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I have a 3yr old with glasses. Well, sometimes he has them but often he doesn't. Would these work for helping to track/find his glasses? Obviously his frames aren't super large and he's curious so if it isn't secured well it may end up being removed and stuck on a cat at some point but even if it only lasted a few months it could be a god-send for us.

Is this a scenario that would benefit from your product? If so how can I get a pair - even if just to try out for your v2 line. Anything you can do to help relieve the stress of a few parents frantically searching for glasses would be very welcome.

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Hey really sorry to report but I honestly don't see people putting one of our labels on glasses. I think it would make the glasses kinda uncomfortable - and we are very much targeted towards B2B applications. Sorry again :-(

As a parent of a small child with glasses, yes a product like this, as a very tiny sticker, would be critical for many things, toddler's glasses cost $700 plus tax and there are so many expensive and difficult to replace medical items that children and patients of all ages lose constantly, (orthotics, arm braces, teeth retainers, dentures) and they lose them most often when in hospital, or in a nursing home, or school. Yes I understand you are interested in B2B only, but, as I sit here in my living room, I am surrounded by 13 different items that send out Bluetooth signals. It's doable. And when my did lose the first pair of $700 glasses--it was in a park. I spent hours carefully going back and forth, dividing the place into grids, on my hands and knees before giving up. May I suggest you talk to companies that manufacture glasses? Or online retailers like www.zennioptical.com Or popular children's label manufacturer www.MabelsLabels.com Which would allow consumers to buy them, and dear God then I could track the irreplaceable priceless, stuffies my child cannot lose. If you are not a parent, I realize that you won't understand, but I am telling you, nursing homes and daycare sales alone could make you a billion dollars. Somehow, hearing aids have microscopic Bluetooth inside and it has utterly changed that industry, but they don't make them as tiny stickers. Tiles are too large, and don't stick. Best of luck--and if you can't do consumer sales, can someone else on this thread please do it! :)

I don't think anything is preventing you or anyone else from plunking down $100 and testing Got-Its out for consumer use. I just wouldn't expect it to be greatly supported in the near term.

I was thinking about this for home use too, but it only can pinpoint up to 10 meters.

At least in my house, that would basically be telling me they're in the front half or back half of the house, which I guess would be vaguely useful but not really for locating specific objects.

And if it's not in the house then I'd have to be lucky enough to happen to walk near it at some point, since it relies on your company's (ie your family's) phones.

Actually, you will get better accuracy by triangulating with multiple phones (see this comment by OP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21809488 ) Even though I am not sure if their software supports triangulation, or you will have to do it yourself.

I certainly can see the interest in using the product for this, as reading the specs I get the impression it will perform much better than the usual commercially available tagging solutions for consumers that tend to be too bulky, expensive and are generally crap.

Personally I think someone with the time to try out this market should do it, as your needs are going to be different than the B2B market Got-It is targeting.

Aside from that one way to defray the cost of Got-It for personal use would be to have collectives formed for purchasing solutions adapted to a particular problem.

Unfortunately I don't think every country has the organizational forms that would make this easy, in Denmark we have an organizational form called the forening that would handle the need admirably - but I'm not sure if the American non-profit model would.

What if you attached a band to the glasses, like this https://www.amazon.ca/Croakies-Eyewear-Retainer-Kryptek-X-La... and then put the sticker on the band?

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