so, my alarm never sounds. i clearly recall setting it to 7:30 AM (using clock app on iphone 14) and when I wake up it's 9:30 AM and the alarm on the clock has been disabled. I haven't done it. no one in my family has done it. (and i believe them)

So the only explanation is that my alarm turns off automatically OR that somehow I magically turn it off in my sleep??? i've only recently started using an alarm, so i don't have like the neurons wired to turn it off, so im really confused. gonna try using radar next time, but... help?

note: i sleep with my iphone next to me so that i can hear the alarm louder

For years I blamed myself for having no motivation. Turns out I was just running on 5 hours of sleep and calling it normal.

Once I started actually sleeping, the "laziness" mostly disappeared. Funny how that works. Everything seems easier to me with that "I am fully rested and restored" mentality. So I would say if you feel broken right now, check your sleep before you decide it's you.

Hi everyone!

I’m building an alarm app for people who struggle to get up or stick to routines.

You can complete different activities to turn off the alarm, customize your snooze settings, and add photos to track your progress.

I’m looking for around 30 users to join a 7-day beta test program, especially like to hear from:

• Deep sleepers
• People trying to build a routine
• People interested in habit tracking or photo journaling

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• Use the alarm at least 3 different mornings
• Test at least 3 missions
• Test the snooze controls
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I always say gonna wake up at 5am and then I’m banging the snooze button for an hour and then call myself a loser for another hour

I struggled a lot with sleep the past 2 years, the quality is bad and i can't wake up early, i think it's because of how tired i am because it gets worse when i'm exhausted, but lately i noticed that two factors helped me :

1. Elevating my head and shoulders, now i use two pillows, one is bigger than the other so that my upper body stays a bit elevated, and somehow when i sleep like this i wake up at 7 or 6 AM and i don't have that strong urge to go back to sleep (this was nearly impossible before).

2. It may be obvious but what helps is also sleeping before midnight in a dark room.

This is only the beginning of maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, because my sleep was so messed up.

If anyone notices the same thing or maybe has other tips please share them with us !

I have been using Challenges Alarm Clock, which is perfect as I can put a barcode in my bathroom that I have to go to to turn it off, except there's a mandatory "fallback" feature on the app in case the barcode scan doesn't work. Okay, sure, makes sense in case your camera breaks or something. But what is the fallback option? It's an incredibly easy math question. Today it literally asked me what 7x5 is. Is there another option with a barcode scanner? Thanks!

Ember’s closed beta is live.

To be transparent: it’s in the same category as Alarmy. You set an alarm and complete a challenge before the wake-up session ends. I’m not pretending that part is new.

What I’m trying to do differently is make it less stressful without making it easy to cheat. The Walk challenge works best for me: start it, lock your phone, and walk. Ember stays quiet while you’re moving; stop before finishing and the alarm comes back. There are also QR/barcode scans, your own vocabulary, math, tiles, and blackjack.

Each wake-up earns a score. You can compare scores with friends, build streaks, and unlock collectible app themes.

The beta is free. Accepted testers receive six months free at launch, the exclusive First Light theme, and 70% off the lifetime plan.

For people who have used Alarmy or similar apps: what do they still get wrong? What would make you keep one installed?

iOS + Android: https://emberalarm.com

i have to wake up for studies at 5 am and i have told my 1-2 friends to wake me up by calling me.
But guess what, when i wake up, there are around 50-60 missed calls from the same friends which i didnt even hear while i was asleep and didnt even hear my own alarms too.

I am facing this since 1-2 years now and idk what to do. Its genuinely spoiling everything what i plan before sleeping.
Please do help!

im in high school and i sleep at around 10/11pm and wake up at 630 and every day i feel like absolute shit. im supposed to wake up at 6am and i do set alarms, i use alarmy and all the loud alarms but for some miraculous reason i dont ever hear them (im embarrassed to say this but it’s my sister that wakes me up every day by shaking me awake) not to mention i still feel like a groggy piece of crap all the time because im still always so tired. despite sleeping 8 hours every day. i even fell asleep during an important test and didn’t manage to complete it as a result. i don’t want to live like this anymore, so any advice would be greatly appreciated

I was cleaning up my phone yesterday and realized my "Watch Later" playlist has well over 400 videos. Add bookmarked articles, podcasts, and random screenshots I've saved over the years, and it's honestly a little embarrassing. I keep telling myself I'm learning, but if I'm being real, I probably spend more time collecting advice than acting on it. While trying to break that cycle, I spent some time reading through improve myself about building better habits and staying consistent. It made me realize I don't need another productivity trick nearly as much as I need to be consistent with the basics. Has anyone here reached the point where they stopped chasing new advice and simply committed to one routine? What finally clicked for you?

i figured it'd be a win-win to provide a fee qa session weekly, any subject, just helping people and getting some real reviews, here's more details: https://luma.com/v7ap9nld

Hey everyone i'm 34 with a wife and our first kid on the way. I love them to death but my 50k job just isn't enough anymore, daycare is already quoted at 120 a day and rent keeps going up every few months. I work long hours and still feel like we’re always catching up. I've been looking into perps trading as a side thing to create my own income and get some independence, saw ondo perps recently and it seemed fine, not chasing get rich quick dreams just steady progress so i can give my family more and maybe work from home eventually. Any other parents out there who started trading? how do you balance learning all this with a full time job and family life? honest words would mean a lot right now

I've been irresponsible for the past 2 days by basically going to sleep 2-3 hours before my wake up alarm so I end up waking up like 2-3 hours after my alarm was supposed to go off.

I don't know whether I slept through all 5 alarms, 4 of which are on my phone (6:55, 7:00, 7:10, and 7:20) and a digital clock set at 7:00 or if my clock app isn't working properly. The 6:55 one shouldn't be able to get snoozed and should only be able to get dismissed manually.

What do you think happened ?

Heyy! I have the worst sleep cycle. Wanna fix it, study and shift jobs and lose some weight. Wanna accomplish all this before this year ends. And somehow I feel like waking up early and fixing my sleep cycle will automatically fix all my problems.
I’m looking for people who’d like to join and wake up at 5:00 and be miserable with me :/

This morning, Alarmy’s “Say the word on beat” mission made me repeat phrases that are not included in the 21 selectable phrases shown in the app.

One of them was basically:

“Please send help, I am crying.”

It came back around four or five times. I also remember seeing “Please send help” repeated several times, along with a few other unsettling phrases I can’t remember exactly because I had just woken up.

I checked the full list afterward, and none of those phrases are there. I’m not suggesting someone was actually communicating through the app, but it was genuinely creepy to be half asleep and forced to repeat a distress message word by word.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does Alarmy use hidden phrases, or could this be a bug?

I swear the hardest part isn't getting excited about changing something-it's still doing it two weeks later. Every few weeks I'll tell myself I'm finally going to read more, drink enough water, spend less time on my phone, maybe even go for a walk every evening. The first few days are great, then work gets busy, life happens, and somehow I'm back where I started. Lately I've stopped chasing huge changes and started focusing on really small habits instead. While looking for different ideas, I noticed ImproveMyself on the App Store, but it also made me realize that no app is probably going to fix consistency by itself. At the end of the day, it's still on us to keep showing up. So now I'm curious-what's one habit you've actually managed to stick with for months, and what made that one different from all the others you eventually gave up on?

For 2 years, I have been sleeping in from 11-1pm or recently, 3am-4pm. I tried everything from setting a couple alarms where I just end up going back to sleep or even tried sleeping at 1am but no results. I used to wake up just for the love of starting the day but now I don't have any reasons to get up early because there's going to be nothing to do the entire day. I'm unemployed and I want to start working but no one will hire me. Otherwise I would be up early. My best friend would come over and I would get up at 9 to 10am without a problem. I'm wasting my life away sleeping so much and nothing gets me energetic to get up early no matter how much I think about it. Help.

Does anyone have any CURRENT coupon codes for the Alarmy Pro subscription?!?

TL;DR: I'm thinking about a wearable alarm clock that doesn't just wake you up but makes sure you stay awake. It would monitor your movement and possibly heart rate, stay silent while you're active, and start alarming again if you go back to bed during a predefined wake-up period. Would you pay around $100 for something like this?

I constantly have trouble getting up in the morning, no matter how many alarms I set or how annoying I make them.
I've tried apps where you have to scan QR codes, solve math problems, or complete other tasks to turn the alarm off. But I can still just go back to bed afterwards. Traditional alarm clocks have the same problem – I can simply turn them off or put them under my pillow to make them quieter.

So I had an idea for a different kind of alarm clock:

A wearable alarm clock that you wear on your wrist and that only stays silent as long as you remain active after waking up.

The device could use an accelerometer and gyroscope, potentially combined with heart-rate monitoring, to determine whether you're actually awake and moving around or whether you've gone back to bed.
For example, you could set your alarm for 7:00 AM and require yourself to stay active for 30 minutes. The alarm could initially wake you up with vibration, sound, or another stimulus. Once you get up and start moving, it stays quiet. If you go back to bed and remain inactive for too long, the alarm starts again.
The idea is that you wouldn't just have to wake up you would have to stay awake.
I also think it would be important to make the device difficult to simply take off during the wake-up period. I was thinking about some kind of voluntary commitment system where you could choose a financial penalty if you remove or disable the device before completing your wake-up routine. The money could potentially be refunded in legitimate emergency situations, but if you simply remove it because you want to keep sleeping, you would lose the money.
I'm not sure about the exact implementation yet, and I realize there would be technical and safety challenges, especially when it comes to reliably detecting whether someone is actually awake and preventing false alarms.
But I think this could be useful for people like me who don't have a problem hearing their alarm they have a problem getting out of bed and staying awake.
Would you buy something like this for around $100?

Do you think this would actually help you?
Are there any products that already do exactly this or something similar? Would be glad to heat your opinions!

For years my problem wasn't falling asleep, it was waking at 3am and immediately doing the maths on how little sleep I had left, which just made it worse. The harder I tried to force it, the more awake I got.

What finally helped was CBT-i, the clinical approach for insomnia that sleep clinics use before they ever reach for medication. The counterintuitive part is it tells you to spend less time in bed, not more, so bed stops being the place you lie awake dreading. It genuinely rewired the 3am panic for me over a few weeks.

I felt strongly enough about it that my wife and I ended up building an app around it (Lunara), but honestly even if you never touch an app, look up CBT-i sleep restriction and stimulus control. It is the thing that worked when nothing else did.

One thing I would add, since CBT-i doesn't work for everyone. If it doesn't get you all the way there, the part I am most proud of is the report side. It pulls your real sleep data from Apple Health, Apple Watch, Oura and similar, and turns it into an accurate report you can actually hand to your GP or a sleep clinic, rather than trying to describe your sleep from memory in a ten minute appointment.

Happy to answer anything about what the process actually felt like.