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My WakeMate: 1 year, 4 months, 12 days in the making.

12 points by pclark 16y ago

dawson 16y ago
You do not have exceedingly manly wrists, though I agree with the rest of the post :)
thehodge 16y ago
I'm in the UK and still waiting for mine to be available, they sent an email a month or two back saying I could order but retracted it 10 minutes later :(
- citricsquid 16y ago
  http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/04/wakemate-is-shipping-internationally/ http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/04/wakemate-is-shipping-int... :-D
- pclark 16y ago
  I am in the UK :)
- donall 16y ago
  I am based in Ireland. I pre-ordered my Wakemate ages ago and when they finally became available, I had mine shipped to my sister in the USA, who then forwarded it to me. It worked out quite well (despite an additional 2 weeks of my sister's procrastination!) and I'm very happy with it.
ChaseB 16y ago
Description from OP "Inspecting the WakeMate bracelet, it’s nice. I have exceedingly manly wrists thanks primarily to YouPorn and long nights of StarCraft 2, and the fit of the bracelet is snug."
citricsquid 16y ago
I was going to order one of these last year but being in the UK I wouldn't have got it, with the announcement a few days ago I backordered one and should have it within a month I think. I look forward to this guys review of the actual products usefulness, he has a nice writing style. Also with regards to the icon, reminds me of something I made a while ago: http://i.imgur.com/8uOVh.png http://i.imgur.com/8uOVh.png for a subreddit style.
alexsb92 16y ago
I don't know about the rest of you but I didn't expect the packaging to be any better. Let's be honest, while the packaging will be nice to see when the product arrives, after that one initial time it probably doesn't serve much of a purpose. Plus this is a hardware start-up. I'm working at one and our packaging is actually the same, except instead of the WakeMate we obviously have our product. As far as I'm concerned I'd rather have a startup spend all of it's time and resources into the product they are building, because that's what will matter in the end anyway, since the first few thousand users will be early adopters and plain geeks who won't be interested with the box anyway. I mean it's not like the Apple I was a sexy beast or anything. When you get to version 2.0 or get a bigger cash stash, then you switch to fancy packaging. I also hate it when people say they rarely dreams, but that's just a pet peeve of mine. You always do, you just don't remember it. As a matter of fact you have multiple dreams a night. It's in fact quite great if you are able to perform lucid dreaming, as that gives you a bit more time to think about whatever issues you are dealing with.

12 points by pclark 16y ago

You do not have exceedingly manly wrists, though I agree with the rest of the post :)

I'm in the UK and still waiting for mine to be available, they sent an email a month or two back saying I could order but retracted it 10 minutes later :(

citricsquid 16y ago
http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/04/wakemate-is-shipping-internationally/ http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/04/wakemate-is-shipping-int... :-D
pclark 16y ago
I am in the UK :)
donall 16y ago
I am based in Ireland. I pre-ordered my Wakemate ages ago and when they finally became available, I had mine shipped to my sister in the USA, who then forwarded it to me. It worked out quite well (despite an additional 2 weeks of my sister's procrastination!) and I'm very happy with it.

ChaseB 16y ago

Description from OP "Inspecting the WakeMate bracelet, it’s nice. I have exceedingly manly wrists thanks primarily to YouPorn and long nights of StarCraft 2, and the fit of the bracelet is snug."

citricsquid 16y ago

I was going to order one of these last year but being in the UK I wouldn't have got it, with the announcement a few days ago I backordered one and should have it within a month I think. I look forward to this guys review of the actual products usefulness, he has a nice writing style. Also with regards to the icon, reminds me of something I made a while ago: http://i.imgur.com/8uOVh.png http://i.imgur.com/8uOVh.png for a subreddit style.

alexsb92 16y ago

I don't know about the rest of you but I didn't expect the packaging to be any better. Let's be honest, while the packaging will be nice to see when the product arrives, after that one initial time it probably doesn't serve much of a purpose. Plus this is a hardware start-up. I'm working at one and our packaging is actually the same, except instead of the WakeMate we obviously have our product. As far as I'm concerned I'd rather have a startup spend all of it's time and resources into the product they are building, because that's what will matter in the end anyway, since the first few thousand users will be early adopters and plain geeks who won't be interested with the box anyway. I mean it's not like the Apple I was a sexy beast or anything. When you get to version 2.0 or get a bigger cash stash, then you switch to fancy packaging. I also hate it when people say they rarely dreams, but that's just a pet peeve of mine. You always do, you just don't remember it. As a matter of fact you have multiple dreams a night. It's in fact quite great if you are able to perform lucid dreaming, as that gives you a bit more time to think about whatever issues you are dealing with.