Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6 • Hacker News Board

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by greyface- » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 5:41 AM UTC

_2rxu wrote: post #93

mathackernews wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch. What's the hardest thing you have found getting Kodex to this point? How many government bodies are you connected to? Can you use your platform even if they do not use it? Do you use a subscription pricing model?

Great questions! The hardest part was probably getting our initial customer. This is inherently sensitive company info, and getting the initial social proof & trust from a big name opened a lot of doors for others to trust us. We have about 60 agencies verified with us so far. What's interesting about this problem is that the company dictates how government agencies contact them. As a result, the moment our customers…

> the company dictates how government agencies contact them

What mechanism governs this? Are you standing in as their registered agent? Politely asking agencies to follow your process and finding that they tend to be willing to do so? Something else?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by sureglymop » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 5:49 AM UTC

imharkunwar wrote: post #3

Hi HN—we’re Harkunwar, Vipanchi, Chaithanya and Mehul from Oneistox ( https://oneistox.in/ ). Oneistox offers online cohort-based courses for designers, architects and engineers to advance their professional growth. Online learning by watching pre-recorded videos does not work for design and architecture. Learning design is an iterative process that happens through communication over drawings, sketches, screen visual…

I think the instant chat/support icon on your website is confusing because it is the same as the WhatsApp logo. I initially thought it must be something like "share to WhatsApp". Consider changing it to also be more fitting to the overall design of your website :)

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 6:02 AM UTC

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by FounderBurr » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 6:25 AM UTC

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

Why not just use a laundry card type system? Seems like a solution looking for a problem.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by FounderBurr » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 6:28 AM UTC

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

This is hilarious.

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Post by beingflo » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 7:33 AM UTC

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

> We only provide a replacement token to the user in return for them bringing a complete charge session report.

What prevents the user from reusing the token? Does the charger keep some state about previously seen tokens?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by komali2 » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

_2rxu wrote: post #93

mathackernews wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch. What's the hardest thing you have found getting Kodex to this point? How many government bodies are you connected to? Can you use your platform even if they do not use it? Do you use a subscription pricing model?

Great questions! The hardest part was probably getting our initial customer. This is inherently sensitive company info, and getting the initial social proof & trust from a big name opened a lot of doors for others to trust us. We have about 60 agencies verified with us so far. What's interesting about this problem is that the company dictates how government agencies contact them. As a result, the moment our customers…

> As a result, the moment our customers adopt Kodex, they automatically pull in any government agency that wants to contact them.

Am I reading this right: agencies aren't reaching out to companies because it's kinda hard to because every company has their own process? Or at least, agencies are slowed down by this fact? So, couldn't adopting your product be seen as a bad thing? If a company prefers noncompliance to government agencies (legal noncompliance through explainable bureaucratic friction), and the lack of a product like yours allows for friction to slow down both the government sending, and companies responding to, for example FBI requests, that sounds like an ideal state for some companies.

Say for example if I manage a wiki, forum, library etc for protest movements, I would be motivated to make it as hard as possible for the FBI to investigate some of my users that the FBI has improperly identified with the unjust "Black Identity Extremist" [1] label. I mean, obviously I wouldn't become a customer of yours, but if other companies also don't become your customer, the FBI has less resources writ large to deal with my organization manually. Therefore, in general, it's helpful for everyone to avoid helping the FBI do their job more easily, right?

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/protectblackdisse...

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 12:50 PM UTC

samename wrote: post #86

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

Looks amazing! Your website also mentions seizures. Are you trying to get FDA clearance for both? Also, why did you choose the subscription route?

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by ano88888 » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

This is a valuable product and will help lots of people. I am interested in becoming a distributor/reseller in my country. I sent an email to you guys.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by Etai » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 1:57 PM UTC

jdmcd wrote: post #95

Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

This looks really cool, but not being able to self-host without an enterprise plan is a deal breaker for us :( We use Metabase right now not because we like it but because we can host it on our own servers, with our own firewalls, behind our own Cloudflare Access rules, etc etc. Understand why you might have chosen to go this route, though. Best of luck!

Fair enough! If that changes let us know