I saw @denismars's tweet to this TechCrunch article with the comment "We're officially launched" so I went ahead and posted this. Seems super cool. We use key cards at WeWork and when your hands are full it's soooo annoying.
This looks really cool and I bet it could be pretty useful with co-working spaces. Also the pricing seems reasonable to me in that setup.
What types of doors does it work on?
Does it need to have an internet connection in order to open or is bluetooth enough? I'm thinking that some firms in bigger complexes maybe don't have wifi available from the 3rd story or so offices 😊
Is it possible to install the hardware by yourself? I'm guessing the technicians are not available outside US?
@curiousigor We are targeting commercial doors with electric strikes / maglocks for now. Co-working is a perfect use case since people rotate all the time!
Internet connection required on your phone, but not the sensor. Unfortunately, we can't support pilots outside the US right now, but would love to chat about your use case anyway - feel free to reach out via email.
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wow, looks awesome!
what was your idea behind the name "Proxy"? being not familar with the situation, id argue its a terrible name because most google results will show something very different when searching for it.
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@gopietz Im not involved in this but would hazard a guess its because its done in 'proximity' or 'by proxy' so makes sense from that perspective and to be fair most words around that idea will be crammed for results in google
@alistaircoggins@gopietz Good guesses :) "Proximity" is a big part of it, and we have lots of other ideas to make all devices we interact with smarter at detecting your presence and doing useful things for you. We see this as "your proxy" for the physical world dominated by devices.
Love Denis and Simon. They've retrofitted our doors at YC so now we don't have to remember keycodes or our keys. Other smart-locks I looked at were restricted to deadbolt doors only; Proxy's flexibility made it a no-brainer for me.
So glad to have been able to work with them!
@svkpham Thanks Steven! We're super grateful for taking a chance on us when we were just getting started - the real world usage was priceless for us to get this right.
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