I have been quiet lately, but it is for some good reason.
I am turning my medical device company ( eyenetra.com ) into an open-source project.
As some of you may know, I spent the past 15 years trying to increase access to eyeglasses by developing and shipping a new class of vision-testing devices. Even though we shipped thousands of units and served millions of patients, Nostr made me realize what I was missing all along: true decentralization.
All of our hardware designs and software will be made available to the FOSS community to build their own vision-testing devices and services. And I am going to be working with design/manufacturing partners across the globe to bring them to the market in as many variations as we can.
It has been a long process but I finally have all approvals to make it happen. Thanks to all my shareholders who believed in this idea and allowed me to make it happen.
The future is bright.
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I joke. Congratulations on this milestone.
Wow that's awesome. Congrats 🎉 🌊🤙
There are some bored apes that need some eye help apparently
This is very laudable! You can still provide your own branding and set quality standards while allowing or even encouraging "cheap knockoffs" to sell "your" design.
Say no to dirty knockoffs.
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Congratulations. Builders build. Amazing stuff.
congratulations
Congrats Vitor, and thanks for making this open source!
VERY cool idea!!
And this is the day open hardware wins 🤙 congrats Vitor
We will see if it works... In one hand, it can free the tech from our own scaling limitations, in another hand, partners can easily destroy each other by racing to the bottom. We will see.
I also run a worldwide medical company, when I'm not shipping like crazy on the best #nostr android client 🤪
Who else?
I'm thinking of Raspberry as the prime example of successful open hardware. Everybody is stoked to learn the next release's specifications but dozens of companies build cheap replicas. Many still buy the more expensive brand while other brands establish as more or less reliable. A fascinating market.
Amazing 👏👏👏
Do these glasses have, invisible to the naked eye, QR codes embedded in the lens?? 🤔🤔🤔
They’ve needed eye help for a long time if they thought that shit was cool looking.
Excellent news! I'm proud of you and everyone involved in your project!
They’re still worth more than a bitcoin
This sounds amazing!! News like this is one reason I use Nostr! My brother-in-law is an optometrist— will spread the info because this stuff interests him. Good luck!
This is what I love to see. Take my sats!
Kudos for that! I truely wish you maximum success in that endeavour!
@gsovereignty this is amazing
Very cool, thanks and much success with this approach
Congratulations bro 💜
Top man vitor ! Top Man 🫂🤝
Amazing 👏👏👏
You sir are a legend.
Visionary!
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Eyenostra?
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I kept telling everyone you were an eye dentist an no one believed me
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Nostr doesn’t fix everything directly, it fix the world by influence user and builder
I don’t believe Vitor when he first mentioned it
Congratulations & best of luck 🍀
wow!
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Congratulations!
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awesome! congrats on going #opensource 🥳
I am still skeptical of your motivations.
That is fantastic Vitor!! Well done!
Amazing, a trail blazing decision! Let's hope you're the first of many
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Somehow I knew this meme would come in handy at some point:
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Legendary move by Vitor 🔥
Seeing things like this happen at The NOSTR leave me speachless.
Seeing you
@Vitor Pamplona taking tough decisions for major changes deserves all respect.
Hope your project will grow on this move.
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Awesome work. Kudos Vitor.
Great decision! Congratulations!! ⚡️
Wow that’s amazing! Do you anticipate a dip in revenue from this?
For sure. But It was either staying a small business forever or trying something else. We will see if it will work.
Congrats!
DM’ing you about helping in this project
I'm less impressed by amethyst now, but only because this right here blows me away!
Thank you for your service to humanity!
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It's really fascinating how a novel vision can open new energies and transform in better consolidated project and business.
Good luck!
PS: The three main product images in the homepage are linked to non https sub-domains, this prompt a nasty alert.
Impressive move 👏
Awesome project!
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