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erohead
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About erohead
Founder of Beeper (YC S21) and Pebble (YC W11)
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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
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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.
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Comment #46467655
still works fine with iOS, will work even better in EU next year when Apple is forced to comply with the DMA.
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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
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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
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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
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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.