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Gaining visibility even in a relatively small market like Mac apps is a huge effort and nobody cares about you and your product on its own.
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And quite a niche. Just wondering, do you dropship or sell to webshops? Seems quite nice usage of a watch. I also have another proposition which i would like to share / ask. Is there an email where i can contact you?
maneesh@pavlok.com, of course. I'm better at FB: http://facebook.com/msethi . We manufacture in Massachusetts and we sell on our own site, Amazon, and as of last week in retail(!!!). We are certainly open to wholesale, whitelabeling, and partnering --- we have a totally open API as well! ( http://pavlok.com/api )
I could see something like this being useful for things like anger management....detect rising heart rate (or some other physiological changes) and give some small warning "calm down, be mindful" shocks.
Another thing I'd like to see on vendor websites like this: a "remind me in months" email signup - I'd like to buy a future version of this with more features, but I don't want to get an annoying email every week advertising other things I'm not interested in.
Launched a bootstrapped farm management software product in June ( https://www.harvestprofit.com ). Recently eclipsed $100k in ARR as a solopreneur. Goal is $1 million in 2017 and to hire a full-time dev and a couple support staff. My biggest lesson is that email marketing is the real deal.
Survived another year of struggle to stay on top of ordinary life.
I accepted a job at Rothenberg Ventures in 2016. After discovering numerous breaches of fiduciary duties and wire fraud, I blew the whistle to the SEC. Lesson learned: Even engineers have to face ethical dilemmas.
That's real courage. Thanks for standing up for what is right and showing that engineers are honor bound to follow ethics.
After years of R&D, heartache, and rough decisions --- I finally turned my hardware company ( http://pavlok.com ) profitable! We make technology to break bad habits, wake up earlier, and reduce cravings. I decided to try to build a hardware company without raising VC --- which is probably one of the hardest decisions you can make. And required about 30 people to make a reality. But now that we have finally got our ma…
Were on you on shark tank? Sounds/looks familiar.
Then proceeded to work on and push through any pending changes that allowed us to pass three separate audits.
Towards end of the year, finally hosted the first meetup at our office.
As to what I learned:
1) Implicit couplings are incredibly easy to introduce, even with designs that were explicitly set to avoid them.
2) Auditors mean well but rarely have a wider technical background. In gambling industry they are also terrified of running production systems in the cloud. Architectural decisions must be paired with what amounts to a PR effort aimed at third parties.
3) Organising even a casual event is a lot of invisible work.
I participated in my first boxing tournament last month and won the bronze medal. I think this was my greatest achievement of 2016.
It wasn't such a big tournament as it only had 15-16 boxers in my weight category and I only had 3 fights.
I was really scared before getting into the ring for the first time, but completing three rounds of my first match was a rewarding experience.