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Check out greaseboss.com.au, its an RFID tracking technology for zerks in industrial operations. It tracks zerk by zerk how much grease, the timing and grease type.

Crushing rock is very energy intensive, transporting rock to farms is energy intensive. Placing rock in the soil is energy intensive. Its hard to see how this passes the B/S test.

hey lostgame, reach out. I'm mech eng, YC founder, and have experience in IoT.

Thanks for the kind words The cofounders are spread across Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast in Queensland

I think this is a very good idea and point. I raised the idea of GreaseBoss on the reddit aviation forum a few weeks ago and got shot down by all the questions about regulartory is…

Yeah we saw this after we had our prototype and customer orders. We have never seen any in the field.

we have LoRa network in Australia, we have not yet tested on it. We have the capability but it keeps getting pushed down the product roadmap

We are QLD based as well. Tim is Sunny Coast, Pete is Brisbane and I'm GC. DM us on linkedin.

thanks for the encouragement. Its good to find another aussie in these parts... We have not had a problem getting customers to sign up, aside from the normal nobody wanting to be f…

Australia has excellent prototyping and product development facilities, I would expect to see many more products in the future

Others have tried, 20 years ago before the tech was mature, think windows 98, serial cables, beige industrial tech - we discovered them after we had started. There probably will be…

great to hear from a tribologist. We have the military on our plan - we just don't have an entry point yet. Do any companies for a partnership come to mind? We want to make a camo …

Great feedback, cast iron foundaries are terrible places. I used to work at a foundary, the sand and the dust was terrible. We get feedback from customers all the time that they us…

Thanks Ryan, I'll reach out, I had you on my radar for post-YC.

Our metric for our investor deck is NUM: Nipples under Management Zerks are called Grease Nipples in Australia ;)

Our main compeittors are to do nothing and hire a specialist. It turns out there is a whole dicipline of lubrication specialists called Tribologists - they have an association and …

Thanks for taking to time to raise your concerns, these are all legitimate questions that have been raised by our customers during our sales process Our your second point - the pro…

The system has APIs, anticipating integration into maitenance platforms like SAP, Pronto etc. We haven't needed to do it yet, but our customers ask us every time.

Great comments - people that manage people that don't give a shit are our target market. But point taken. I used to sell and commission equipment in the field, this meant visiting …

Great feedback. We are exploring the franchise model, one of our customers has a contract to manage the greasing for 18k zerks at a number of different sites. They want GreaseBoss …

We have a self hosted version of the system available, we have found that attitudes to data security and location are changing. Customers want to have it in house to the extent pos…

this is a good point, I mentioned that we are exploring the business model now. One benefit of the current model is that we expect lots of improvements in the hardware over coming …

We have patents on the head unit and the whole system

great idea, we are experiencing the same type of friction from our customers. We think we need to get it to something similar to cell phone contract from the 90's - $0 upfront, $X …

I like your comment about this being easier to justify on a PPT than in the dirt - we are on the road every day experiencing this reality. We are making progress, customers are buy…