Kevin Dinneen

Kevin Dinneen

Chief Product Officer | proxigenta
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My wife and I are digital nomads, traveling the world without a home base. Over the past 4.5yrs, we've visited 25 US states and 25 countries. A long outage during one of our stays caused us to miss several important meetings, which caused tons of stress and anxiety for us, as well as straining a couple of relationships. That experience was the impetus for proxigenta (currently in beta). For the first time in history, you can now reach out to those who need to know when your connection drops. A lightweight taskbar agent regularly checks in with the proxigenta server--when proxigenta sees missed check-ins, it notifies your key contacts, like your boss, team, or key client.

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6d ago

Have you ever accidentally missed an important meeting or ghosted someone due to an internet outage?

You're sitting right there, ready to work, and the power or internet goes down ten minutes before an important call.

First, a key stakeholder is staring at an empty video-call room, concluding that you flaked. Then, hours later, you weed through all the "Hello? Are you there?" emails, and have to send the "so sorry, my internet went out" message, which may be true, but still sounds exactly like "the dog ate my homework" and feels very lame after the fact.

I built proxigenta (proxigenta.com) to relieve both issues. It's a small menu bar agent for Mac, Windows, and Linux. When your machine stops checking in to the remote server, proxigenta notices and emails the people you chose (your manager, your main client, a teammate) with the message you wrote in advance: "proxigenta has identified an outage, and Alex is currently offline."

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