SHADOW (alpha)

Dream-based social network

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Dream-based social network

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The concept of a social network around dreams is compelling. Outside of private conversations with friends, we rarely, if ever, share these crazy/scandalous/funny/unusual stories. I'm playing with it now.

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

@rrhoover The danger is that our own dreams are often much more compelling to ourselves than to others. I like that they use visuals and short description length to keep them more engaging (not sure if capped or an artifact of mobile text entry) Reminds me of Secret, except on Secret, people pretend their dreams actually happened ;)

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@rrhoover | We call ourselves a social utility, the utility being the Alarm Clock while the dreams drive the social. You call also think about us like a mirror, we want to help surface the dream data and show you the patterns in your sub conscious mind. Let's say last night you dreamt about a RocketShip, we want to tell you this is the 4 time you dream about a RocketShip and here are 158 other people who also dream about a RocketShip last night.

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

@hunterleesoik Thanks for coming on to discuss! Can't wait for more sleep tracker features you said are coming soon (using the data I give the app when I "slide to sleep" and "slide to wake"? other signals?) Hope this is helpful: the alarm function doesn't work for me at the moment. I tried it last night with the default iOS alarm as a backup 10 minutes later. The iOS alarm woke me up. Shadow was just popping up notifications, but making no sound. Also, the alarm page also crashed 3 times for me, and the sample alarm sound (when choosing which one you want to play in settings) didn't stop until I closed the app :) Happy to provide more info off-thread.

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

@hunterleesoik By the way, I really like how, when setting the alarm, it tells me how much sleep that means I'll get. Nice touch!

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@staringispolite | thanks we are adding sleep tracking in the next 2 weeks.

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12yr ago

Freelance Pro

There's some really interesting research in this space, particularly reading brain activity to work out the contents of dreams. http://www.nature.com/news/scien... By their nature I think dreams could be very difficult to put into words and as @staringispolite says, they are often far more engaging for ourselves.

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@_jamesmundy | this is some pretty ground dreaming stuff! Check out this one, induce lucid dreaming through Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation • http://www.nature.com/neuro/jour...

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

@hunterleesoik Wow, Radiolab *just* did an episode on TDCS. Like, hours after your comment. Good timing! http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-...

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@staringispolite | this is super good! I'm interested to try. We also think we can induce lucid dreaming via binaural, but that's a conversation we can have in a couple months.

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12yr ago

Forcerank

I've tried a few of these iOS apps and the biggest problem is that I don't understand a damn thing about what I wrote down the next day. Basically the second you write it down you lose all the context to what the dream was about and are just left with words. I like the structured data aspect of this though where they just track key words, that might be the most useful thing, keywords for people, places, activities, objects. I really wish someone would invent something that can take a snapshot of the visual i'm remembering from my dream.

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@ldrogen maybe SHADOW can work with the ArtCorgi folks to translate dreams into paintings. :)

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

@rrhoover @ldrogen Not to alarm anyone but... people are totally working on that :) http://www.ign.com/articles/2013... Also: I've heard the "understanding what you wrote" thing gets better with practice. And obviously, better when you're waking up, as opposed to the middle of the night. I'm very curious to see what effect their iOS8 integration (record dreams from the notification screen) has on description quality

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@staringispolite I love technology

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12yr ago

Haptime

@hunterleesoik do you plan to extend the gentle wake up period? I found out that no app (that I know of) has a gentle wake up period of 30 minutes and I'd love a smoother transition (8 minutes it's just too fast for me).

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@andrea_sdl | We do, we are rebuilding the alarm this week.

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12yr ago

I've seen a lot of products on PH pop up that are related to Lucid dreaming and the goal of having lucid dreams. Has this always been something with a trickle of products or is it a recent fascination?

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12yr ago

CryptoPoops

Hunter

Their landing page doesn't do a great job of explaining what this is: * Dream journal - setting the intention to dream before you go to sleep, and keeping a dream journal, are both supposed to help remember your dreams more often and in more detail. * Discover - read others' dreams as well (importantly, they're usually succinct) * Sleep tracker - Self-explanatory * "Ease-in" Alarm clock. Starts soft to wake you up gently. Gets louder as needed. * Dark UI is easy on the eyes since the lights will be off in most use cases. h/t @rrhoover

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@staringispolite | this landing page will give you a bit more context | WWW.DISCOVERSHADOW.COM

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12yr ago

Meme Depot

I wrote one of the first articles on Hunter + Shadow (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alex...). Saw an early early version last year- it is awesome. Beautifully designed.

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12yr ago

SHADOW (alpha)

Maker

@ajt hey Alex you are the man! Congratulations on social rank, we will have to partner on DreamRank.

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12yr ago

Meme Depot

@hunterleesoik you know where to find me :)

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12yr ago

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