Review my startup: Presence

I appreciate your candor. There are a couple of doctors who joined the beta, presumably with ideas on how this tool can help them. Our thoughts are that when a patient walks in they can check themselves in, and their check in can easily be integrated into the clinics scheduling software via the API. Furthermore, new patients can automatically fill out the (insurance/patient info) form and submit it electronically on their phone. This would reduce paperwork burden on the office manager and result in higher efficiencies. The clinic can schedule appointments and personalize the users page with their next appointment data, history and doctors notes, again seamlessly via integration with their practice management software. We have not yet integrated push notifications, but it is in the pipeline and I am sure you can see the implications. We transmit everything over SSL and do not store this kind of data on our servers so I would presume it would be HIPAA compliant. The larger vision is that these types of applications become developed for a wide array of verticals, and perhaps even monetized by their developers.

Based on feedback from a large minority of beta users we feel that the software needs some tweaking to make it easier to leverage beyond posting comments to your Presence. We are currently working on it and expect a new release very soon. We agree that the examples in the FAQ (such as "How can I use Presence?") may be too broad and we may need to provide much more detailed use-cases. Once again, thank you for your comments, there is no need for apologies, they were much appreciated.

From a technical standpoint Presence lets you slap a web application on top of a physical location/object in order to enable that location with virtual services. There are some examples in the FAQ, however we were thinking it would help to be a bit broad in order to see what users will do with it, instead of suggesting what they can do with it. For example if we say that a restaurant may use it to remotely alert you when your table is ready, people may at the very worst think this is targeted to restaurants and at the very best think its targeted only to businesses.

Being so heavily involved in development for the past months it did not occur to us that people would not be able to figure out what the app does. We will have to find a good way to provide some examples without making the examples restrictive. Thank you.

For privacy purposes, we do not traditionally track the location of the client. Your location is used anonymously in requests to determine what is around you and provide you with relevant data. When you attach to a Presence (a user controlled location/object) then your location at the time you interact with that Presence is shared, while still anonymizing your PI, to provide proximity information to the Presence owner. This is helpful to Presence service providers in that they may want to discriminate services based on proximity to their location. Stay tuned for an update on both the web site and application.

Absolutely! The beta is currently restricted to the mobile device in order to test our MVP, however Presence will soon be offered to traditional web based clients as well (see the screenshot in the features section).

Just out of curiosity, but did you feel that the video gave insufficient use cases?