SteveGreaseBoss

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   by SteveGreaseBoss 3y ago

   Check out greaseboss.com.au, its an RFID tracking technology for zerks in industrial operations. It tracks zerk by zerk how much grease, the timing and grease type.
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 3y ago

   Crushing rock is very energy intensive, transporting rock to farms is energy intensive. Placing rock in the soil is energy intensive. Its hard to see how this passes the B/S test.
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 4y ago

   hey lostgame, reach out. I'm mech eng, YC founder, and have experience in IoT.
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   Thanks for the kind words The cofounders are spread across Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast in Queensland
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   I think this is a very good idea and point. I raised the idea of GreaseBoss on the reddit aviation forum a few weeks ago and got shot down by all the questions about regulartory issues and approvals. The tag in cap idea is solid
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   Yeah we saw this after we had our prototype and customer orders. We have never seen any in the field.
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   we have LoRa network in Australia, we have not yet tested on it. We have the capability but it keeps getting pushed down the product roadmap
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   We are QLD based as well. Tim is Sunny Coast, Pete is Brisbane and I'm GC. DM us on linkedin.
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   by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

   thanks for the encouragement. Its good to find another aussie in these parts... We have not had a problem getting customers to sign up, aside from the normal nobody wanting to be first customer - the outback handshake came in handy here. Th
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Australia has excellent prototyping and product development facilities, I would expect to see many more products in the future
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Others have tried, 20 years ago before the tech was mature, think windows 98, serial cables, beige industrial tech - we discovered them after we had started. There probably will be followers, especially now we are public. The number 1 risk
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    great to hear from a tribologist. We have the military on our plan - we just don't have an entry point yet. Do any companies for a partnership come to mind? We want to make a camo head unit
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Great feedback, cast iron foundaries are terrible places. I used to work at a foundary, the sand and the dust was terrible. We get feedback from customers all the time that they use auto-greasers, or their new equipment comes with auto grea
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Thanks Ryan, I'll reach out, I had you on my radar for post-YC.
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Our metric for our investor deck is NUM: Nipples under Management Zerks are called Grease Nipples in Australia ;)
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Our main compeittors are to do nothing and hire a specialist. It turns out there is a whole dicipline of lubrication specialists called Tribologists - they have an association and chapters in many industrial cities. Many operations have a t
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Thanks for taking to time to raise your concerns, these are all legitimate questions that have been raised by our customers during our sales process Our your second point - the problem we are solving is human error and principal/agent
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    The system has APIs, anticipating integration into maitenance platforms like SAP, Pronto etc. We haven't needed to do it yet, but our customers ask us every time.
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Great comments - people that manage people that don't give a shit are our target market. But point taken. I used to sell and commission equipment in the field, this meant visiting lots of sites and working in the service crews as a jun
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Great feedback. We are exploring the franchise model, one of our customers has a contract to manage the greasing for 18k zerks at a number of different sites. They want GreaseBoss to drive their manaul greasing business, they can reduce hea
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    We have a self hosted version of the system available, we have found that attitudes to data security and location are changing. Customers want to have it in house to the extent possible.
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    this is a good point, I mentioned that we are exploring the business model now. One benefit of the current model is that we expect lots of improvements in the hardware over coming months. We are rolling these out to our early adopter custom
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    We have patents on the head unit and the whole system
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    great idea, we are experiencing the same type of friction from our customers. We think we need to get it to something similar to cell phone contract from the 90's - $0 upfront, $X per month for 2 years
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    I like your comment about this being easier to justify on a PPT than in the dirt - we are on the road every day experiencing this reality. We are making progress, customers are buying it for more than just the greasing - they have transient
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    great question and good logic. Many sites are reducing headcount in maintenance due to high labour costs, greasing is one of those things that can be neglected. Our pitch is to do more maintenance with less head count, with GreaseBoss anyon
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Thanks, at this stage we have no other hardware. We are piggy backing off plant wifi or 4G. We have explored getting our own network gateway so we can bypass corporate networks. The system can work offline, record the data in the unit and t
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    CUrrent state is $2500 - we have not started manufacturing on volume, we are currently hand assembled We can get this much lower.
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    Great questions For roll out, we try to upload the data into the GreaseCloud before going to site, then we have someone manually fit each tag to each zerk, they then use the head unit to read the code and map it into the GreaseCloud. Once i
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    by SteveGreaseBoss 6y ago

    I will check out Borgs, honestly they were not on my radar. The autoluber question comes up all the time, initially we are targeting the zerks/grease nipples that are too low value or physically cannot be fitted with an autoluber. We a