building goddo for kids • handheld ai gadget designed, built & assembled in 🇮🇳 • prev @ https://teapawt.net/t.co/78tccT3zLX
goddo labs
Joined July 2023
- Tweets1.2K
- Following1.3K
- Followers383
- Likes17.4K
Pinned Tweet
when we started building goddo, the easy thing would’ve been to just pick an existing ai gadget from china, slap our logo on it and ship.
it’s fast, it works, and that’s what most startups do when they want to move quick.
but I didn’t want that.
we decided to design our own pcb from scratch because we cared about getting every detail right.
it meant a bunch of late nights, 15hr days, and silly mistakes… like missing a resistor that stopped the board from powering up. but that’s how you learn.
doing it this way gave us full control over how goddo listens, responds, and manages power.
when you’re building something a child carries around and talks to, you can’t just rely on someone else’s firmware and hope it behaves right. you need to know exactly what’s happening at every level.
we learned a lot about power management, startup logic, and audio performance by going hands on with the hardware.
we’re now on version 2 of the board. it’s smaller and better designed with a tiny screen that shows battery level, wifi status and whether it’s recording or playing back, since the leds weren’t clear enough before.
it was the long road but it is what made goddo ours.
ALT my niece talking to goddo and sharing her deepest secrets 🤫😛
hey what’s the fastest and simplest way to transfer all shares from @Vested_finance to @Kuvera_In
you said if it didn’t work people would know in days and the company would die. i’ve seen otherwise.
a while back i was looking for a non-invasive way to check my parents’ blood glucose. instead of pricking their finger every day
found a ₹15k device (indian brand). not naming it here. gorgeous hardware, felt like an apple product. the pitch was one touch replaces all your devices. glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, everything.
glucose was off. fine, you could argue non-invasive will never match a finger prick.
but blood pressure was off too. heart rate wasn’t even as accurate as my apple watch. if it can’t get the basics right, why would i trust it on glucose?
i only knew because i checked it against the devices we already had. most people don’t. i read the reviews and people had stopped using their regular bp monitors because they trusted this thing instead. they believed the brand and the claims and never compared. that’s the scary part. a wrong number doesn’t just waste your money, it tells you you’re fine when you might not be.
i asked for a refund. they made it hard until i messaged the founder and said i’d post about it. refund came fast after that. and they’re still selling it today.
their site now says it in the fine print: “wellness estimates, not medical measurements.”
that’s the playbook. launch with health claims, get everyone excited, and when someone asks for proof, it’s “just wellness.”
and this matters more because it’s india. the world already jokes that india = scams. call centers, fake products, you know the memes. so when one of our most famous founder takes a health product global, he has to be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
@deepigoyal has built amazing things and i was ready to pay 85k for temple. but spending $20m doesn’t prove the science. studies do.
if you sell health, show the science first.
and honestly, your team fumbled this. doctors asked for studies. you sent essays and “keep raging 😘”. either show one real study, or market it as what it is from day one.
wanting to build something nobody has built, tracking something nobody has tracked, is amazing.
build the thing @bryan_johnson adds to his daily stack. that’s the dream.
but right now? he’s not adding it. he’s probably not even watching.
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
this is what people keep missing. nobody’s attacking deepinder. i was about to buy one for 85k because of the brain health pitch. if you sell health, you owe people the science
I am a huge supporter of Indian startup ecosystem/entrepreneurs. But the way this issue is unfolding has been very demotivating and bizarre.
Temple was positioned as a medical device. Doctors/medical practitioners asked for scientific proof, studies. There were none. Then the pivot to fitness tracker etc etc.
Deepinder is writing long essays about why people are out to get him and just cos he built Zomato successfully everyone should trust him on everything else he's saying. Zero answer to the scientific questions.
I am also watching entrepreneurs, VCs come out in his support. But, he's not being attacked personally!! Questions are being asked about a product that need to be answered. Instead he's unleashed this PR drive which is more damaging.
When it comes to health/medical products, one is even more accountable. Infact, questions should be welcome so that product can be improved. But what's happening here is really hard to believe. Whoever is advising Deepinder on PR communications is doing a terrible job.
diwali aarti but your whole family’s on the same temple steps. no app just a link 🪔 darshan.devpras.com
was super psyched for aina but getting the feeling this gonna end like the humane ai pin 🙈
What if your devices, apps and agents knew what you wanted?
You finish breakfast, and your Uber is booked.
Running late, your agent sends a “Running late” text.
You reach home, and your lights turn on.
AI is proactive now. But it still needs your yes. It waits, for you to unlock your phone, open an app and tap approve. Every time, hundreds of times a day.
AI needs its own interface.
Aina is a ring with a screen that predicts and shows you the three things you’ll need next. One flick of your thumb, and it’s done. For everything.
✦ Cues: proactive suggestions, ready before you need them
✦ Voice: talk to your agents, take notes, dictate
✦ Remote: control your music, Mac and TV
✦ Calls: right from your hand
Pre-orders open now
aina.com
who’s home this diwali?
pick them and lucy decorates around them. diyas up high for tiny hands, gentler colors for wheezy lungs. who’s in yours?
zuiora.com/diwali
made trading cards for 100 real jobs
each one shows what they actually get paid and how they spend their 24 hours
a tea plucker in darjeeling makes $762 a year. an s&p 500 ceo makes $17.7M
jobdex.pras.fun
it’s 11:57 on halloween night and seven ghosts are hiding in your house. you have three minutes 🎃
each one is a real thing quietly wrong with a home. the range hood that’s off while you cook on gas. the bathroom fan you switch off too soon. the dresser that isn’t bolted to the wall.
we made a little halloween game about it. play it free on your phone, no download 👻
zuiora.com/haunted
