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by spydertennis 15y ago
I apologize for this. We've been having trouble with our customer support. If anyone has any issues please email me directly - arun [at] wakemate [dot] com and I will reply immediately.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
This is a good hypothesis but I see two problems with it. !) I've almost never seen a case where a company could raise a decent Series A and has chosen not to. Theres a lot of validation and peer pressure towards doing so. 2) Just because y
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by spydertennis 15y ago
I don't know about that. We've been able to convince a significant amount of people to use WakeMate daily... I think that the audience is so wide that good apps can have dedicated followings. So people use the built in apps, twitter, fb, an
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by spydertennis 15y ago
One thought I had was that Hulu/Netflix should buy the rights to cancelled shows that have popular followings and pay to have new seasons made. Obviously this is fraught with potential problems (people are committed to other projects) but i
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Do you use Kayak or go direct to the airline? There's a lot to be said for aggregation + really nice UI. Plus they have streaming 720p (drool) and some pretty decent movies.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
You should let people save playlists to a custom url. roll.io/bestplaylistever
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Getting advice from these guys has always been a smart thing to do and YC startups have been doing it for years. This just makes it easier, which is fantastic.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Explanation?
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by spydertennis 15y ago
The younger you are the less time you've had to achieve something. Therefore it's more impressive when you do.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Yeah but the other case is that the best and brightest don't apply. Then its impossible to pick them...
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Why am I being downvoted? Turning their display into a tv may not be a big step but turning their display into a tv that will replace the current living room tv certainly is.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
That makes some sense. However I would then argue that Apple should put all the 'TV stuff' (cable input, av input, etc) in the Apple TV and have that plug in to the TV. Added benefit of being way more portable/modular. EDIT: Actually I'm no
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by spydertennis 15y ago
display != living room tv
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Why oh why would Apple build an actual tv when they can just build a box that plugs in to EVERY tv and puts iOS on them?? I don't understand why everyone thinks Apple are going to build a tv, it's a ridiculous idea.
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by spydertennis 15y ago
Dream Water and Night Food are chock full of melatonin.
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by spydertennis 16y ago
Now that we've got the monitoring down we're working on ways to help people improve their sleep. This blog post talks a bit about one of the features we're testing: http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/05/743/ .
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by spydertennis 16y ago
As technology becomes more ubiquitous, the people who understand technology will become more valuable. This is a symptom of more people knowing what the internet is than did 20 years ago.
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I think you can use notifo for this?
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by spydertennis 16y ago
No one that we've explicitly talked with. We're planning on implementing features to guide people along to polyphasic sleep but haven't had the time yet.
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by spydertennis 16y ago
Well the 90 minute thing is wrong. So I couldn't find a more reputable source than ehow ;-).
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by spydertennis 16y ago
Would love to hear if there are other sleep related topics people want to hear about.
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Does sleeping in 90 minute intervals help?(blog.wakemate.com)
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by spydertennis 16y ago
Sweet pivot. This could have also turned into an awesome location based hook up service. Localized hotornot etc :-).
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by spydertennis 16y ago
We're actually working on this problem over at WakeMate. Basically the solution is to sleep just enough to accumulate the number of sleep cycles you need to feel rested. We're building a tool to tell our users what that length of time is. I
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I hope this doesn't create a Microsoft like situation where its very difficult for departments to work together.
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WakeMate (YC S09) is looking for a Django/Python developer
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I completely agree with this. I don't understand how an email from a Moviefone employee (just trying to do his/her job the way it works in their industry) asking for help from a sister site gets blown into AOL censoring TC. It seems like a
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I disagree. The reason you get a lower valuation from Angel Groups is because they act as a group so they have more power to put in more cash and to determine your valuation. Angel List is not an angel group by any means. They do not act
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I think AngelList is making the market too efficient and some investors don't like that.
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by spydertennis 16y ago
I wish someone had told me about startups 4 years ago :-).

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