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by __sy__ 4y ago
My understanding is that high-karma accounts can downvote comments/posts. HN is still primarily a community where supporting & encouraging those building things is the norm. Criticism of makers isn't rare, but my hunch is that
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by __sy__ 4y ago
> YC-baked [sic] companies get tips and notifications when they're about to get featured We don't.
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I thought this was an absolutely masterful explanation of engineering design thinking. If I may, I would also like to add to this list another thing he mentioned: "each requirement must have a name attached to it." I believe he wa
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Welp, first, thank you for taking the time to respond here. My mom won't believe it when I tell her that THE Ray Ozzie responded to my random HN comment :) Second, could you comment a bit on the latency/bandwidth of your solution?
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by __sy__ 5y ago
This is very interesting. I'll provide a hot take since Seam (YC S20, i.e. the company I work for) could be a target customer for this for our on-prem multi-protocol hub. There are a number of use-cases that need a cellular back-up con
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by __sy__ 5y ago
He was basically the CTO at Microsoft for a number of years and that's just a short-snapshot into his long, successful career :)
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by __sy__ 5y ago
thank you for all the great comments in this thread. I'm a former Li-Ion researcher (Yi Cui group). I'm less familiar with grid storage. Would you be open to chatting a bit more about this? My email is in my profile. Thank You!
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by __sy__ 5y ago
We recently started publishing our legal stuff for Seam: https://getseam.com/legal The TL;DR, I had an excellent attorney friend (who, cherry on the quake, has a CS degree and understands APIs very well) write all of it for
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I apologize for being a bit late to this comment, but I would also like to suggest that people look into eMMC boards. As one commenter suggested, SD cards are prone to failures (we saw this as Seam and earlier at Sonder!). The Black Beagleb
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by __sy__ 5y ago
ah! I stand corrected. I swear I had two calls in the last 3-4 months with some Samsung Next folks where it was like, "yeah, we're kind of outta this game."
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Yes I remember our convo! Also, i really don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but I was talking to their Venture team and unfortunately that ship has already sailed. They've sold the hardware business to Aeotek and are progres
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I agree 110% with this! The touchscreens confuse new people not used to it. As far as Schlage, yeah... let's just say there's a few folks in the Home Assistant community (and us too) who are not super impressed with their protocol
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I'm not going to try to convince you that key-exchanges are bad for short-lived visits (whether electronic lockboxes or not). We just know from experience doing millions of these for a large company that this is very problematic at tim
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Just a quick caveat that for non-consumer contexts, completely offline stuff doesn't cut it. The enterprise customers we have do want to get status reports for the devices (e.g. battery level, lock/unlocked status, which code was
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by __sy__ 5y ago
> I have had zero interest in using other smart locks - especially ones that require network connectivity of any sort I think I used to agree with that sentiment, but then I realized that I can remotely control stuff for things like groc
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Yes I spoke to Julien (their founder) back when we started the company. Nice guys. He gave us a lot of insightful tips and frankly wished we would have existed back when they got started. Their business legitimately got killed by covid. ps:
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I thought a bit more about your question. There's surprisingly not much unbiased research out there that correctly points out the pros/cons of each system. I'll try to write something soon and post it.
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by __sy__ 5y ago
oh right! Yeah it's pretty neat actually (for anyone interested[1]). Unfortunately, it does require physical presence/labor (i.e. $$$) by whoever has the master reset tool. For Airbnb's or even self-tours, that's kind of
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by __sy__ 5y ago
yeah the battery only lasts 24 hours, though I suspect we could eventually implement a low-power mode in our firmware to stretch that quite a bit. To be honest, I'm also not sure to what extend we want to over index black-swan events [
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Are you referring to smart locks with unique codes or the Kwikset solution that consists of pulling out the cylinder and putting a new one in?
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by __sy__ 5y ago
We are not. This is mostly because we are an infrastructure company that takes care of bridging the air-gap between the devices out there and the software applications that want to use them. Whether the locks are used for hospitality, self-
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by __sy__ 5y ago
is this with SmartRent? My hunch is that they're trying to lower their cellular data costs by having you connect their units to wifi. I had no heard of this being surfaced as a lease-agreement clause though. Fwiw, we haven't run i
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by __sy__ 5y ago
hm, it's a good question. I (personally) really like Yale devices, but I hate the touchscreens and would prefer something with physical key buttons. I'm also generally against locks that connect directly to wifi because the batter
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Depends a bit on the lock or access system. As of right now, most smart locks out there are still using a combination of zigbee, zwave, or bluetooth. This means that if you want remote control, you need to bridge them over to TCP/IP. W
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Yeah that's one option and does present the advantage of knowing which exact individual may have entered the premises (assuming one person = one code). We support most brands/model of smart locks (Yale, Schlage...etc) and standard
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by __sy__ 5y ago
Right now we have a multi-protocol hub with cellular and battery back-up. So the short answer is... nothing?
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by __sy__ 5y ago
The illustrations were solid too.
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by __sy__ 5y ago
My initial comment only said that, in our experience, it's a bad idea to use physical key-exchange system for short-term visits of a physical space. Key copies & key returns being two examples of problematic cases. I only brought u
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by __sy__ 5y ago
I disagree. Whether the prior occupant or the property management company has extra sets of keys, you generally don't want some random prospective tenant out there to have the keys to a unit that you will eventually want to rent out to
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by __sy__ 5y ago
We started Seam (YC S20) a year ago to take on the problem of programmatic access to physical spaces (apartments, single-family homes, commercial buildings...etc). Basically one API that can open any door (smart locks, elevators, commercial

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