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Alex Castillo

Crown™ - Shift into focus

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The Crown guides you into a focused state and helps you stay there. It aligns your brainwaves in the right patterns for your optimal flow. Discover the songs that expedite your flow and help you find the zone using the Neurosity app with your Spotify account.

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Matias Nisenson
Love it!
Alex Castillo
Maker
@matiasnisenson Thank you, Matias!
AJ
Maker
@matiasnisenson Thanks for all your support!
Jeanette Snyder
Where do you see neuratech going in the future and what usecases do you think are going to become massive?
AJ
Maker
@jeanettesnyder We're going to help millions of programmers master the art of shifting into focus. Once we help them, we'll move on to other knowledge workers and students with purpose built devices and experiences. We'll continue to drive a pro version, the Crown, for decades as sensor technology changes and improve.The trillion dollar opportunities will come from the insights we get about how brains degrade over time with age, and what actions can we take to increase the amount of time before a neurodegenerative disease takes over.
Arron Webb
Apart from finding flow state, what is the most common application for this kind of tech?
AJ
Maker
@arronwebb meditation
Antoine Hésèque
Awesome! Can't wait to receive mine.
AJ
Maker
@antoinehsq ohhh yea!! you're gonna love it
Slava Bobrov
@alexcastillo, @andrewjaykeller congrats guys! 🧠
Alex Castillo
Maker
Yunus Ozcan
It is amazing! Another great product that doesn't get the attention it deserves on product hunt.
Alex Castillo
Maker
@yunus_emre_ozcan Thank you, Yunus! You are too kind 🙏🏼
John Higgins
Do you have a research paper or reference of scientists who could confirm any of this?
Ali RA
Interesting. Do you have supporting data?
Stas Voronov
The idea looks great! As far as I know, determining the degree of concentration by EEG is a non-trivial task, many (like NeuroSky) gave very inaccurate information about the degree of focus. Muse eventually removed this functionality from their API. @alexcastillo How do you solve this issue? Also It's not clear from the landing page how you provide neurofeedback, will there be some kind of real-time interface or post facto analytics? More interesting is the user case, how this will help to achieve the state of the flow
Alex Castillo
Maker
@stas_voronov Thank you! We work with neuroscientists to develop personalized AI models for each of user combined with a larger base model. Our app integrates with Spotify to provide Neurofeedback via music. We also have a dashboard where you can explore all the data.
Nate Desmond
Setup was very sketchy (literally took 3 hours across multiple attempts on both Android and iPhone to get the thing to connect to wifi) Boot sequence takes 30-90 seconds (literally faster to make a cup of coffee) Heavy sudo-science vibes (this thing basically just plays energetic music on a 5 minute loop) For people ordering internationally, know that Neurosity doesn't process local sales tax properly (got hit by a surprise $120 cash on delivery import bill) Customer service is pretty much bottom barrel (when I complained, they literally just responded with a copy/paste from there TOS - literally no human touch) Suffice to say, I'm returning. I'll update here if they find some way to refuse to honor their claimed return policy.
Alex Castillo
Maker
@natedesmond Hi Nate, thank you for trying out the Crown. I really appreciate your feedback. We'll keep working on improving the boot time. Early on, we decided it was worth the wait for being able to run machine learning on the device. Since hardware architecture runs Linux, it is closer to a computer than a microcontroller. When we are done with the optimizations, we'll release a new OS that will update via air. About the product and the music, I'm sorry you feel this way. The Neurosity app has a copy of the white paper where it explains how brain entrainment works. Our users in Discord have posted their results. You are welcome to join and see what other people has to say. As for customs fees, we are very clear we ship from the US and unfortunately, import tax is not something we can charge our customers. As we grow our team of 3, we'll work on setting up distribution center around the world, including your country. Even for any big company, this is a multi-year process. We'll keep everyone updated as we continue to make progress on this front. Our customer service team is still learning. The return was not refused, they just ask for a reason for the record so we can work on improving our product. We have never not accepted a return, even when it's outside the time window we offer. Thank you again for the feedback, Nate. It means a lot to us that you gave it try.
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