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davidlstanton··on Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
Hmmm, we're using a Let's Encrypt Cert which is coming up as valid on Chrome, Firefox 71.0 and Safari for us. We have seen problems with OpenDNS - any chance you using that?
davidlstanton··on Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
Cheers, really appreciate the karma!
davidlstanton··on Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
Hey David here from Got-it, we're not forming BLE connections which require handshakes every 20ms and thus the difficulty in paring in crowded BLE environments. We just need to pick up the occasional radio event for our solution to work. As you've correctly identified phones are also limited to the number of connections they can form. We have successfully tested with 1500 labels all in the same cardboard box and that worked well.
davidlstanton··on Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
Hey David here from Got-it. We've tested about 1500 in super close proximity (all in the same box) and that works well.

Three further points here:

1) We don't rely on forming Bluetooth connections (which require handshake signals every 20ms) which allows us to have significantly more BLE devices than some other solutions.

2) Only a small percentage of radio events need to be picked up for the solution to work.

3) The offering is a B2B one where typically there are multiple people at work all with smartphones that are able to pick up the signals. This further increases the probabilistic chance of picking up multiple labels.

Our labels are printable (check out the image link to see what that looks like). No promises but the next generation should come portfolio stacked and ready to be fed into a thermal label printer.

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