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by jpfaraco 70 days ago
Finally being able to build something I've wanted for years: an alarm app that wakes me up 1 min earlier each day until I reach my wake time goal. Not sure if there is already anything like this out there, but I don't really care. I've been learning a ton about native Android development and so far it's been a painless process to be able to wake up earlier.
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conductr 70 days ago
Bravo on the learning! Now regarding the app idea, is it really that hard to just change the native alarm by a minute for someone that was interested in this? If that's hard, actually waking up when the alarm goes off earlier seems more of an issue as well. Might just be me but I'm a perpetual snooze button user.
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mschild 70 days ago
> is it really that hard to just change the native alarm by a minute for someone that was interested in this?

Not OP. In theory? No. Takes a second to change it. To be quite honest, its yet another thing to keep track off and do. I know, for myself, I would remember to do it for a few days and then forget.

Its a tiny thing but the more I can outsource the better. My brain is occupied with enough other stuff.

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conductr 69 days ago
Makes sense there is a divide in how people like to enact changes like this. For me, the mental shift of using yet another app would be more of a headache than just doing it manually in the native app. I've been using the native app for almost 2 decades, have some solid muscle memory through fumbling around with it late at night and early in morning during partial stages of sleep. Learning a new app, changing my muscle memory, honestly just opening it instead of the native app when thinking about alarm will be a big hurdle that I'm not taking on unless this app added more than a minor convenience.

Then there's the problem of discovery, if I wanted to do this, it's so easy I would just do it, manually, with native app. It's such a minor problem, I'd never even look for other solutions.

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kn81198 69 days ago
What do you think of making it a spaced repetition-esque system where you treat hitting the snooze button repeatedly as a back off signal?
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