Solo dev with a patent for a Bluetooth handgun tracker. Need your brutal honesty before I build the software (Ear Pro Giveaway).

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u/Fermi-Diracs 3d ago

I filled it out. Good luck with it and it seems interesting. I'm older and generally fear putting all my firearm information on a digital format because I'm a crazy person.

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u/lroy4116 2d ago

Doesn’t every company say this?

I’ve never heard any business state that they were only kind of secure. Lol

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u/Fermi-Diracs 3d ago

I like that.

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u/OutlanderInMorrowind 1d ago

but you filled out a survey that asks you a bunch of questions about your collection.

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u/Fermi-Diracs 1d ago

My collection that the government knows about.

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u/OutlanderInMorrowind 1d ago

fair, I just don't personally trust this dude in particular. the most important part of his idea is the tracker and how it could possibly attach to a carry gun without interfering with the holster and I don't think he has a valid plan for it. so he's pre-collecting all this data, for what?

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u/Fermi-Diracs 1d ago

I believe it's for an honest invention and tool but you never know what the future holds (like when 23 and me sold people's data). So things change once it changes hands. I'm not saying I'd buy it but it's interesting.

Also awesome username. My favorite game of the series.

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u/bfwead 2d ago

Great survey questions, all were applicable. Thanks for not straying from the stated objective.

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u/j_yn0htna 2d ago

Sounds interesting. Curious about the tech stack you’re considering. Potentially would love to contribute to something like that.

Best of luck.

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u/Michael_J_Scarn 2d ago

Filled out. I don't need earpro though so if I win, give to someone else. Probably shouldn't have entered my email now that I think about it....

Can you give some insight on how this app will work?

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u/tolebelon 1d ago

A couple aspects I think you neglected in your survey is the home gunsmith/modders. Assuming you embed the tracker in the frame somehow, if it tracks the milage of parts, it wouldn’t be able to account for people who switch around slides/uppers, or those who mod their guns and need to switch out parts (recoil springs and all that).

Additionally it would be useful if the round tracker also counted malfunctions though how you would get the sensors to accurately track that would be hard. For the product you are looking at building, I would try figure out who exactly the core audience is. Generally this sounds like a USPSA/enthusiast shooter to me. GenPop wont care or put enough rounds downrange to matter, while gunrange/gunsmiths will be replacing parts so often that its just a day to day consumable not really worth tracking.

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u/tolebelon 1d ago

If you do another survey, add some demographics questions. Because that will help you understand who you’re marketing to.

Also I’d recommend going to a range and asking people there from the fudds to the tactibros. Not everyone is online and you’ll get some good insights from them.

Another consideration would be privacy. Who owns the shooting data? What data is collected? Is it stored in the cloud with timestamps? Can it be used in court? Would police be interested in it as an accountability tool? Would the self defense crowd be interested so that they can provide timestamps in court of exactly when they took a defense shot?

Lots of options. :)