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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Civilization is the accretion of more techniques to fix the problem of the other techniques.
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The point of the marketing page is to generate sales leads, not be a pure expression of our manifesto. That copy, in that place, does a good job of advancing our goal, even if it doesn't do a good job of communicating it.
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team {at] boundless.ai
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We've looked at making a consumer habit app. The problem is when a consumer wants to change them self, they think, "I need to get a financial heath app," or "I need to get a fitness app," or "I need to get a di
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Have you tried our app Space? You're right about the engineering limits of it being an app. It's very frustrating. Space was initially rejected from the Apple app store. It only got through after it was featured on 60 Minutes. If
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We don't see it as making "tech addictive," but that's the story the press likes to tell about us. Behavioral Design is a lot more than "do it more." The understanding of neuroscience that we now have, and the
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We make two tings: The Boundless AI helps companies build habits that help people (fitness, health, financial responsibly, etc). https://Boundless.AI Space helps people quit habit forming apps. https://youjustneedspac
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A YC startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”(technologyreview.com)
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The Afrofuturism Behind ‘Black Panther’(nytimes.com)
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That's basically right, we use the same system that IFTTT and Tasker use. So we have to specify the URL schema ahead of time, and we are bound by the 50 app limit. Sometimes we have to spend a bit of time discovering an apps URL scheme
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One of the critical things about an addiction (maybe _the_ critical thing) is that you want to stop or cut-back, but you can't, and it's interfering with you life.
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Interesting -- What is it that you doubt? That interactivity can be addictive? or that the formula for making interactivity addictive can be distilled and packaged as AI SaaS? Also, you can check out our case study deck here: http:/&#
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We've been on HN a few times. The public reaction (in posts) is always very cynical and there are some very hateful emails. But we just hired someone who found us though an HN post and believed in the mission. We always get a lot of go
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I wish I had the time to fake app store reviews.
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CoFounder here! It guides you though designing a new app icon that will replace the app you'd like you use less (let's say facebook). When you click on the new 'facebook' icon, it will load facebook . . . but first, it w
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Today, we don't. We're a seed stage startup, and like every startup, we don't get to implement everything we want in V1. Our goal is to make sure that the end users interests and priorities are respected. Currently, we do tha
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
That's a really great question! A few of our investors actually found us though Space (Esther Dyson and Howard Morgan among others) -- They got the "whole mission" stuff before we spoke. I'll assume your one of our other
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Thanks for the endorsement and the HN post arikr!
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No, but behavioral addictions are a real thing, and (by some measures) they are much more common than drug addiction. As Technologies get better at targeting our learning systems, the promise and parol of these technologies is only going to
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We get a lot of strong reactions to our work. ;)
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We don't see it as penance; We see it as part of the same mission. Sometimes, you wish you did something more (or more regularly). The Dopamine API helps you do that. (go to the gym, pick water over soda, ect) Sometimes you wish that y
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Hi HN, thanks for having us back! I'm the coFounder and CEO of Dopamine Labs, the company behind Space. Happy to answer any questions!
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I think that the grad student tax would increase the number of grad students. If the tax increase goes through, universities will probably respond my significantly increasing "indirects" and decreasing tuition. They could twidd
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
Have you read Huxley's sequel to Brave New World? It's called "The Island." In it all of the technologies from BNW are used to set people free; to enhance the human condition. I stand with Nir (and Huxley). These technol
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A low subject count is a big problem in a lot of psych studies, but much less so in psychophysics. They typically do thousands of trials on each subject and the variance between subjects is usually extremely small.
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The fact that there is a grey zone does not mean that there aren't also black and white zones. It more interesting to think about the grey zones, but it's easier to get things done in the back and white zones.
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Yup. https://angel.co/dopamine-1/jobs
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I think that the thing we're contrarian on is "using software to design peoples behavior is bad," or "Dopamine (the molecule) is first and foremost about Addiction." Dopamine is about learning, and learning only mat
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>What would the cost be of all the lost productivity? What if it was a productivity app that you were spending more time in or interacting with more efficiently. Or what if it was a fitness app that got you to do extra stretches througho
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Is there any behavior that you wish you did more often or more regularly? Going to the gym? Driving more carefully? Taking a moment to center yourself? We're actively working on all of those. I don't think it's possible to pr

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