There's so many sleep analyzers out there now, and most are free, so why would I use this app? Also, if I want to log-in I can only use Facebook. I don't use Facebook so what are my other options?
@fbara We think this the best solution, but everything has its pros and cons. But if you're happy with your free one by all means keep using it. We see this as a luxury product for those who want the very best for their bodies, and are willing to invest in themselves.
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@aprilzero I understand your enthusiasm, but you didn't really answer either of my questions. If you want me to spend money on your app, you need to tell me why it's worth me paying for it (apart from the fact that you don't think some people are willing to "invest in themselves"). I never said I'm happy with the free solutions, just asking how you stand-out. Also, there was no response to why you only allow a Facebook login, which affects people who don't use Facebook.
@fbara Makes sense. Our approach is to be completely passive—manual tracking is not practical to do regularly. We also try to show you the best possible reports in the app and on the website, so that the data can actually be understood and used to make a difference in your life.
You can read more about the rationale why we use Facebook at our help center: https://gyrosco.pe/help/ — currently that is the only way to log in, so your option is to create a username and password on Facebook and use that to log in, or wait until later once we create alternate signup methods.
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@aprilzero Thanks for the response. I'll check out the reports you offer. As a developer, I couldn't disagree with you more regarding the Facebook login rationale and honestly believe you're unnecessarily limiting your potential audience, and sales, with that approach. I wish you well and hope you find a good audience, any successful app is good for the rest of us.
Dear Developers,
As much as I love seeing your comprehensive charts based on my sleep data, it is highly innacurate. I have an Apple Watch and a Beddit sleep monitor and sync everything to the Health app. The problem comes from Gyroscope taking only one data entry and considering it as the only sleep data for a given night. Beddit knows when I get up for a brief period and - rightfully - doesn't count that as sleep, therefore there are numerous nights with more than one entries and their sum gives me the total sleep amount. However Gyroscope counts only one showing me 1-2 hours of sleep for every other night. At the end your average becomes ridiculously low which makes all your other estimates wrong. I didn't check every single night so the algorithm problem might be more complex, but at this point I can't rely on any of the data you show me. Still, it's a pretty neat concept and I'm sure it's going to evolve a lot from here! Good luck, Krisztian Vertes
@euergetes Thanks for pointing that out! Some sleep trackers split up the data into tiny pieces (in our opinion that is incorrect, but whatever) which makes it harder to work with that data, but we should be able to compensate for those bugs on our end.
Will let you know once those fixes are in place so you can check out your report and the sleep durations should start to be more correct.
@euergetes We've made some improvements to filter out that invalid healthkit data — the duration reporting should be a bit more accurate now. We'll continue to try to make improvements to make up for these sleep trackers :)
Yes but when can we build a dashboard to manage & optimize the time we spend using our sleep apps? But seriously, ever sense the iPhone has had an accelerometer there have been apps that track your movement in bed by placing the phone on the bed. And then there were REM trackers built off of it and smart lamps and the whole waking up at the end of REM cycles fad and more watches. A lot of things I know people try but never stick with. At the end of the day it's just a graph that doesn't give you any actionable information. I sincerely hope you guys manage to escape the "cool but useless" conundrum. There's a lot of room to create real value.
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@aprilzero Hey! Great job on the app and I'm loving it very much 😄 I have been using the sleep tracker on the app with iOS 10's Bedtime function and it works really well 😄👍
Been really enjoying Gyroscope - it's definitely helped me be healthier and lose weight. I'd pay 3x as much for it to be honest.
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No option other than FB for creating an account?
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I read through the website and your longer explanation below but am still not clear on your value prop. What can your sleep AI do that eg a Fitbit can't?
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