Hi, I am an independent app developer with a big problem: I just can't get out of bed in the morning. In the past I hit snooze over and over again but I still felt tired. I guess I am what is called a typical night owl. Then a friend told me to try a wake up light and I was really flashed how refreshed I felt when the light waked me up gently the first time. But good wake up devices are expensive and I also saw a lot of improvement possibilities. So I started to develop the app "Gentle Wakeup" in beginning of 2017. The app gives you full control over the wake up process. Start the sunrise 20 minutes before your desired wake-up time and define your personal brightness level at the end. Add slowly increasing sounds of birds twittering and add a device vibration as a backup 5 min after wake up time. Enjoy a nice morning show including weather forecast before you get out of bed. The response from the play store was just amazing. Until now the app has been downloaded over a 100 thousand times. Seems like I was not the only one with this problem ;) People even told me that the app has changed their life! Great! I sticked close to the community to constantly improve the app. The app has an average rating of 4.3 with amazing reviews and is packed full with cool features: - Alarm clock: Fully functional alarm clock with repeated alarms and snooze function. - Gentle sounds: Wake up with different natural sounds, instrumental music or your own favorite pieces. - True sunrise: The sun changes its colors from red to yellow like a real sunrise. - Weather forecast: An animated weather show presents you the weather conditions and temperature for the day. - Skip next alarm: Skip a repeating alarm in case you wake up earlier. No risk of forgetting to turn alarm on again. - Custom repeat options: Repeat alarms every second monday, every second day or set specific calendar days for work shift. What I also learned from the community is that for many people not only waking up is a problem but also staying asleep. Today I am very proud to present a big update with: - Sleeping sounds: Sleep better with background sounds like rain, wind, crickets or white noise. - Nightstand clock: Display shows current time and wake up time over night. The app has 50 high quality sounds for wakeup and night background now! And best of all: Here at ProductHunt you get all premium functions for FREE! Just enter the code wakeup2604 in the app settings and unlock all premium functions. You get all the features of the pro version which saves you $7! In return I would love to get some feedback from you guys how the app works for you. Any new feature ideas are welcome. I will try to answer all comments. So what comes next? Currently I am working on fading light effects and fading sound for power napping and sleep timer. I'll keep you updated when these features are ready.

Gentle Wakeup

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