I don't think you need to learn really hard core math to do CS. In my experience, the one most important "genre" of math was discrete mathematics. My textbook was Elements of Discrete Mathematics, and I think it was a really great intro: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Discrete-Mathematics-Computer...
Wow this app doesn't just overlay a moustache image but the moustache actually follows you around in realtime. Never seen this technology before. Awesome!
Apple Photo Booth does something similar (although I don't think with moustaches.) While trying to search for that, I found another iOS app that can do this with 250 facial features including a moustache (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ace-freakyface-cartoon-mask/i...)
Are you kidding me? The tracking on that app is abysmal. It has not one, but two banner ads, one on the top, one on the bottom. Furthermore the UI obscures much of the image. And you have to purchase the pack that includes the mustache. There are many apps that do what Instagram does, but there is only one Instagram for a reason.
As I mentioned, I just found it while doing some searching. I hadn't actually downloading the app (so no, I was not trying to 'kid' you.)
But you made some fair points about what makes your app better (assuming that it doesn't have these problems.) If one looks at the app store description for your app and the other app, though, it is hard to tell the difference (other than the lowest common denominator language in the description of the other app suggests it may be crappy and the opposite may suggest the quality of yours.)
Having a video of your app might be useful to show that you get those things right, although people who buy via the webstore might not see it.
I think it's more about the message than the alarm itself. The problem I saw with alarms is not that I never hear them, but most of the times I do hear them but just turn it off because that's the only thing you can do with an alarm, right?
But if I can hear a message containing meaningful content, I will listen to it, because that's the intended action. And if that content tells me my todo list for today and helps me realize how busy I am and gives me the sense of urgency, it would be easier to wake up. Because as I mentioned, there are countless times where I regret not waking up and think "Damn if I was able to think rationally while I was sleeping, I would have totally waken up."
Great to hear that! Can you elaborate on how it being a timer rather than a clock makes it easy to think about? That might be very useful feedback for me. Thanks!
When I go to sleep, I usually end up thinking about how long I'm going to be out (usually not enough) so I'd just set the timer for 6 hours from now rather than for 6:00 AM. That's the way my brain works anyway. The best feature on my phone's alarm clock is that it says how far in the future the alarm will go of once it's set. That's also saved me a couple of times when I accidentally set the alarm for the next day.
During the day, it's not too hard to do the math (if I need to know something at 3:00 and it's 11:30, for example).
I haven't tested this yet, but I also imagine myself just setting it two hours ahead, for a time I'd likely need the reminder, but am pretty sure I'd have completely forgotten. As an example, my first message was set for 5 minutes in the future. Then I realized I was late for a meeting and got a call. I had completely forgotten that I had set the set message until I answered.
Also, I noticed that the message started to quickly that I missed the first part as I answered. A second pause or possibly a bumper "This is a message you left on WakeMyself" would help avoid that.
Thanks! Well I think the whole point of WakeMyself is it functions both as an alarm AND as a dream capturing tool, which means, you do know when you wake up--it's the time you set the alarm at. It's quite tricky, but I think there's a subtle but crucial difference between synchronous capturing (phone call) and asynchronous capturing (sms) and that's what makes it work. But maybe it's just me, so please try it out tonight :)
Thank you. Yeah the reason that I've made this available for free currently is because I thought if I started out charging I would be fixed with that business model, and I don't even yet know what this can be used for other than my own cases. So I just decided to release it as beta and learn from people. Please do try out and let me know if you have any feedback :)
And about translation, did you mean transcription? or translation as in language translation?
Exactly! I actually had these two separate ideas, and they came together while I was trying to build the first idea. What was awesome was I was actually able to capture my dream on my first usage. You should try too! Would love feedback :)
