alarmclock

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by alarmclock 15y ago
Thanks again for the comments. I guess the other major selling point is that it's a charging dock. My girlfriend loses and breaks the charging cables so often that I almost wanted to switch phones so she couldn't use my charger any more.
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by alarmclock 15y ago
If we get to really high volumes, we can probably reduce the price. Remember, we're just a small operation working on a launch. Tooling for injection molded parts is pretty expensive. If we ever get up to many thousands of pieces, we may
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Thanks. Very interesting feedback, that's something I didn't think of. You know, a cat's body temperature runs a couple of degrees hotter than humans. I don't think our sensor is quite that narrow in its tuning range to discriminate betw
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Yes, and for the people that don't seem to mind that approach, please go ahead and try it out. Personally, I can't imagine setting up the phone on my bed every night or under my pillow. We really think our charging dock with included moti
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Sorry, but we don't consider a few posts on a site dedicated to news about projects and requesting feedback to be spam.
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Yes, the SleepCycle App does use motion too. In fact, I had that idea before they did, but I didn't want to require the user to put the phone on the bed. That seemed really kludgy to me, so that's why I continued on my original path of em
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Thanks. We've found the best placement to be towards your face and head. When you turn your head, it detects that really well. So, as long as your pet doesn't sleep on your face or pillow, we think you should be able to set it up so it s
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Technically easy, yes. But Global Bluetooth certification is prohibitively expensive. We chose to make it an iPhone accessory, because we think it makes a lot of sense to have a nightstand charging dock (which is where most of the cost co
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Thanks. Those are the kinds of features we expect to put in our App too. I have even bigger plans for the App in fact, but I don't want to give away all my secrets here, because some of them can be copied. But, I'll just say that it's go
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by alarmclock 15y ago
I don't think we can add the hammer or the electric-shock, but we can certainly add a virtual metal-plate in front of the snooze button, and we can even make it so you have to answer a question or type in a code to release it. We can try t
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by alarmclock 15y ago
One cool thing we can add to the app is all the features you just described about multiple alarms and snooze options or screen-lock codes or whatever. We can have a mode where it starts off kind of quiet and gets louder, or maybe you want
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by alarmclock 15y ago
The stand-alone app seems pretty popular, but we really don't like the idea of putting the phone under your pillow or on the corner of your bed every night. The charging cords are never long enough, you may not hear your alarm, and the sys
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Also, regarding the aesthetics, maybe we can round the corners a bit more on the final design. Do you think that would be enough, or are you suggesting an entirely different shape? We probably don't want to change the whole shape, since o
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by alarmclock 15y ago
We just got the same comment on the Kickstarter page. Here's my response: Thanks for your comment. Yeah we thought of that too, and thought that it might be necessary to solve the problem of how it detects you and not your partner. But,
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by alarmclock 15y ago
It does -- this was very important to us as well. By adjusting the location of the dock on your nightstand, you can position the sensor so it will only see your body movements. In addition, the App provides a setup screen, which allows you
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by alarmclock 15y ago
Would appreciate ANY feedback from the HN community!
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Show HN: A smarter alarm clock.(kck.st)
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