pipbip
Field intelligence
Smartphones are slot machines. That's the industry. That's the tragedy.
I'm over it.
Started building because I wanted a device I'd actually use. Not a rectangle that wants something from me. Something that works when there's no signal. Something I own. Something that feels like they pulled it out of a classified drawer in Hawkins and never told the public what it actually did.
Don't care about spec sheets. Care about whether it survives a week in a bag. Whether I can use it on a ridge in Nepal. Whether it feels right when I pick it up in the dark.
That's what I chase.
Twenty years of building. Shenzhen factories. Millions of units shipped. Built a billion-dollar consumer brand for the world's largest telco. Deep manufacturing networks across India and China. People who know how to build things that survive a drop test, not just a demo.
Doesn't matter.
What matters is I still haven't found the device I want.
So I'm building it.
Built on these:
Privacy isn't a feature. It's the foundation.
If you can't fix it, you don't own it.
The grid goes down, you're not helpless.
Don't throw away the whole thing when one part breaks.
This thing should still work when your phone is a paperweight.
Founder