This is a really well thought out product. Well done. You have solved a very real problem with this product in a very fitting way. I also really liked the 3D animation on the kickstarter page. I will buy one as soon as I have some spare cash.
Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
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#42Something that sits in a bathroom is likely to need regular cleaning. What's the plan for being able to wash this thing? It seems to have a bunch of open spots for water to seep into the electronics.
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#43Instead of white-noise or music, why not play the sounds of people using the bathroom? You know like, peeing, pooping, farting, chatter, moans and groans. This way our own noises become indiscernible from the background noise.
I would wait for another place instead of entering into such bathroom...
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#44My company had Sonos in the bathroom playing music non-stop. The best part was that you never knew what you were going to get. Wu-Tang one day followed by Yanni the next.
It is odd that software companies spend a ton of money on amazing office environments yet bathrooms still feel like you are inhabiting a barn yard.
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#45Many of those bidet toilets in Japan have this feature built in. I've never used it myself but I heard the sound they use is running water.
Maybe 'sounds of the sea' works well. Crashing waves, seagull cackles, thunder in the distance. You can easily catch the cadence and thunder along.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's silly. Wanting privacy during our most vulnerable moments is deeply ingrained into our psyche, all the way down to our lizard brains. This is a very real and very legitimate problem to be solved. Surely, you must feel perfectly comfortable walking around naked, having people watch you defecate, or having sex in public? After all, it's part of life!
Won't reply to all the strawmen at the bottom of your post, but I and lots of people don't care what people HEAR while we're using the bathroom.... its a bathroom for god's sake! Everything happening in there is normal and I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
I’m willing to bet 50% of people in the U.S. get anxious when having to do their business in a public bathroom.
Doing your business next to a stranger in Tevas with hobbit feet and a serious gastro intestinal issue is nightmare fuel for me.
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#47> How else are you solving this problem? The tech companies I've worked at have started to build "gender neutral" bathrooms. They are a fully locked/enclosed rooms with sound proofing, i.e. no gaps at the bottom of the door. Sometimes you need to take a long session or maybe are not feeling great in the bathroom department (Probably TMI) and it's almost as good as WFH.
That's what I liked about some of Google's bathrooms: individual bathrooms with showers even.
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#48Instead of white-noise or music, why not play the sounds of people using the bathroom? You know like, peeing, pooping, farting, chatter, moans and groans. This way our own noises become indiscernible from the background noise.
This is nightmare material.
Imagine to go wash your hands and have the sound of a drunk guy vomiting as ambience :)
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#49One addition that would be great is a shower timer, and a humidity sensor to auto-detect how long I'm in the bathroom
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's silly. Wanting privacy during our most vulnerable moments is deeply ingrained into our psyche, all the way down to our lizard brains. This is a very real and very legitimate problem to be solved. Surely, you must feel perfectly comfortable walking around naked, having people watch you defecate, or having sex in public? After all, it's part of life!
Won't reply to all the strawmen at the bottom of your post, but I and lots of people don't care what people HEAR while we're using the bathroom.... its a bathroom for god's sake! Everything happening in there is normal and I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
Though I human, I prefer my coworkers think I am a robot.