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I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and r
by firefoxd 9y ago
I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment.
Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death.
I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my head. For the last 2 months I have built a prototype that works and started to dogfood it.
It's a tag that turns any object into a smart object (still working on my elevator pitch). What it does is allow you to contact the owner of any device. Put the tag on your car and anyone can contact you about your car(i.e. if it is blocking the way or you left your lights on). Put the tag on your keychain and if you lose them people can contact you. You can use the tags on anything really.
I started by building an android app but then realized you can do all this directly from the browser.
Expect the first beta in January.
- BlackjackCF 9y agoCan you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I've had in my career. However, I AM thinking about leaving the traditional job market at some point to start my own start up in the next 3 years. I want some reality checks though.
- firefoxd 9y agoThe main problem we had is over promising. For every client we had, the CEO promised some features we cannot deliver. Many of the financial decisions made wasted tons of money. (Microsoft Azure is not for your up and coming start up, too expensive) I tend to favor meeting one customer at a time to understand the problem we are trying to solve, but we went for bulk email and spamming. The few clients I met one on one still believe in us today. The startup idea was good. The solution was poorly executed, and we had too many chefs in the kitchen (5 co-founders). I hope this makes sense.
- milofeynman 9y agoHah that happened at the startup I worked at. Between Sales and CEO they were promising the moon. At one point the CEO said our product used block chain in his slide deck. Not a single Dev has ever discussed block chain it was just out of nowhere.
- nunez 9y agoDid they try getting bizspark? Or did they have it but overuse their limits?
- firefoxd 9y agoWe used bizspark. But that only lasts a while then you are left with a huge bill every months.
- amyassin 9y agoInteresting. Any link or place to watch the product at?
- firefoxd 9y agoIt's an before alpha product, your feedback is very welcomed. https://www.ottomon.net https://www.ottomon.net
- Hasz 9y agoAny details on the hardware? Passive RFID, NFC, BLE or something else?
- firefoxd 9y agoI've been playing with NFC tags, but QRcode has been working pretty well for me so far.
- taneq 9y ago> It's a tag that turns any object into a smart object (still working on my elevator pitch). What it does is allow you to contact the owner of any device. Put the tag on your car and anyone can contact you about your car(i.e. if it is blocking the way or you left your lights on). Put the tag on your keychain and if you lose them people can contact you. You can use the tags on anything really. Did you just invent a QR code with contact details? (Edit: Not saying it's a dumb idea, sounds useful.)
- firefoxd 9y agoYes, most of the time qrcode is seen as a gimmick, ie you might as well write the url instead of downloading a qr reader app. Here is my hope for making good use of it.