lloydarmbrust

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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
It's working for me, can you describe what's happening? Good call on the color coding... I'm color blind so didn't think of this :)
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
A good mask needs both fit and filtration... most people can put a mask on, check for air gaps and see how well it fits, but they don't have a $250k mask lab to make sure the fabric is good. We are just solving for the filtration and l
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
I had wanted to do this.. cause, money... but I felt that took away our credibility.
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
This is a good idea... we can put this together for you.
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
Thanks for this... I tried to answer this here but LMK if I can be more clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29878971#29882192
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
That's the biggest problem with Amazon... I honestly would not buy from them. If you find a mask you like, google it and buy direct from the manufacturer. IMO Amazon is convenient, but this is your health and it's worth an extra s
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
Thanks for noting, this was our old methodology and I will get that updated ASAP. We are now removing the subjective feedback and only talking objectively: 1) Does the mask pass the claimed PFE (particulate filtration efficiency) standard t
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
I've spent about 1,000 hours on this with my team using a very expensive (~$250k) lab and I'd love for this to be a great resource for people when choosing a mask. The heavy lift we are doing here is around our particulate filtrat
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by lloydarmbrust 5y ago
I agree but many places, IE, schools, have terrible ventilation... also I own a mask factory so my bias is going to be providing info on mask filtration :-)
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Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon(armbrustusa.com)
594 points by lloydarmbrust 5y ago|237 comments
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by lloydarmbrust 6y ago
I don't agree with this. I run ArmbrustUSA and can make about 1MM masks per day, and we started at the same time as this company. I think they are just bad at sales. We have government and hospital contracts. But, we are really good at
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by lloydarmbrust 6y ago
Ha. I am aware it is complex. We can produce 1MM masks a day and it's wildly complex. And yes, we could ship 1mm easily. We have shipped 10MM in one day. The issue would be booking the LTL (1mm is only about half a truck) which would t
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by lloydarmbrust 6y ago
That's my point. Most manufactures are stuck in these giant slow enterprise-sales processes. When a hospital wants to buy from Armbrust, we send them to our shopify store, they can put in a PO and we ship same day. It's like bring
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by lloydarmbrust 6y ago
Yes it has. More expensive in the US because the environmental standards are much higher here... but that's exactly why there should be more of this type of production here.
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by lloydarmbrust 6y ago
Manufacturing is getting more and more specialized and lean. Which is good because the barrier to entry is lower which means the innovation will only go up.
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Is US Manufacturing the next tech boom?(forbes.com)
38 points by lloydarmbrust 6y ago|15 comments
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OwnLocal (YC W10) is hiring a back end Engineer to support local journalism(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago
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by lloydarmbrust 8y ago
More Silicon Prairie :)
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A better way to fund SaaS companies: Pingboard's $5mm Seed Round(medium.com)
26 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago|5 comments
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by lloydarmbrust 8y ago
Thanks! Most of the technical aspects are covered in our white paper: https://bitpress.network/assets/bitpress-whitepaper.pdf
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Bitpress: An Open Protocol for Tracking the Credibility of News(medium.com)
25 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago|9 comments
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The Truth Protocol That’s Missing from the Web(medium.com)
12 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago|0 comments
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White House Hosts AI Meeting with Amazon, Facebook, Google(thehill.com)
1 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook launching team dedicated to the blockchain(recode.net)
2 points by lloydarmbrust 8y ago|0 comments
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OwnLocal (YC W10) Is Hiring a Senior DBA in Austin, TX(ownlocal.com)
1 points by lloydarmbrust 10y ago
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OwnLocal (YC W10) acquires Squarespace competitor to help newspapers(venturebeat.com)
15 points by lloydarmbrust 12y ago|1 comments
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OwnLocal (YC W10) acquires Whoosh Traffic to help save newspapers (venturebeat.com)
14 points by lloydarmbrust 12y ago|0 comments
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How we do Agile Development with Trello(ownlocal.com)
10 points by lloydarmbrust 13y ago|0 comments
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Boxer launches with Dropbox integration before Mailbox(readwrite.com)
12 points by lloydarmbrust 13y ago|3 comments
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OwnLocal Austin TX (YC W10) is hiring a ton of engineers (ownlocal.com)
1 points by lloydarmbrust 13y ago

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