Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rem1313 5552 days ago
I tested the WakeMate for a few days and I have the following comments:

* The software (iPhone) was not really very well thought out/polished. I don't want to scroll and select the time to the minute which I'm about to wake up if the wake up interval is 20 minutes.

* Signup for account via app redirects to web page which is not optimized for iPhone browser/smalls screen.

* Battery life is awful - max couple of nights, but its kinda cool, that it charges from the same USB charger than iPhone.

Overall the feeling is that they rushed to complete the software while trying to look cool and colorful, but forgot about the usability or didn't pay enough attention to it.

I have no opinion (yet) about the product concept/usefulness since I have only been using it for couple of days, one of which I wasn't able to get much sleep due to external factors.