Zach Supalla's profile on Product Hunt

Zach Supalla

CEO, Particle

Activity 2 Made 123 Following 664 Followers

Joined on July 28th, 2014

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Hey Hunters! I'm one of the founders of Particle, and just wanted to share some thoughts on Particle Mesh. We've been making IoT development kits for a few years now – first for Wi-Fi and second for cellular. We've shipped hundreds of thousands of Spark Cores, Photons, and Electrons to makers and engineers around the world. We decided to add mesh networking because we've seen so many customers struggle to get two or more devices talking directly to one another. It's such a common problem that it's surprising that there aren't good solutions that make it easy to build local radio networks for IoT devices – especially if you want the connections to be secure and reliable. We've got three development kits for sale: Argon (Wi-Fi + mesh + BLE): $15 Boron (LTE + mesh + BLE): $29 Xenon (mesh + BLE): $9 Argons and Borons can act as standalone devices or as gateways for a mesh network; Xenons can join those networks. Hope you enjoy and let me know if you've got any questions!

on Particle Mesh

3yr ago

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@callan752 there's definitely room in the world for two backyard solar tracking cat backpacks

on Particle Electron

5yr ago

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Hey Product Hunters! I'm Zach, the CEO of Particle. Last year we launched the Electron on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparkdevices/spark-electron-cellular-dev-kit-with-a-simple-data/ The product is now available for purchase, and we're excited to see it here on Product Hunt! Our goal with the Electron is to make it as easy as possible to build a product that's connected to a cellular network. Cellular is great because it's just about everywhere, but it's challenging for a number of reasons: the hardware's expensive; data plans for IoT products require long negotiations with carriers; there are painful and expensive regulations and certifications to overcome. We've tried to solve all of these issues with the Electron; the hardware's affordable, the data plan is included, and the hardware is pre-certified. Hope you enjoy, and a few of us from the team will be around today to answer questions as they come up. Thanks!

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