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A Weightlifting Coach In Your Pocket: Calibrex

A Weightlifting Coach In Your Pocket: Calibrex

Update: 2024-03-29
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Nick from Calibrex talks about combining his passion for fitness and hardware into this pocket-sized coach.




3 Things To Takeaway



  • A crowdsourced feature board to gather ideas from users and prioritize development

  • Offload heavy computation to the phone app so the device can be lean, mean, and efficient

  • Take care of your first customers. Handwritten notes, special features, and access to exclusive perks. They'll do the marketing for you.


Get your own at ⁠⁠calibrex.com⁠


Chapters (thanks AI)


00:00 Introduction and Background


02:01 Creating a Fitness Tracker for Weightlifters


08:16 The Importance of Personalization and Customer Engagement


11:46 Challenges in Building the First Version


13:32 Power Management and Hardware Design


21:13 Improvements in Calibrex 2 and User Feedback


24:21 Crowdsourced Feature Board and User Engagement


29:32 Raising Capital and Scaling the Business


31:42 Advice for Entrepreneurs in Hardware



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A Weightlifting Coach In Your Pocket: Calibrex

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