Requiring a Facebook login to use the Quest puts the competition at an immediate disadvantage, as they'll have to use their own login or submit to Facebook login as well, often at the cost of cross-platform compatibility. Onboarding friction will always be less with the app where you already have an account.

Facebook told Bigscreen developers to join Facebook or "be crushed": https://twitter.com/DShankar/status/1295825809496629248

And to repeat what the other commenter said, why wouldn't you just print your phone number or email on there? Privacy is the biggest (only?) reason, I guess. Maybe you should focus more on that on your landing page. You want people to contact you if you parked someone in, but you don't want them to know your name and show up at your house at weird times just because they wanted to be friends with 'that guy with the expensive car'. People are weird.

How will you make it profitable, though? Only obvious thing I'd pay for is to get a nice pack of customized stickers/iron-on-patches/etc in various sizes.

I guess I can only dream, but I hope they some day open up parts of it so that the phone app can continue working even with changes to Android/IOS down the line (if Fitbit doesn't want to keep the old Pebbles alive).

But with that said, a smart watch makes me feel hyper-connected. Putting it in quiet mode (and/or taking it off my wrist) every now and then is liberating and definitely makes me more productive.

Disclaimer: Actually a PHP developer. I know for a fact that if your proposal caught on, my managers would not like us to spend time rewriting a million lines of code to what is practically a new language. That doesn't contribute to making money for anyone.

We are a team of 4 people participating in Startup Weekend Stavanger.

This is an MVP made in 16 hours so we’d love to get some tester feedback to improve our product.

Our product, Uplark:

Do you ever sleep in? Or maybe you want to wake up earlier every day?

The peaceful morning hours free from disturbances are ideal if you want to get things done, free from distractions and interruptions. Those few extra productive hours can really make a big difference in your life.

If you’ve been thinking about building the habit of waking up early, but struggled with it, you should definitely check out Uplark!

Uplark lets you to create a challenge where you and your friends make a daily bet that each one of you is going to wake up on time. The way it works is that you bet a certain amount every day and if you fail to wake up on time, your bet will be divided to your friends or donated to a charity.

And to be completely transparent, we don't move any money, we hope your friends will enforce you to pay up if you fail to wake up on time.

The goal is to help you build good habits, faster.

Hoping for some great feedback, whether you sign up or not.

What is good? What is bad?

What made you sign up? What didn’t?

Thank you!

The Uplark Team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11275726

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Even though the thing is old, I'm guessing the uptime is not that impressive?

I took my router with me when i moved back home from university (and i changed the SSID first thing). For about a year my iPad would think it was still at university, and sometimes when i used it to chat with friends on Facebook they would reply "Oh, you're back in town?? Come visit!".

I found the book in a bookstore this weekend, and I ended up buying the audiobook [2].

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_way_we_think_ab...

[2] http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Why-We-Work-Audiobook/B...

More and more of the web is built on javascript, so opting out of a chunk of what the web runs on will naturally limit your exposure to the dangers (and joys) of the web.