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I stopped using my wakemate after maybe 3 weeks mostly out of frustration. I was never able to score higher than 65 despite sleeping for long hours, short hours, etc. (is my sleeping really that bad every day?). The other thing that frustrated me is all the data is useless unless you tag it and create your own trends to follow, i.e. I sleep better when I [exercise]. I sleep worse when I [ate before bed].

The thing that really got me though is that every time you have to type in the same tags over again, you can't pick from previous tags, which got old fast.

Oh, they also never sent me back a charger after they told us to throw it out (first batches of Wakemates had faulty chargers) :(


I experienced all those same issues. I don't really care about my sleep score as I'm just in it to abuse my body into giving me more coding hours. Autosuggesting tags is but a feature request and some developer attention away. As far as tagging data, I thought the whole point was so that you could keep your own metrics not that you had to. The only thing they can monitor is how well you slept. It's up to the users to correlate that with pre- and post- sleep variables. They have general comments about how to improve sleep scores, but it'd be nice if they offered suggestions based on apparent symptoms in your data.

The charger thing is super annoying, especially that they offered no avenue to recycle them instead of just chucking them in the garbage.

Yeah I should have been more clear.

I did like tracking my own data, but I got annoyed that every day I would have to type the same tags again in order to do it:

M: [exercise][ate late][shower] Tu: [exericise][tv before bed] Wed: [tv before bed][shower] Th.. etc

It's maintainable after a few days but after a week or so you just get sick of typing it over and over.

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/.
"It also isn't the best at preserving your data on Android, there have been a number of nights where I lost data due to bluetooth bugs, application crashes, accidentally running the device battery out, and so on."

Likewise, I gave up after a couple of weeks for the reasons mentioned in the article, especially re: saving my data on my Android/EVO. Perhaps some of the software updates have improved this, but mentally I'd already given up. It's an awesome idea. But once hardware is involved, the typical startup challenges seem to rise exponentially and WakeMate got more than their fair share.

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