Non Software Startups

7 points·Gianteye··4 comments

HN is focused on CS topics, but I've seen posts from and about startups in all other areas of design and engineering like Makani, TechShop, and SquidLabs.

Who here is working/has worked at a non software startup?

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my company Deep Therapeutics is working on automating massage for physical therapy. And there will be software involved too. Right now its one man and a vision.

Good luck with it. There seem to be decent statistics on the benefits of various physical therapies and the recovery of patients. I suppose it would be a good pitch to narrow your target down to the most successful areas and methods of treatment (deep tissue massage on the lower back, or what have you) and get an industrial designer to make some sexy sketches of devices.

Yeah, actually focused on the problem of carpal tunnel syndrome. Or the set of circumstances that are commonly associated with that diagnosis. Its a very costly and painful problem.

What I am looking to build is a programmable platform that can apply gentle pressure all over a limb and then program that with behaviors that interrupt the phenomena that cause and sustain this problem.

I just wanted to empathize with you on this one. I went to a Seattle area meet up, and came away loving HN, and the community even more, but I was the only one in the room who wasn't talking about software.

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