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Do you have trouble waking up? Please take a survey and help our #startup

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25 pointsgregmeyer13 comments

I actually don't think you mean 'waking up'. Waking up is easy, happens all the time. Feeling motivated and energetic upon waking is what I think you are going for.

Often using the right (exacting) terminology can help you define a better solution.

An alarm clock wakes me up fine, but if you came up with something that actually got me jumping from the bed well rested and ready anxious for the day, then you've got something great to sell.

Honestly, I don't think any goofy joke, prank, or noise will actually help wake me up on a consistent basis.

Its far too easy to just ignore the phone or alarm clock and go back to sleep.

I took the survey. One key thing you're missing is a way to reach people who are interested in seeing where this is going.

Consider adding an optional email textbox or even a link to a page people can come back to later. Even if it's just a Twitter account (inferred from the '@' in the name).

if you have trouble waking up, try sleeping with your blinds open. I recently started waking up to natural light, instead of an abrupt sound, huge difference.

I ran into this from the other direction: I don't get much natural light at all in my bedroom, and when I moved in I had a terrible time waking up until I installed a lamp that automatically turns on every morning and blasts the room with light (starting before I actually want to wake up).

After that, the alarm is much more effective.

Or if the conditions are right, with the windows open. Birds. They do a heck of a job of keeping sleep just out of reach.

I've done this. Started to wake up at 5:15 in the summer. Then, in the winter, I wouldn't wake up until 9, if not 10:30, because in Cleveland you're lucky to get one sunny day every 2 weeks in the winter.

Social alarm clock :) Is it location based? Is it a location based group buying social alarm clock?

Solving the "not going to bed so late" problem(cause) helps tremendously, not just with waking up (that's not really the problem), but with being energized and not god awful tired during the day (that's the problem(symptom)).

I can smell another retarded app Idea on it's way.

Something like http://www.wakemate.com/

Wakemate is awesome. This seems to be simply about bugging friends to call me in the morning.

I think the best idea so far is that you decided to ask others what they think.

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