For sure:
1) Ordered 800 pairs with an all-in manufacturing cost of $10/pair. Shipping was right around when supply chain awfulness had ships stacked off Long Beach and ended up bringing the cost/pair up to $13.
We've been 'live' with the website since December of 2021.
Started selling for $40/pair. Sold some. Dropped the price to $29/pair and sold more. Currently selling for $20/pair and that seems to be the right price point for these.
We've sold ~450 of the original 800 pairs and I still have just less than $2000 outstanding from the original investment.
We’re looking for people to join our team of kind, hardworking, and creative people.
Our company creates tools for healthcare organizations that help patients find care. Our core product is Sparkle CMS (https://www.sparklecms.com). We need an experienced Ruby/Rails developer to help build new features and to optimize the existing product.
* Backend powered by Ruby on Rails (v 5.2)
* The app has a significant amount of frontend JS components
* We are using Vue.js in some areas, and we use backbone as MVC
* We have multiple clients with different deployments and customizations to business logic and look’n’feel
* We use Github version control
Our developers work with near-autonomy toward shared goals. We don’t micro-manage. Everyone on our team is trusted to manage their own day, and we value good results over process.
About the project:
* Our team is international (Germany! Spain! Canada!) and all remote, but mostly overlaps with the Pacific or Central time zone.
* It is a large app, been around for many years, so there is a mix of greenfield new features as well as maintenance and improvement of existing features.
* Well-funded team with great cashflow and an established client base.
Please contact me directly for more information or to apply: marc @ combinaut.com
Unless you have one of dozens (hundreds?) of potential complications that can happen during childbirth and you don't make it to the hospital in time. They you've got a dead or severely brain damaged baby and a potentially dead mom. Totally worth it.
And the odds of making it to the hospital in time if you need an emergency c-section or start bleeding out are pretty slim.
Actually, experienced mid-wives are very good at recognizing problems before they become serious problems. At some point, I was running out of energy and starting to struggle. They have monitoring equipment for the baby, and checked on her first to make sure she was fine. They talked about transporting me, but decided to give me a tablespoon of honey first. It worked, and we were done with a healthy, happy outcome shortly after that.
With midwives, you actually have human attention on you during a birth, rather than doctors and nurses that drop in occasionally and can miss stuff. My hospital birth came closer to having problems because there was another emergency on the floor and no one paid attention to me for hours (when perhaps they should have).
Obviously you haven't done your research on this topic yet. The midwives are state registered and are legally bound to only serve woman who are in perfect health condition, with no complication during pregnancy whatsoever and prefer woman who had previous births without complications. Still, hospital is on standby and yes, it makes more sense if you are not 100 miles away from one.
Along these lines - are there any good 'hacker' tools out there for the various phone platforms? I know there are port scanners and some other things out there but is this a well-developed space?
On Android, apart from being able to run Backtrack on certain Android devices you have tools to MITM WiFi and other fun stuff (on rooted phones) and there is some movement in making it into a developed product, e.g. ANTI: http://www.zimperium.com/Android_Network_Toolkit.html
Depends what you're interested in, but as an iOS developer I highly recommend Jonathan Zdziarski's "Hacking and Securing iOS Applications", published by O'Reilly. It's a good primer, and covers a wide variety of both exploits and hacks.
As the parent of two young boys (one of whom will be 16 in ~10 years) I can't begin to tell you how excited this makes me.
Ford Taurus introduced a 'parent key/child key' concept a few years ago that did things like limit stereo volume and top speed. This takes it one further.
No fretting about stupid accidents! No fretting about drunk driving!
"Sorry son, you can't ride with Johnny - he still has a manually controlled car."
Great tool - nicely done. I have two questions:
1) What is your business model? Hoping for acquisition or hoping to get traders to pay you for data?
2) How lawyered up are you? You're offering financial advice and I know the SEC has some pretty delicate regulations around what you are and are not allowed to charge people for and what the limits of your liability are. Did your legal counsel offer any specific advice in this area before you launched?
Regarding your first question, we want to offer a subscription based service both for the webapp and our API. The API access is not advertised yet, but we are planning to offer an access to our raw data in real-time to be processed by the user.
