weekend project
Consumer and social
sleep calculator
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
1 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.35.
Design: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple and easy to read.
From 2 comments
This is really nice. Simple. Could you make one for parents of infants and toddlers? :)
puj on HNI think the typography and design are easier to read than http://sleeptyi.me, but it is uncomfortably similar wording and navigation if they're not made by the same person.
mshron on HN
Objections
Not mobile-friendly or hard to use on small screens.
From 2 comments
Interesting, I'm currently working myself on a mobile friendly clone of http://sleepyti.me/ Because using either of the two sites is not easy on a small screen. And who has his…
stravid on HN> And who has his laptop with him when lying in bed and checking the wake up time. Me! ^ I'm a poor college student with a dumb phone and a single room. My laptop sits on my…
reemrevnivek on HN
Doesn't account for individual differences in time to fall asleep.
From 3 comments
What if I don't fall asleep exactly when I should? For instance, let's say I had to get up at 8AM. The recommended times are: 11PM 12:30AM 2AM 3:30AM What if I go to bed at 10:40…
ddw on HNIt's not likely I'll go to sleep now. It'll be in half an hour for me personally, it varies between people. You might want to add a box called something like typical time from…
tobylane on HNI think finding your individual recipe for a good night sleep is really important. From what I have read people seem to have their own patterns etc. If the app also had some kind…
tcarnell on HN
Shows US times without locale detection.
From 1 comment
Wow, no locale detection.. telling me what time to go to sleep in US times when I live in Europe is pretty crappy for a web app.
davedx on HN
Idea seems unnecessary.
From 2 comments
dumbest thing i've ever seen. do people really need an app to tell them when to go to bed??
jamesgagan on HNI say call a spade a spade. This is dumb and perhaps only useful to obsessive compulsive individuals who feel some need to micromanage every aspect of their life.
jamesgagan on HN
Requests
Add an alarm app integration.
From 1 comment
What if this was taken one step further and integrated with an alarm app for your phone? That would be a more useful implementation of this idea to me than a web page would be.…
redidas on HN
Mobile-friendly version or text-message interface.
From 2 comments
> And who has his laptop with him when lying in bed and checking the wake up time. Me! ^ I'm a poor college student with a dumb phone and a single room. My laptop sits on my…
reemrevnivek on HNWhat if you text it "Goodnight" and it responds with your alarm times? Easy to use, no data plan, and should be relatively simple to code.
schrieaj on HN
24-hour clock option.
From 1 comment
The form is partly obscured in a narrow window. I'd remove the negative margin-left from #bedtime_calc in the CSS. And 24h clock would be nice.
zokier on HN
Questions
Does the calculator account for time taken to fall asleep?
From 1 comment
What if I don't fall asleep exactly when I should? For instance, let's say I had to get up at 8AM. The recommended times are: 11PM 12:30AM 2AM 3:30AM What if I go to bed at 10:40…
ddw on HN
Alternatives named
sleepyti.me
From 2 comments
Have you seen http://sleepyti.me ?
abailin on HNhttp://sleepyti.me/
mise on HN
Sleep as Android app
From 1 comment
Hope it's OK to post this here, but the "Sleep as a Droid" App, which does what you describe and so much more, really changed my life for the better.…
saibotd on HN
WakeMate
From 1 comment
The YC 09 startup WakeMate (http://wakemate.com/) took this much further: (Edit - Took down my run-on sentence describing them, here's their pitch) The WakeMate is a comfortable…
reemrevnivek on HN