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Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

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Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#21
Has anyone done a thorough security review of the lockitron hardware, etc.? While I know physical locks aren't that secure, people that couldn't get in easily with a physical lock might be able to trivially get in with an electronic one.

I wonder if there's been any consideration to tying this in with Google's two-factor-style authentication system?

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#22

A non-Kickstarter Kickstarter?

We don't take the money up front. We're authorizing cards as a minimal low pass filter. Primarily we need to know how many to make (or if anyone wanted one at all!)

FYI I downloaded your app a couple months ago with the hopes I could use it to replicate my NFC card for my building, but I hit your login-only screen.

Can you make an a "Lockitron Labs" app or something similar that allows you to read third party NFC keys and replicate their signal on demand?

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#23
post #18

Awesome! I love the concept and will purchase one after I move from a condo with an auto-locking door system, which i loathe! :( From a product design perspective, maybe consider a rock-solid brushed metal version.. if not purely for asethetic appeal for snobs like me, but also to project the sense of security and that's something to think about holistically in your marketing which the website barely touches on. Your…

I'd like to second this. The product looks very flimsy. (This is to say nothing about the actual security it provides.) One would think a more menacing lock that also works really well would also work two-fold as a preventive measure for would-be thieves.

It lives on the inside of the door, I believe. So would-be thieves can't see it.

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

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post #18

Awesome! I love the concept and will purchase one after I move from a condo with an auto-locking door system, which i loathe! :( From a product design perspective, maybe consider a rock-solid brushed metal version.. if not purely for asethetic appeal for snobs like me, but also to project the sense of security and that's something to think about holistically in your marketing which the website barely touches on. Your…

I'd like to second this. The product looks very flimsy. (This is to say nothing about the actual security it provides.) One would think a more menacing lock that also works really well would also work two-fold as a preventive measure for would-be thieves.

It's installed on the inside of the door, on top of the existing locking system.

My comment was mostly about consumer confidence when it's hanging on a j-hook at a retail store, or standing alone through through another distribution outlet.

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#25
post #18

Awesome! I love the concept and will purchase one after I move from a condo with an auto-locking door system, which i loathe! :( From a product design perspective, maybe consider a rock-solid brushed metal version.. if not purely for asethetic appeal for snobs like me, but also to project the sense of security and that's something to think about holistically in your marketing which the website barely touches on. Your…

I'd like to second this. The product looks very flimsy. (This is to say nothing about the actual security it provides.) One would think a more menacing lock that also works really well would also work two-fold as a preventive measure for would-be thieves.

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Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#26

A non-Kickstarter Kickstarter?

We don't take the money up front. We're authorizing cards as a minimal low pass filter. Primarily we need to know how many to make (or if anyone wanted one at all!)

Why did you decide to run your own presale rather than go through Kickstarter?

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#27
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're experimenting with this feature and really want it to work. We will keep refining it going forward. One really needs two radios or some very clever math to determine which side of the door one is on. What we have done for our development version is set it up so it can be in one of three modes. Always on (for passageways) so it consistently locks as you walk up and unlocks as you walk away. Always off (always di…

"Always on (for passageways) so it consistently locks as you walk up and unlocks as you walk away." I don't want my door toying with me like this.

At least it doesn't feature Real People Personalities, although I am pretty sure Sirius Cybernetics has a patent on that. ;)

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#28
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't take the money up front. We're authorizing cards as a minimal low pass filter. Primarily we need to know how many to make (or if anyone wanted one at all!)

FYI I downloaded your app a couple months ago with the hopes I could use it to replicate my NFC card for my building, but I hit your login-only screen. Can you make an a "Lockitron Labs" app or something similar that allows you to read third party NFC keys and replicate their signal on demand?

This would be an incredible feature. Unfortunately, even within NFC the range of standards and encryption types across card types means you can't consistently do this.

Our NFC implementation is really the reverse of this - rather than beaming a code, you are reading an NFC tag to trigger your app to send the command.

Re: Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

#30
post #18

Awesome! I love the concept and will purchase one after I move from a condo with an auto-locking door system, which i loathe! :( From a product design perspective, maybe consider a rock-solid brushed metal version.. if not purely for asethetic appeal for snobs like me, but also to project the sense of security and that's something to think about holistically in your marketing which the website barely touches on. Your…

I'd like to second this. The product looks very flimsy. (This is to say nothing about the actual security it provides.) One would think a more menacing lock that also works really well would also work two-fold as a preventive measure for would-be thieves.

This goes on the inside of the door. Would-be thieves would never see it.

The image lower down on the page (next to "Easily install") is MUCH clearer about what this is and how it works. If the creators are reading this, I'd suggest swapping it in for the image in front of the video.

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