcohol. Many people do business over alcohol. Many people would suicide without alcohol (A lot of people use it for self medication)

Alcohol has a huge functionality, but they missed the connection because it's negatives are well know.

An interesting question is, without either would the world currently be a better place.

Another interesting question is do they positively push the world forward while doing harm currently.

But both are hypothetical, neither is going away, what we do need to do is not say just don't use them and instead work on harm minimisation.

Re: Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction

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Post by SuperPaintMan » Wed, May 23, 2018, 4:38 PM UTC

andrewmd wrote: post #56

SuperPaintMan wrote: post #52

I've been using this as my launcher for the last few weeks, it's actually pretty good at what it advertises to do. This mixed with a blocking app, greyscale and the Messenger Lite have made my device a semi-smart. The last page of the launcher randomizes everytime you swipe over to it so that's super handy. Notifs every 20 minutes has literally changed how I use my device allowing me to balance group chats vs constan…

Thanks for sharing this feedback! Check out today's update: we now offer a dark theme and ability to set custom wallpaper :) We also let you select apps that may interrupt you during Tempo (Settings > Control notifications). We need to do a better job of making users aware of this. More customizations to come - feel free to send over any suggestions to feedback@siempo.co

You're the man, man! Keep up the great work :)

Re: Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction

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Post by on_and_off » Wed, May 23, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

andrei_says_ wrote: post #60

on_and_off wrote: post #49

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I suspect Android is pushing more and more in that direction. I have not seen it in the announcements but one of the features I sea on the P beta is that when I dismiss a notification, the OS might ask me : 'you often display these notification, should I continue displaying them ?' The groundwork is here with the channel API anyway. Apps can declare as many channels as they want in order to post notifications there.…

The thing is, not all content in a channel is created equal, so maybe one day we’ll see a more granular approach. But a more granular approach means more complex configuration. Instagram should notify me about my fiancee’s feed. FB messenger should notify me when I get a message from my company’s page or one containing a family emergency. When I leave the office priorities would swap. I should be able to easily sched…

the API is also there for that :)

A dev can dynamically create channels.

Communication apps is the best application indeed, some of them (for example TelegramX) already leverage this by creating one channel for each of your contacts.

So my gf has an 'interrupts do not disturb' rule while my noisy friend on a time zone can't make my phone ping.

Now it is up to devs to leverage this and implement this in all the apps.

If it starts to become common enough, it looks like an AI could classify these signals based on how you interact with them.