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email: sudokill [at] ymail [dot] com
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Comment · 14 years ago
Could you explain why this is strange? To me it just looks like a fractal algorithm.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Dejavu! :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Wow this app doesn't just overlay a moustache image but the moustache actually follows you around in realtime. Never seen this technology before. Awesome!
Comment · 14 years ago
Yeah I agree that privacy is a valid issue. I will think about it some more. Thank you for the feedback!
Comment · 14 years ago
Just fixed the www problem. Turns out I erased aname record and that was causing the problem (I was just following the tutorial by Heroku guys!!)
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! And that totally makes sense. I will add that header message.
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes that would not be difficult, it will be added soon.
Comment · 14 years ago
Oh cool man. This was originally Talk To The Future. I just refined the UI and got a new domain.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for asking.

I think it's more about the message than the alarm itself. The problem I saw with alarms is not that I never hear them, but most of the times I do hear them but just turn it off because that's the only thing you can do with an alarm, right?

But if I can hear a message containing meaningful content, I will listen to it, because that's the intended action. And if that content tells me my todo list for today and helps me realize how busy I am and gives me the sense of urgency, it would be easier to wake up. Because as I mentioned, there are countless times where I regret not waking up and think "Damn if I was able to think rationally while I was sleeping, I would have totally waken up."

Comment · 14 years ago
Great to hear that! Can you elaborate on how it being a timer rather than a clock makes it easy to think about? That might be very useful feedback for me. Thanks!
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes. By the way XHack hackathon was really awesome. Best host ever.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks! Well I think the whole point of WakeMyself is it functions both as an alarm AND as a dream capturing tool, which means, you do know when you wake up--it's the time you set the alarm at. It's quite tricky, but I think there's a subtle but crucial difference between synchronous capturing (phone call) and asynchronous capturing (sms) and that's what makes it work. But maybe it's just me, so please try it out tonight :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Thank you. Yeah the reason that I've made this available for free currently is because I thought if I started out charging I would be fixed with that business model, and I don't even yet know what this can be used for other than my own cases. So I just decided to release it as beta and learn from people. Please do try out and let me know if you have any feedback :)

And about translation, did you mean transcription? or translation as in language translation?

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