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erohead

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About erohead

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Founder of Beeper (YC S21) and Pebble (YC W11)

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49111610

    Aww glad to hear it!

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    Comment #48740110

    great explainer video!

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    Comment #46519256

    Here's my answer (as the founder of Pebble - both eras!) on this. We're a small company this time (standing on the shoulders of giants by using open source PebbleOS - thank you goo…

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    Comment #46514012

    Generally most sleep tracking products use actigraphy (measurements of your movement) to track sleep. Pebble partnered with researchers at Stanford back in the day to produce an al…

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    Comment #46513864

    Unfortunately no - it basically had zero usage

  6. comment
    Comment #46506449

    It has a built in weather app and hundreds of watchfaces that show weather as well.

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    Comment #46506431

    Sleep tracking works well on all Pebbles!

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    Comment #46506424

    Would make it thicker, I wanted it to be very thin.

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    Comment #46471292

    sharp, same display that's in Garmin MIP watches (like Forerunner 255) but tbh looks much better in Round 2!

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    Comment #46471289

    No plans to offer more SKUs, sorry. Already have enough to manage.

  11. comment
    Comment #46467655

    still works fine with iOS, will work even better in EU next year when Apple is forced to comply with the DMA.

  12. comment
    Comment #46466506

    Still doing our water resistance testing on Round 2, but that is the target (30m water resistance)!

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    Comment #46466261

    > Screws Nope! No screws on this one. > Is that a matter of adapting the watchfaces to the bigger screen? Yes, exactly.

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    Comment #46465477

    Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)

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    Comment #46221411

    There are several different options you can pick from between 50MB and 600MB.

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    Comment #46221399

    It has a hard cutoff built into the firmware at two minutes so after that point the recording stops and the ring turns off until the next button press.

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    Comment #46221387

    This isn't a question I understand, but I appreciate you writing it. At the end of the day it's up to you - if you think this is useful, please use it. If you don't want to use it …

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    Comment #46221338

    You could write software to do that if you wanted to

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    Comment #46221328

    The firmware is not open source. I licensed it from a friend of mine. You can definitely assign different actions to button presses, that's handled by the phone side

  20. comment
    Comment #46221318

    1. smallest size is 6 2. yes! You can send your recordings to any webhook. 3. yes! can even shower with it on

  21. comment
    Comment #46221310

    The app is 100% open source so you could add that feature if you wanted to. We'd love a PR for that!

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    Comment #46221298

    Technically possible and it's a feature that will be supported

  23. comment
    Comment #46221291

    Yes, that's in the works!

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    Comment #46221287

    it happens occasionally like when you're leaning against a table at the exact right angle. but I don't think I've noticed it more than a few times.

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    Comment #46221276

    Should be possible! Battery would last for decades in this mode.