[danso]

Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app.

Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet.

And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after 7 days straight of successful wake ups, the user sends a FB message that is congratulatory. After a month, the F message contains a summary of how well he/she did.

So, in other words, provide both thhe useful analytics and the ability to over share :)

[HCIdivision17]

Sleep Cycle for the iPhone tracks and graphs quite a bit of useful information and may provide many of the features you're looking for. (Note it uses the phone's accelerometer for sleep tracking, so be wary your partner/bed may skew data - i haven't studied the effects). You can get some raw data, and it plots some commonly asked datasets. At the very least, it can provide a quick way to collect data and correlate what may cause a lousy night's sleep (beer and D&D for example).

It doesn't embarrass you publicly on Facebook, but I'd personally write that off as a feature.

[xorgar831]

I've been using Sleep Cycle for a couple of weeks, and it works well and it's interesting to see graphs of your sleep quality. Makes me feel like Stephen Wolfram, who I would just assume has been doing the same:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

[ap0rnnstar]

I really like this. In the end I definitely want BetterMe to focus on positive reinforcement rather than negative ones.