Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

Hi HN,

I am one of the founders at https://www.movably.com/. If you work at a desk for extended periods you may have heard the call to “move more” or that "the best posture is your next posture". The problem is we also have to get our work done. That’s what we are solving with our smart interactive chair.

Research shows that moving more often is one of the most effective ways to prevent the health problems caused by sitting. So we set out to create a way to incorporate healthy frequent movement that is easy to adopt without interrupting your work or flow.

Here is a short video to give you an idea https://youtu.be/d0D3-YBj7Zo. Test users have loved it, they usually have the “aha” moment within the first day no longer feeling sore from sitting. We also ran a formal research study with University of Waterloo (who work on chairs/sitting a lot) testing with people who show early signs of discomfort in sitting and standing with really good results- all the participants reported no pain when using Movably when compared to standing or sitting in a high end ergonomic chair. That will be published soon as one of the first times a chair was able to help prevent back pain.

Would love to get your feedback and questions!

Thank you, Mark

Expensive

I don’t get how this is better than a standing desk. People will make the same positions as they are here naturally when using a standing desk, and it costs $500 instead of $2000, and it doesn’t look silly.

This is something that will definitely have a market. I actually started to work in my bed because I hated sitting in the chair. I might not revert, but from time to time I felt that anything would be better than just sit there trying to shift positions. In fact I'm sure many people go to stores to look for "comfortable chairs". As a note you might want to try selling on AdWords with "butt pain" etc. as people do search for this, and there're no ads coming on these generally. If it helps with that, too it would sure be good to push it.

Your landing page says there are studies. Where are the doi's or links to check those studies?