BIOSTRAP

The world’s most advanced health wearable platform.

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The Biostrap is a full body fitness tracker that pairs a wrist-worn tracker with a shoe pod sensor. The wristband counts your steps, monitors your sleep, tracks your resting heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Wearables•Biohacking
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Sameer Sontakey
Maker
Hello, ProductHunters! 😻 Thank you so much for hunting and helping us beta test our product, @hnshah! Biostrap was born out of a desire to deliver a consumer wearable dedicated to providing insights geared towards total health. Some of our clear differentiators include: 1. Full-body tracking. By placing sensors on both your wrist and shoe, we're able to get a complete picture of your exercises and provide meaningful metrics (such as reps, duration, consistency). We auto-recognize cardio movements, and you can train any repetitive exercise that isn't in our library once, and we'll automatically recognize it whenever you perform it. Let's say you want to work your glutes and you're doing Side-Lying Leg Lifts. You can train it once and we'll auto-recognize and it for you in the future. We like to think about it like Shazam for your body movements. 2. Deep biometric insights. When it comes to biometrics, most trackers today only do heart beat counting. We take an entirely different approach -- We use a clinical quality pulse oximeter to capture raw high-fidelity waveforms. This allows us to extract even more meaningful data from your pulse, like HRV, Oxygen Saturation, and Respiratory Rate. We're extremely excited to be a part of this community! We are offering all Product Hunters worldwide free shipping! Just put the code "HappyHunting" at checkout to get it. Let us know what you think, and what features you would like to see from us.
Jonathan Stidd
@sameerkat @hnshah Haha nice write up! Happy Launch Day BTW!
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@goldstrom haha thanks! 😻
Larry Thuy
So, obligatory stupid question - How is this different than a Fitbit?
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@thuy_larry Great question! As you can imagine, we get that question a lot. We believe Fitbit (and most wearables today) got it all wrong. It’s not about steps -- or even just heart rate. There’s so much rich data embedded in your pulse waveform than what the current market is taking advantage of. Biostrap differs by: Deep biometric insights. That’s a fancy word for recording your raw pulse wave and capturing it to extract interesting features from it. Btw, Fitbit (and 99% other wearables) simply count beats. Activity classification. That means recognizing and give you metrics about your exercises: bench press, squats, pulldowns, you name it. We use two devices to make that detection even more precise. One for your wristband to measure hand movement and one on your shoe to measure feet movement. Our ultimate goal is to help people understand their health at a 30,000ft view and make decisions that truly impact their health. Just counting steps doesn't cut it. 🙃
Larry Thuy
@sameerkat Wow- thanks for the response Sameer. Seems like you put a lot into this. Looking forward to trying a unit and sharing my feedback.
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@thuy_larry Thanks! Definitely send us your feedback.
Hiten Shah
Hunter
Biostrap is the new kid on the block when it comes to wearables. They have two devices, one for your wrist and one for your shoes. As a result their devices (along with some machine learning magic) they claim to track a more comprehensive set of data than the usual suspects in the market currently.
Ovi Negrean
Slick looking product! I hope it also delivers on the promise. Nice work @Sameer & team!
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@ovinegrean Thanks so much, Ovi! We're confident we will deliver. But, we're also open to listening to customer feedback. :D
Kunal Bhatia
What type of improvement have you seen after using your own Biostrap compared to other tracking methods before? Did the extra data turn into results (e.g. hitting a goal, setting a new PR, etc.)?
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@kunalslab Great question, Kunal!
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
As far as workouts go, with a start-up and a baby, my goals have mainly been to just trying to stay active as much as possible. Here are a few improvements I've seen in my experience: 1. I've never logged my workouts via pen and paper (because it's just so much effort and tedious). But, you can't improve what you don't track. I'm able to hold myself accountable by having a system keep track of it for me. 2. One of the top level metrics that's helped me be more efficient in the gym is "Active time." That's the amount of time spent exercising vs. resting. Previously, I found myself somewhere around 30%. Imagine being in the gym for 2 hours, and only 36 min of that was spent lifting! I found that reducing my rest to about 1 min after each exercise helped me keep my heart rate up and leave the gym earlier and be in the range of 50-70% active.
InoStudio
Nice one guys
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@naijarace Thanks for your kind words!
Scott Williams
@sameerkat At first, I thought this was Amiigo reincarnated, but just checked and Amiigo is still around. So, how does Biostrap differ from Amiigo (https://amiigo.com/)? I had the first-gen Amiigo and it was awful from a materials/quality perspective. The Shoe clip fell apart, the wrist device would stop charging after a few weeks (I had three total, then just gave up). Was a good concept, just really poor execution.
Sameer Sontakey
Maker
@scottwwilliams Hey Scott, great catch! We purchased rights to the underlying technology that powered Amiigo a few years back. Biostrap picks up where Amiigo left off. We built everything from the ground up -- both software and hardware. You'll appreciate that our hardware materials are much higher quality and won't fall apart on you. We also believed Amiigo was a good concept - we sought out to make it way better from product and customer experience perspective. Fyi, Wavelet Health (formerly Amiigo) is now 100% focused on utilizing wearable, mobile and cloud technologies for research organizations who conduct and sponsor health research initiatives.
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