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twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
We will publish a SDK/API preview within the next two weeks. If you send me a quick message to support(a)senic.com, I will make sure you'll be informed.
twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
Awesome. Thanks for the feedback. AutoCAD is in our top 10. A lot of people want to see this integration for various uses.
twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
yes, that's one of the things that our old customers were missing. Combining there measurements with geo-location, time, other sensors etc.
twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
Thanks for pre-ordering one of the devices. We come from the measurement Industry and were struggling with the same problems. We designed Senic to be the most flexible device it could be. We will give out a few apps for iOS and Android that relieve the biggest pain for people (mostly in the building industry) but will keep developing more applications (new apps, integration into existing software, Linux support etc.) If you have any suggestions or questions, please write us. We want to learn as much as possible and make it the best product on the market.
twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
Three months is a really short time for a hardware company which forced us to postpone sleeping until after Demo Day :) Money wise, it was kind of tough considering the cost for prototyping, 3d printing, flights from Germany etc. But I would say it gets you where you need to be if you're resourceful enough.
twald··on Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
Hey, my name is Toby from Senic. We're focusing on these simple solutions for the building industry first because they are under really high cost and time pressure and it help them the most. With our SDK and API, it's a really flexible product. We're already working on integrating it into different robots etc for some of the mentioned functions. If you have any good suggestions, please drop me a line.
twald··on German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents
I'm from Germany. Havn't read anything about this on news or tech sites for weeks.
twald··on Files and folders
I believe there will always be a file system NEXT to search. Think about it.

You're at home looking for your keys. First thing you do is ask your girlfriend if she knows where the keys are. If she doesn't know you start looking for it in a categorical way: Which rooms were you in today? Where do you usually leave your keys?

I feel like search is the convenient way and will be number one. Folders are a human's natural tendency to create backup plans in case of unexpected uncertainty.

twald··on Why we're building Loom
I've been using Loom's beta version for about two months now. I have to be honest. At first I didn't completely get it and I didn't use it too much. I thought it was just a photo centric version of Dropbox. And it took me a few more weeks and a few "I wish I could show you this right now" moments until I did get it and started appreciating a few of it's features.

I've been traveling a lot over the years and it is such an uplifting feeling to meet somebody again after some time, to share some "good old times" pictures and reconnect. One of the things about Loom is that it stores a low res. version of your pictures on your phone and allows you to stream full res. in no time, so I have pretty much all my pictures of the last 10 years on my phone. I've also found some really interesting use cases at work lately...

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