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I like click games and believe your RAM is sitting useless on your desktop.

So I made one.

You don’t need to build an app. You can use the built in Shortcuts app.

create a shortcut that turns off all alarms. Can have it read your calendar or whatever as signal to determine if alarms should be on/off for a certain day/time and have it run at a regular schedule.

hey - great question i used whoops journalling feature for several montths.

what I found was that it often throws 5+ variables into one “correlation”, creating a lot of noise where it ends up suggesting X impacting your sleep, when it could have actually been Y.

Pulse is built for n=1 experiments: you isolate a habit (like less screen time, consistent wake up time, caffeine impact), test it, and see if it actually helps your sleep better or not. think self-controlled studies

Hey HN, I’m Mani - Co-Founder & CTO @ Pulse.

This started from my own burnout trying to optimize performance. I tracked everything, changed habits constantly, got a bunch of wearables, but could never figure out what was working vs wasn't.

Most devices just give you a score based on some generic/population model and leave you to figure it out. They treat everyone like an average.

With Pulse, we wanted to build something different -- a way to actually test what works for your body in real life.

Happy to answer questions about the tech, hardware, or what it took to get from idea to (almost) shipping

I do this. I leave my code in a state where it wont compile. So the next day just hitting build will highlight where i left off - which makes it easy to get started, which makes it easier to move to the next thing.

I love this. Particularly, I have terrible recall of things I wanted to do. I would like to install cameras in my home (at least in the kitchen and by the front door), so that I can do things like: - next time I'm making chicken remind me to use this new recipe - remind me to take shopping bags / umbrella etc as im leaving the house (based on weather lookup/my calendar lookup)

I prefer installing things from App Store on my parents' computers cause it will handle automatic updates and provides certain guarantees (i.e. can rely on Apple not letting malware onto their App Store).

I've previously had software engineers on my team who didn't know how to update DNS settings on their computer or what a MAC address was. Not everyone gets into a field out of curiosity.

It's the same as most people knowing how to drive but not being able to rebuild an engine or even replace their own windshield wipers.

But I believe school curriculums should include some exposure to general computing as a way to make everyday life easier.

Do you use a custom location? Or default to ~/Dropbox?

You can always symlink to whatever location Dropbox forces upon you…