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I was so impressed with this Hatch clock and was so looking forward to using it. But now I feel like I wasted my money. It all has to do with the app.
They dont put the main features first, there was supposed to be three main features, sleep sounds, unwind sounds, and the sunrise / morning alarm sounds.
The unwind / meditation section is behind a paywall. Yep, and you cant remove it or minimize it, it just takes up useless space and almost all the content within the premium service looks terrible. For some reason they have niche celebrities from RuPauls Drag Race reading their meditations. Like cmon this just screams a cash grab for both parties involved.
This would be a way better product if you had atleast some free parts of the Unwind section, like you are literally so greedy I just spent $170 on this clock, I can get free meditations on youtube and have a free alarm on my phone.
You guys think that a couple sounds are so valuable that they are worth $50 a year??? For a tiny library of mediocre sounds.
The thing that angers me the most, is that after you press the "Snooze" Or Rise button on the machine, a setting called the "Morning Moment" starts playing the "Light Rain" sound, which is way louder than previously playing sound, so its a bit jarring, and you cant turn that feature off without subscribing to the service (In the moment you have to press the button for 3 seconds to stop it) But whenever you stop any sound the morning moment starts playing, even if you just stop the nighttime sound machine function.
Greed has ruined this product, and I really hope that Hatch fixes this and makes their content free and more customizable, because this is ridiculous, and btw the "Morning Birds" sound isnt peaceful at all, its like 5 seconds long so its very repetitive on loop.
I still have a month to return this product and i plan on doing that because its only been one day and im already frustrated with the greed and "Enshittification" of this product. Make it simpler, make the app interface better, make the product not rely on a subscription, be a product thats actually reverent to the problems that It claims to solve, inner-peace and rest. Dont shove the paid functionality in our face before the basic free functions, hide them away in a folder because we want the basic functions first anyway!
I am so dissapointed.
| Brand | Hatch Baby |
|---|---|
| Model Number | HBR4801L |
| Colour | Latte |
| Product Dimensions | 18.39 x 6.17 x 13.49 cm; 1.15 kg |
| Material | Plastic |
| Special Features | Alarm at dawn, sound machine, white noise |
| Item Weight | 1.15 kg |
