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I am a solo founder. We've built everything from scratch - hardware, firmware, backend, mobile. First year from MVP to sales - 200 devices shipped in Q1-Q2.
We are assembling devices in my room in Mission district, San Francisco. Feel free to come and say "hardware is hard" to me, I would love to prove you another ;-)
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Thanks, though, for taking a look! I used to know some of the Cybex people (it was a European company), and they congratulated us on beating their best safety scores at the time. Now Cybex is owned by an Asian conglomerate (Goodbaby). The Kioma difference in materials quality and performance is both quantifiable and qualitative. We have to charge a price that covers our work in design and production costs. But I comp…
You can tell that guy's not a parent, haha. It's a shitload of money, but at least in this case I know that I'm getting value out of it. It's very easy to piss away a fortune on badly-made Chinese plastic trash in the world of baby accessories.
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Can you tell me the difference between your product on the types of prescription cgm + insulin pump combos like dexcom/tandem which offer some level insulin control? I'm just curious. I run an xDrip set up and I've played around with a couple of the "DIY" closed loop setups.
Our device is for inpatient use, so it's a little more complicated than your typical DIY APS you might be used to as a T1/T2. You have to account for all kinds of different drug interactions, perfusion issues, undergoing surgical procedures, etc etc. The biggest single difference is that we use dextrose as a way to quickly recover from lows (like an automated orange juice dispenser). Because we're in the hospital and…
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Thanks, though, for taking a look! I used to know some of the Cybex people (it was a European company), and they congratulated us on beating their best safety scores at the time. Now Cybex is owned by an Asian conglomerate (Goodbaby). The Kioma difference in materials quality and performance is both quantifiable and qualitative. We have to charge a price that covers our work in design and production costs. But I comp…
You can tell that guy's not a parent, haha. It's a shitload of money, but at least in this case I know that I'm getting value out of it. It's very easy to piss away a fortune on badly-made Chinese plastic trash in the world of baby accessories.
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Cheers. Nice to see something whiskey related that isn’t trying so hard to communicate the usual whiskey stereotypes.
It's something I battle against every day. I'm constantly told that whisky shouldn't be served in a stemmed glass. Honestly, I think half of my job is education. The masculinity of the marketing message towards spirits is deeply embedded in American culture, which is why big tumblers are commonplace even though they don't do spirits justice. You don't see those stigmas in wine. The community is definitely way more ge…
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We started in 2016 with just an idea, and we probably encountered every problem you can think of ! - hard to raise funds for large deeptech projects (thank you YC and Wefunder for unlocking that one!) - a corrosion issue in 2019 that nearly killed us (we found a way around it after months of brainstorming and completely got rid of corrosion issues) - we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problem…
> ... we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problems, and ended up selling the software ... Like a simulation algorithm? Can you elaborate on what kind of algo and the problem it solved?
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Crystal is stronger than standard glass which is why it can be so thin. Modern production of lead-free crystal is generally pretty good now. Old leaded crystal is extremely brittle and prone to chipping and fractures which definitely soured people's perception of its durability. Our glassware uses titanium as a strengthening additive which really helps durability as well as sparkle. Most of our hospitality partners u…
How do you mix the Titanium into the crystal, and does it bond in some way, or how does it strengthen and improve the durability?
Titanium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal which is why it's used in the most demanding applications like rockets.
Each glass manufacturer uses their own recipe and pretty much all of them use aluminum, rather than titanium, as their strengthening additive simply because it's exponentially cheaper.
We are making the world's lightest and easiest DIY bicycle caravan. Right now, the first test trips are happening and the results look promising. Cycling on urban roads and in the forest works really well with the bicycle caravan behind. Camping mode with the tent setup needs to be tested thoroughly before going to market. Eventually we want to provide kits in various stages of readiness, from barebones fully DIY to…