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This all started as the winner of a Google and Allianz insurance sponsored hackathon in Munich and won us flights and tickets to San Fran and I/O. At the time
by julianpye 12y ago
This all started as the winner of a Google and Allianz insurance sponsored hackathon in Munich and won us flights and tickets to San Fran and I/O.
At the time it was a solution for elderly's people safety, but it kind of pivoted a few times towards becoming a more gadgety solution. It's all bootstrapped, we have had lots of fun with things such as the video and now we really want to know what people think about it. The biggest lesson we have is that the hardest thing is to communicate it without getting too complicated. When people try it out, they get it right away.
- atroyn 12y agoTwo things immediately jump out at me - you need English localization, and your carousel is currently broken (no matter which touchable button I select, the text is always for the car button - running Chrome on OSX.) As for the idea: I think it's quite neat, I think physical things people have to deal with 'in the real world' work better for behaviour modification than just notifactions which are easy to dismiss. Is this out 'in the wild' yet?
- julianpye 12y agoThank you for the feedback. I need to check my localisation with a proxy. It's a bit tricky with Appengine. It is live and ready to ship, but we have made the touchables mostly for some company trials, but wanted to try out if we can convince some consumers :)
- atroyn 12y agoYou might get a lot out of Nir Eyal's book, Hooked: How to build habit forming products[1]. It would be interesting to see how the lessons there apply to physical products like yours. [1]http://smile.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products-ebook/dp/B00NW01MKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423687064&sr=8-1&keywords=Nir+Eyal http://smile.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Produ...