02 Apr 2014
Josh

Sharing your inbox for fun and profit

Some of the best solutions are born of laziness. To be a programmer, after all, is to find the laziest solution to a problem. So it's quite handy that my solution for our Hello Code email addresses turned out to have a valuable side effect.

Virtual inboxes

Rather than ...

10 Mar 2014
Belle

Frequently asked questions and commonly thrown criticisms

We were lucky enough to get some surprise attention around Exist in the past month. It was fun to see so many people looking at Exist and to discuss our plans and why we’re so excited about building it. Of course, not everyone was convinced immediately that we’re ...

16 Dec 2013
Josh

What we've learned about Exist and communication

Recently I sent out an email to everyone on our Exist waiting list. I wanted to share it on the blog too in the interests of transparency, and to talk about what we learned from emailing everyone.

Dear Exist family, friends, and lovers,

Recently we applied to a startup incubator ...

14 Dec 2013
Belle

How we do a startup in our spare time

Dec 2013

Right now Josh and I are both working on Exist around our day jobs.

On the one hand, this takes the pressure off Exist so that we can focus on making the product awesome without having a definite monetisation strategy in place yet. On the other hand, it ...

08 Dec 2013
Belle

Self-tracking and privacy: how do they go together? Quantified Self weekly links

1. No device needed: clothes to track your workout

If you’re really serious about tracking your workouts, you might want to try Athos, clothing with built-in trackers that monitor your heart rate, muscle effort, balance and time spent exercising, among other stats.

Pre-orders are open now for customers in ...