SelfMonk

The Airpod-first meditation app ⛩

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The Airpod-first meditation app ⛩

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SelfMonk is a Voice App that gets you meditating in less than 4 seconds.

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Hey everyone! We were tired of waiting for our meditations app to load so we decided to make a simple iPhone app where you just ask Siri for “SelfMonk” and you start meditating in less than 4 seconds. We made it in 7 days and we want to improve it with a group of people who are passionate about meditation and love their Airpods, if you want to help us with feedback please write to us at hernanaracenachirinos@gmail.com or let us know what you think in a comment thanks!!!

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8yr ago

@gmail @aracena Love it! Thank you for having me in the beta 🙌

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8yr ago

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@amrith it was my pleasure, thanks you for your feedback

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8yr ago

@aracena ‘s obsessive attention to simplicity in getting to the aha moment shows in this product. Great job Hernan

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8yr ago

@gmail @aracena Please make it for Mac OS

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8yr ago

I don't meditate and neither do I own Airpods. But wow, I love it. You do one thing and one thing only, and that's the beauty of it.

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8yr ago

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@igoruphere Igor thank you, it means a lot to us! :) is there anything you feel we can make it better?

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8yr ago

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@igoruphere I also would love to know if you use it tomorrow!!! and get your feedback on the second meditation

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8yr ago

@aracena I'm entertaining the idea of giving it a shot in between work sessions. I'm not sure that I'll remember to post back here though. :) So far, to me who doesn't meditate and doesn't know a thing about it, rewind controls are lacking. Perhaps it's against the whole point of concentrating, but sometimes environment pulls you out of it whether you want it or not.

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8yr ago

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@igoruphere Perfect, it make sense, I hope you enjoy it!!!

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8yr ago

Reporfy

Hey @aracena I just stumbled upon your SelfMonk product and I'd love to test it, but can't download it from the App Store in Spain. Do you have any plans to expand the product to other stores anytime soon? Thanks!

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8yr ago

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Great idea, @aracena. Curious what the process was like building an audio-focused experience like this.

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8yr ago

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@rrhoover Hey Ryan, this is a very good question, the process was focused on making the app as fast as possible and to do it, we worked in 3 parts: the name/command, the loading times and the voice. The Name/Command: It was really important that with a simple command Siri could start the meditation for us. So we tried 50 different names until we found one that was easy to pronounce and for Siri to understand. Loading times: Whenever you tell Siri a command you expect an immediate answer. If you get silence it would feel like something went wrong. In order to accomplish this level of responsiveness, we download tomorrow’s session while you are meditating. The Voice: In an app where the voice is the “interface” we needed to make sure that it provides the right feeling. To get the right one, we tried around 9 different voices with the same meditation until we found one that wasn’t distracting us from the meditation. We listened to it for 3 days and made the decision that the current voice was the right one for us. Ultimately it came down to try the app ourselves a lot and see how it felt, we had a total of 63 iterations in 7 days.

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8yr ago