grundyoso

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How Apple Pay Saved My NFC Startup(insights.wired.com)
49 points by grundyoso 12y ago|7 comments
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Most talked about topic at NFC Solutions Summit? BLE.(flomio.com)
1 points by grundyoso 12y ago|0 comments
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by grundyoso 13y ago
Maybe so. We're not building nuclear power plants though, but NFC readers for iOS. We're doing it more to bootstrap an industry than to sell widgets. The mistake was to not consistently reiterate that message throughout the cam
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by grundyoso 13y ago
Our quality yields from the factory were more like 90%:10% but we did basic testing before shipping to reach the 100% target. First customer defects were covered but we quickly discovered these were user error which led to our current po
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by grundyoso 13y ago
I agree that it's a tough deal, one that's filled with unknowns. If you overestimate, you price things out of the range of what the market will bear and you get no backers. If you underestimate, you get pissed off customers. Wh
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by grundyoso 13y ago
That's a good summary. We definitely underestimated the cost of customer service. I'd say that after a year of having our KS campaign, we've spent 40% of our time keeping people informed. The irony is that with that time w
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by grundyoso 13y ago
Interesting.. how would you have worded it? I mean we charged KS folks $39 per device, which pretty much worked out to our COGS. Covering postage was something we included as a good faith in our early backers and the patience they've
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Flojack Dead on Arrival(flomio.com)
20 points by grundyoso 13y ago|14 comments
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by grundyoso 14y ago
The FloJack aims to support the NFC ecosystem. It's hw compatible with any device with a 3.5mm audio jack. It's the smallest -and lightest- full fledged NFC reader on the market. And it's available for anyone to buy (unlike enterprise-onl
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by grundyoso 14y ago
FloJack was conceived as a way of instrumenting spaces. Think point of sale, digital interactive signage, checkin touch-points, etc. So the general public would carry native NFC phones or NFC cards/wristbands that would interact with an i
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by grundyoso 14y ago
The FloJack supports all 3 NFC modes: Discovery (R/W), Card Emulation, and Peer to Peer. Payments is messy. There are two types: Closed-loop and Open-loop. The FloJack supports closed-loop via cloud payments, but for open-loop you need a t
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by grundyoso 14y ago
A battery is indeed included with each FloJack. Thanks for the feedback, we'll add that to the KS project page.
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by grundyoso 14y ago
The FloJack bill of materials consists of only 54 parts, of which the cr2032 battery tray is the largest by far. We chose this design because these batteries are inexpensive and easy to find. Creating a more streamline form factor with a
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by grundyoso 14y ago
Samuel, the power efficiency of the FloJack is first rate. The consumption per polling interval is ~10uAs. On a 250mAh cr2032, this works out to about 90MM polls. At the Android polling rate of 10Hz, the FloJack would last just over 3 mo
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by grundyoso 15y ago
NFC is great precisely because of it's opt-in user experience. in other words, people need to make an effort to get their tags read due to the 1-2in range. this makes for more accurate tracking yet preserves a user-in-control notion diffe
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by grundyoso 15y ago
yes, you are correct. all of our use-cases currently can be implemented with the short-range nature of NFC (1-2in). however, our platform also supports long-range readers (UHF - 10-15m) as well.