[Zi Niu Toutiao] In order to allow yourself to stay up late, college students spent 6 months to make an app

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After Hu Yifei was 00, he was currently studying at the University of Suzhou West Daoli Liverpool. In order to allow himself to stay up late, he used a mobile phone app independently for 6 months to quantify sleep data. After the APP was put on the shelves, it once appeared on the top 100 list of the healthy bodybuilding partition of the Apple App Store, and was also recommended by the editor. After many users use his app, they have a more intuitive feeling of staying up late. Hu Yifei's staying up late has also improved. Recently, in an interview with Yangzi Evening News, he said with a smile, "My ' Stay up late Star -Man 'sleeping time is about an hour earlier, I hope to help more people! "

Stay up late affects your life

Suddenly I want to develop APP

Hu Yifei is from Jiangxi. He was born in 2002. He is currently studying computer majors at Western Profile University in Suzhou.

When he was in high school, he didn't dare to stay up late. After leaving his parents to go to college, his sleeping time is getting late, especially after having a mobile phone, even if you have a mobile phone, you will continue to swipe your mobile phone even late at night. "There are not so many electronic products in high school, so the most recreational activities are to talk to my roommates before going to bed. Look at the chicken soup inspirational literature over the bookshelf several times, and I can fall asleep soon. I can't help but use my mobile phone to brush the short video ... The time may be more than an hour, so I often stay up late. "

Hu Yifei felt that staying up late affected his life. Every time I stay up late, if there is no class the next day, he will sleep until about 10 o'clock, reducing the sober time in the morning, which also means that the time of free governance during the day has become less. "Every time I stay up late, I will feel very regretful In the morning, I felt nothing, and it was noon. "Hu Yifei discovered that staying up late is not only a problem he encountered alone. Everyone around him knows that there are many harms staying up late, but often for various reasons, he will have various reasons at night for various reasons. Stay up late, and get up late during the day, thus falling into a vicious circle.

Hu Yifei in life

Quantitative staying up late

In order to urge everyone to stay up late

Hu Yifei, who studied computer majors, happened to have a programming class. He always wanted to develop an app. Because of the dangers of staying up late before, and thinking about self -supervision to achieve changes, he suddenly came to an inspiration one day: developing a sleep -related app. He wants to use this app in a visual way to make people feel that they are staying up late and in order to reduce everyone's stay frequency. This app is named Staysleep, which means "keep sleep" and "avoid staying up late".

With the popularization of smart products such as mobile phones and bracelets, the quantitative life of digital assistants has become a fashion. The word "quantitative life" was first proposed by the editor of the United States "Wiring" magazine Gary Wolf and Kevin Keli in 2007, referring to the use of scientific and technological methods to collect and record various data generated in personal daily life, and Perform analysis and visual presentation to guide life.

There are "quantitative life" groups on "Douban.com", and the team members have a lot of interesting quantitative life practice. Hu Yifei noticed that there are many quantitative tools developed by others to quantify drinking water, sleep, screen use time, etc. into some numbers and charts. Sometimes users deliberately exercise The beautiful expenditure map of the software deliberately reduces the expenses. It can obviously feel that these "quantified apps" improved the efficiency of doing things. "So I thought of developing an app that urged everyone to stay up late by quantifying sleep time."

The inspiration for developing Staysleep was derived from the end of 2021. At that time, he accidentally saw "record sleep through the form of filling" in the circle of friends. Block, eventually forming a visual square diagram. Hu Yifei is developing the app

As a computer -based student, Hu Yifei immediately recognized that this square diagram was the contribution diagram seen on the open source project custody platform commonly used by programmers. He feels that this method allows people to intuitively view their staying up late and sleep, but using Excel's manual records seems to be too troublesome. It would be more convenient to simply record and create a contribution diagram with a mobile phone. If such an app can link with other sleep records software and device, you don't have to worry about the accuracy of the record.

It took 6 months to develop

Self -study programming starts from scratch

It took 6 months to develop this APP. He spent 4 months to learn related programming knowledge, because he had other studies at that time, so he took about an hour a day to learn related knowledge from scratch. That course was just learned from the summer vacation to the summer vacation. Finish. During this time, Hu Yifei had a lot of new ideas, such as playing with friends to see who stayed up late, recorded and counted the daily sleep location ... He recorded these brainstorms and prepared to achieve it slowly in the app.

He started to develop Staysleep in the summer vacation. In one and a half months, he was basically studying this problem during the day. "Because there are a lot of things to learn, there are many information to check."

Because it is a person to develop an app, all jobs must be done by yourself. picture."

In early August, STAYSLEEP officially carried out public beta. Watching the number of users who registered for the test in the background gradually became more, Hu Yifei was both happy and anxious. The results of the first public beta were good. Although I did not receive too many negative evaluations, he looked at the 400 background startup records in the background. He still felt guilty.

Hu Yifei in life

On the evening of August 18th, Staysleep officially launched on the App Store. Watching the user can finally download and install it. Hu Yifei was very happy. "It is also a small dream in my life."

During the period of development of the APP, he did not stay up late to work. "I divided the development procedures and other activities. When the actual development, I still regarded it as a very formal job. Other things. "

However, when he submitted the app, he did stay up late, because he got a lot of feedback for the first public beta, and there were many places to be modified.

APP interface developed by Hu Yifei

Mom is a loyal user of the app

I also went to bed early for 1 hour because I also slept early

STAYSLEEP is a software for quantitative sleep data that helps users to reduce staying up late. It can automatically read the sleep data from smart watches, bracelets and other devices and the synchronous Apple mobile phone with APP, and use a variety of color combinations to stay up late. The earlier you fall asleep, the fresher the color of the square will be. The longer staying up late, the more eye -catching the color of the square, and the visual chart will be displayed on the APP or mobile desktop.

The APP built -in sleep reminder function can send notifications when the user is about to stay up late to remind you to go to bed early. Now the data can be imported directly from the health of the apple, without the need to connect to the Internet, and does not store user data.

Hu Yifei first promoted it on Xiaohongshu, the response was very good, and he had gained a lot of users. At present, there are nearly 500 fan bases in Xiaohongshu.

Three days before the release, STAYSLEEP once appeared on the top 100 of the list of the APP Store Healthy Bodybuilding Division Q, and later received a weekly recommendation. In those days, his social platform "was drowned by tide -like feedback and suggestions."

APP developed by Hu Yifei

Many people continue to use this app to give him some good opinions. Some users commented, "downloaded the first time, and imported the data, a red, all year -round insomnia is too miserable."

Hu Yifei's mother is a loyal user of Staysleep. "My mother is very supportive. I use this app to record sleep every day. I often send me a picture of her staying up late."

Hu Yifei also recorded his sleep with Staysleep. However, he said that he didn't have the habit of going to bed early, but he improved after the development of this APP. "Before it was about 2 o'clock, I went to bed at about 2 o'clock.

Many people are also controversial about life data. Some people even want to try to live completely out of smart devices such as mobile phones. Hu Yifei admits that quantitative life is sometimes a burden. "For example, I see that my sleep data is poor, or there are still many tasks that are not completed and they will be anxious. The world is diversified. Only find your favorite lifestyle is the best. "

At present, Staysleep only has an Apple version and has no Android version, because these are two different development languages. For independent developers like him, they have no ability to make two versions at the same time.

During the development process, he met a lot of friends and gained a lot of things. He also had a lot of update plans to improve Apple's new iOS 16.From scratch to make this app independently, Hu Yifei said with a smile: "I still admire myself." Zi Niu Journalist ｜ Song Shifeng

Edit ｜ Zhang Bingjing

Editing ｜ Wan Huijuan

Editor ｜ Chen Dichen

Video Picture Source: Provided by the respondent

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