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Loved reading this! What part of your product has received the most traction/excitement from customers? The hardware or the software/reporting piece?

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Our customers like the visibility the software brings to their operation. They keep inventing uses for the data we hadn't thought of - we had a customer who owns an intermittantly used shiploader request a report showing the last greasing of each zerk to be outputted 2 hours before the ship arrives in port, this is so they can prevent unforseen breakdowns while the shiploader is in operation and the costs are high

We still have a few iteration cycles on the hardware ahead of us - reducing size and weight and improving form factor.

Interesting insights, thanks for taking the time to reply! Always interested in this kind of stuff after working in the water resources field on the software side of things. We pull in data from telemetered data loggers (like Sutron - https://www.sutron.com/) and then create data driven maps and dashboards on top of it. Cool to see you guys operating both in the hardware and software space.

Thanks Tyler. Your line of work seems interesting. We are probably not there just yet but in 6 months or so, it would be interesting to see how we could extract more value out of the data we're receiving. What is the name of your company?

Used to work for LRE Water (https://lrewater.com/). Currently working for Stae (https://stae.co/) doing similar things but at a much larger scale. Freelance as well (https://www.lostcreekdesigns.co/).

Awesome Tyler! I'll keep note of your freelance page for reference later.

Cheers

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