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Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Also in the analytics space but not related to IoT apps, curious do you do use batch or stream processing or combination of both in lambda architecture?

Just on a high level what components are you using behind the scenes? I ask because I love this work!

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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> I’m sure some of you are thinking: do hardware companies really need more data? Right on.

Rant: Sooner or later some person will use all the data to something no good. I predicted some 8 years ago that criminals would start using encryption in the same way military does. It scared me. Encro happened; Criminal networks using encryption to plan murder, smuggle drugs, human trafficking etc. Data has been called the new oil, businesses are more and more finding ways to refine it. Will it be for their good? Yes. Will it be for your good? Just as long as it does not conflict with their good? By the businesses giving away features ("the first one free"); look at the ever better search results or all the long lost friends in social media; you are lured into giving away your data because it helps you. The problem is that our machines and even business models have become so complicated that it is hard for people to know all the logic and data flows. Can anyone without a comp sci University degree discuss strengths and weaknesses in various encryption methods? Journlists, politicians, public opinion? As engineers, programmers, mathematicians, nerds etc we don't see the problem because a) this stuff is paying our bills b) it's just so much fun to use your intellect to conceive new things no one thought about. All the code I've written has been mathematically proven? (Well...) Of course, I have waited for some 20 years for techageddon and it hasn't happend (that I know of?). Can we learn from history? What about mr Murphy, the guy with the law? Why is the debate so just...nowhere?

Well, never mind, back to sleep then, take the pills, leave the kids at school, wait for the paycheck, make another payment on the mortgage. By the way, the kids love the phones, filters are so much fun, facial recognition is soo practical. Why would anyone be intrested in my emails, phonecalls, age, preferred gender, facial patterns, voice patterns, habits, bad habits; I'm no politician or famous person. I bet their phones and mine are protected by some...kind agency. Social media is way better than school. If everyone can find you in your underwear in social media, you are so much not just a weirdo, just like everyone else. Gig economy is freedom. What was the name of that new Russian "rocket" - САТАН, what does that even mean? Why can't they just use 7-bit ASCII? Elon's got it all figured out for us. People usually don't take opportunities to make dishonest money. Don't worry, icy chills may be trained to be ignored. The dating app will help you conceive children of the appropriate IQ. Those paranoid brain cells are just wasting your energy. Life will be so much freer without. We'll blame big pharma later and then some network / streaming service may use it for entertainment.

TLDR: Of course you already know that the spelling of powerful in Swedish is kraftfull. Kraftful is so much more fun. It translates into power ugly

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Also in the analytics space but not related to IoT apps, curious do you do use batch or stream processing or combination of both in lambda architecture? Just on a high level what components are you using behind the scenes? I ask because I love this work!

Renat from Engineering at Kraftful. The MVP has a different architecture, but we’re in the process of switching to using batch processing. For now the main components are Segment and BigQuery.

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Are the analytics only on the application side?

We're an eldercare IoT company and I would say the bulk of our issues are on reliable pairing and maintaining our network mesh. An SDK that I could add and implement either in zigbee2mqtt or directly in our Z-Stack coordinator + router firmware would probably be the most useful to us.

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Are the analytics only on the application side? We're an eldercare IoT company and I would say the bulk of our issues are on reliable pairing and maintaining our network mesh. An SDK that I could add and implement either in zigbee2mqtt or directly in our Z-Stack coordinator + router firmware would probably be the most useful to us.

Had a quick look at what you’re building. Looks awesome! Looks like you don’t have an interface for the elderly individuals, so completely appreciate that usability of an app that connects hardware is not your greatest pain point.

This is only for the app side (or display if the hardware has one) because our solution is focused on making the interface user friendly. But there are other solutions for troubleshooting connectivity and related issues. Feel free to ping me at info@kraftful.com and I can put you in touch with folks who work on that.

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Are the analytics only on the application side? We're an eldercare IoT company and I would say the bulk of our issues are on reliable pairing and maintaining our network mesh. An SDK that I could add and implement either in zigbee2mqtt or directly in our Z-Stack coordinator + router firmware would probably be the most useful to us.

Had a quick look at what you’re building. Looks awesome! Looks like you don’t have an interface for the elderly individuals, so completely appreciate that usability of an app that connects hardware is not your greatest pain point. This is only for the app side (or display if the hardware has one) because our solution is focused on making the interface user friendly. But there are other solutions for troubleshooting c…

Fair enough. Thank you for the response and the best of luck to you and your team :beers:

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had a quick look at what you’re building. Looks awesome! Looks like you don’t have an interface for the elderly individuals, so completely appreciate that usability of an app that connects hardware is not your greatest pain point. This is only for the app side (or display if the hardware has one) because our solution is focused on making the interface user friendly. But there are other solutions for troubleshooting c…

Fair enough. Thank you for the response and the best of luck to you and your team :beers:

What are you building in the elder care space with IoT?

I am really interested in this space, and would like to see what people are doing.

Thanks

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Totally agree! So many IoT solutions in particular for the home space are anything but intelligent and user friendly. I live in Germany and use „Smart Friends“. They should definetly be a customer of yours! I am wondering whether Kraftful could also be used in for IoT in factory environment?

Re: Launch HN: Kraftful (YC S19) – UX Analytics for IoT Products

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Totally agree! So many IoT solutions in particular for the home space are anything but intelligent and user friendly. I live in Germany and use „Smart Friends“. They should definetly be a customer of yours! I am wondering whether Kraftful could also be used in for IoT in factory environment?

Thank you! We’ll definitely look into Smart Friends.

We do want to support industrial and commercial use cases eventually, but they’re further out on our roadmap. The dashboard right now is optimized for the consumer use case. It would need some adjustments for industrial use cases, e.g. good visual representation of interactions with a large number of devices.

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