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... or you could get them here: http://www.tagstand.com/ for a third of the price and use an app that ties in with the existing profile infrastructure like tasker.

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thanks. kul from Tagstand here. Submitted this to see what HN had to say. We've been working on NFC Task Launcher (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfc...) for a while now, which is similar to this Samsung app.

This tool is great. I have an NFC sticker on my nightstand lamp now so when I trigger it, my ringer/notification volume goes to zero, alarm volume goes way up, and I set an alarm to wake up the following morning.

I used to be really sloppy at muting the phone at night and this cures that. My wife is a light sleeper and I can now make sure I am not waking her up at stupid o'clock in the morning when I get an email overnight.

I bought a bunch more tags from Tagstand and I am looking forward to finding more stuff to do with them.

First time seeing Tagstand yet I wondered after watching your videos why I have to hold up my phone up to the NFC sticker.

Wouldnt a better UX be the sticker and my device are self aware of each other? I get a notification to check in upon passing the sticker and or an option to allow such notifications?

Though is the field of range between phone and sticker only a short distance as of now?

My phone will only pick up my Clipper card (the only NFC tag I have handy) from roughly an inch away, maybe 2 for phone to (powered) NFC card terminals. The tech isn't very long range.

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