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Have you tried Hydrow? Is it similar?
How long are your typical workouts?
Long time high level rower here. Why make a new rowing machine when Concept 2 is the calibration standard all athletes use and has a relatively open USB interface? For those not in the know, rowing machines all have different calibrations. C2 is the standard because they're very consistent across machines and are by far the best made allowing for many thousands of hours of use without failures. Most experienced rower…
Are you aware "aviron" means "airplane" in Hebrew?
Some other comments have mentioned the Concept 2 and how it's the standard. It sounds like you're actually targeting non-rowers who want a Peloton-like experience. (Sort of like how Peloton doesn't really target the cycling community). Is that how you're thinking about positioning?
Apple is currently the only company in the fitness world that can afford to force hardware and software coupling. You are not Apple. Peloton, which you compare yourself to, allows me to use my Life Fitness bike with their platform, and they even charge me about 70% less than they charge their own bike buyers. Hopefully this will soon sink in, there is a huge market of people who already invested thousands in their wo…
Long time high level rower here. Why make a new rowing machine when Concept 2 is the calibration standard all athletes use and has a relatively open USB interface? For those not in the know, rowing machines all have different calibrations. C2 is the standard because they're very consistent across machines and are by far the best made allowing for many thousands of hours of use without failures. Most experienced rower…
also a former rower - I don't think we're the target market. If you've never touched an erg, it might not really matter whether you start on a C2 or not. And I'd guess controlling the hardware also gives them more control over the entire user experience + their own costs.
Add to this that I could recreate this business using the C2 API in a couple weeks and suddenly have a market of everyone who owns a C2 (all the people in this thread complaining that it doesn't support their machine) along with a literal potential customer list available through C2.
Long time high level rower here. Why make a new rowing machine when Concept 2 is the calibration standard all athletes use and has a relatively open USB interface? For those not in the know, rowing machines all have different calibrations. C2 is the standard because they're very consistent across machines and are by far the best made allowing for many thousands of hours of use without failures. Most experienced rower…
Most colleges also have a few Gamuts around. I actually think it would be really fun to do quarter mile sprints against real people on a Gamut-type erg with these kind of screens.
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I really feel your pain on learning the manufacturing landscape, especially the point about manufacturers not being motivated by money. I'm about to launch something much less complicated than yours and I don't know how many times I've yelled 'do these people not like money?' after hanging up the phone.
Yea. No joke. I literally offered $25K on top to push our delivery up 4 weeks (beats flying it all over). They felt so disrespected I was ashamed.