Awesome product, I love the idea!
How did you find working with a physical product this time over a software product ( Diet Pointed ) ?
Have there been any big challenges along the way?
@edmarriner Thank you for the kind words. Yes, developing hardware is completely different comparing to software. The first challenge was of course to conduct a research in order to evaluate the importance of the issue Ulla is solving. The biggest challenge then was to translate the psychological attitude people have to drinking water or the reason why they don’t drink it into a code and hardware design and link them together.
Our goal was to make a device that makes people’s lives easier – this is why we had to make a stand-alone device that works completely on its own, no charging, power effectiveness was important. For this reason many, many UX testing had to be done in order to launch Ulla - a device that we believe solves a particular problem. Studies have shown our users drink 2-3x more water now than they did before Ulla.
Then of course iterations and prototype testing takes much more time - we created a so called »evaluation group« consisted of people all over the world who were our prototype testers. And of course there is a tooling design, production line management, power management, syncing all parts delivery times etc. we had to learn everything from the scratch. We could talk about this for days as you can see. :):):)
Dear Product Hunters
you know that feeling it is almost 3 p.m., you have downed few lattes but made no sips of water and exhaustion just started kicking in? 60 % of people can relate to this issue (we asked about 120.000 of them in our research), because we just simply forget to drink water, even though it seems like the easiest thing to do. This is the reason why we invented Ulla - a smart device that will turn any bottle or a glass into a hydration reminder in less than 5 seconds and will make sure you stay hydrated throughout your busy day.
Thank you @tomazstolfa for hunting us down and thank you @producthunt.
P.S. A special surprise for all hunters is waiting on our website www.ulla.io. Don’t miss it.
Damjan & Cica
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