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Show HN: Like Headspace, but free forever
- ramblerman 6y agoI know it's a bit low-brow to advertise other products on launch posts, but headspace never worked for me, beyond a week or two. What finally got me into the habit was Sam Harris' waking up course. The non religious angle, removing all the wishy washy stuff, and just varying the angles at which to tackle the problem. I highly recommend it, specially for the HN crowd who are probably more like me.
- tectonic 6y agoAgreed! I've been really enjoying Waking Up.
- scouech 6y agoWe are taking the same approach with this. Waking up is great, just expensive. We have more content coming soon, in the same area than Waking Up (more philosophical etc)
- interestica 6y agoRe: "worked". What was your goal?
- sAbakumoff 6y agoI have been using insight timer free version for years and really happy with my experience!
- scouech 6y agothat's great to hear! We are basically building something similar to Insight Timer, but totally free. With more refined content, and with a clear path for new comers :)
- geoelectric 6y agoI subscribe to Headspace and like it OK, but I definitely subscribe because I like that particular dude's voice and it's a positive trigger for me now. Otherwise there's nothing particularly special about them compared to Insight Timer or any other mature service. This looks cool, but it's also the most direct advertisement I've seen on HN.
- scouech 6y ago> This looks cool, but it's also the most direct advertisement I've seen on HN. Thank you :) We have some more content coming soon, a lot more sleep stuff too. A content apps like headspace don't have + CC content too from different mental health organizations
- geoelectric 6y agoFor what it's worth, I'd have been more positive about your post if the website weren't solely a meditation blog and a link to the app stores with very little info on the app itself. I like checking out apps via Show HN -- via their websites or technical blog posts. I'm not generally going to up someone's download count from one of these posts by actually spending time with the app before I'm introduced to it.
- scouech 6y agoThat's good to know! We will improve the website at some point. We are all volunteers, so help is welcome :)
- anthonybennis 6y agoI subscribe for the very same reason. I only listen to the recordings of the founders voice. The rest, especially the American (sorry) accent I find less soothing.
- scouech 6y agoWe have a a voice actor (American), someone who isn't a voice actor (British), and we have more voices coming soon (British, female). :) We want to make sure there is a variety of voices to satisfy everyone
- interestica 6y agoCurious that searching the term "medito" in the play store found nothing. Makes it hard for word-of-mouth referral. I'm in the Canadian store if that is helpful.
- scouech 6y agohey! We had a problem with indexing on Monday. So it will take a few days to list it properly. It's a bit annoying.. If you search for "Medito Foundation" it should show up! Sorry about that
- valuearb 6y agoWhat’s wrong with charging for a valuable service?
- anoncake 6y agoPeople with a limited budget don't use it, which makes the service less useful.
- valuearb 6y agoCorrection: It’s not valuable enough for people on a limited budget.
- alok-g 6y agoThe benefit they could derive is perhaps the same. However, they cannot prioritize it the same way as others with a higher budget.
- anoncake 6y agoThose in bad mental health benefit from meditation more than others and poorer people tend to be in worse mental health. So those with a limited budget actually derive more benefit.
- anoncake 6y agoA service you can't use is useless to you. So a service fewer people can use is less useful. Even if everyone prioritized the service above other things, the things they forego become useless to them – a side effect attributable to charging money.
- scouech 6y agoIf something is valuable, it shouldn't be restricted those with money. We aren't stopping people for charging for a service like that, we just want to offer what those paid services offer, but for free.
- wdb 6y agoCurious why it's a Dutch organisation seems most members are non-Dutch. Tax reasons?
- _lessthan0 6y agoHi, I see the permissions list and its small enough to be comfortable with. How is my data going to be used?
- scouech 6y agoHey! The current privacy policy is available via the play store or app store, and here: https://meditofoundation.org/privacy https://meditofoundation.org/privacy We don't use Google or any other third parties for data collection. For analytics purposes and improvements, we use our own, independent service thanks to an open-source tool called "Matomo". What we collect: Your location (not 100% accurate, but at least we know your country, and area you are using our products from) The operating system you are using Your device's size How many times you have been using the app What you did in the app (where you have tapped, what you have listened to for example) and for how long. This service does not share your data with third parties. The data is not shared with, or sold to anyone. The data is anonymized, meaning we don't know your name, IP address, or any personal information about you.