Description
Jules Goldberg didn't believe his wife when she said he snored, so he taught himself to code and built SnoreLab to find out.
He explains what building SnoreLab has taught him about which snoring remedies work, and why your phone can do more for sleep tracking than you might think.
On this episode of Trending Forward, hosts Peter Horan and Dan Gaul talk with Jules Goldberg of Reviva about SnoreLab and Sleepwave. Jules explains why SnoreLab measures snoring rather than trying to stop it, how a tester named Brian led to the wedge pillow becoming one of the app's top-performing remedies, and why mouthpieces and positional treatments work for some snorers but not others. He shares how his own snoring progressed to sleep apnea and a CPAP machine, why hypopnea is so hard to measure, and the BreathFlow language he created for reduced breathing. He then demonstrates his pure tone "super sound" motion sensing, which uses an inaudible tone from a phone's speaker to detect movement and breathing, and explains how it powers Sleepwave's motion-sensing smart alarm. He also covers how phone tracking compares with watches and rings, where to place your phone, his move from economics into engineering, and running a business with no investors.
Read it here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-snoring-problem-that-launched-a-tech-company-how-one-entrepreneur-is-reinventing-sleep/
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 A snoring complaint and the idea for SnoreLab
3:57 Measuring snoring, and why there's no single solution
6:08 A wellness app, not a medical device, and the wedge pillow discovery
9:38 Mouthpieces, positional treatments and Jules's CPAP
11:17 Skiing, sleep apnea, hypopnea and BreathFlow
17:16 SnoreLab as a first step toward treatment
19:50 The flaw in phone sonar and the pure tone idea
26:05 Live demo and breathing detection from a phone
28:59 Sleepwave and the motion-sensing smart alarm
32:54 Phones vs wearables and where to place your phone
37:49 From economics to engineering, bootstrapping and what's next
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