Oof. I wouldve loved something like Watchy. Extra painful when you use your own time to basically fix their product for them but they just don’t have any clue what they are doing
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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It is painful, but it's not all lost. First, the 2.0 watchy that can be bought on aliexpress is pretty good already and I'm not comfortable with posting this for I think obvious reasons, but I'm working on an ideal watchy for me: https://github.com/Szybet/Yatchy It won't be a commercial product or anything, it will be just a perfect watchy for people who want something better than 2.0
I was burned on the first gen Watchy - most shipped with a busted real-time clock. It was a watch that couldn't keep time. In order for them to do a replacement, they required a decent amount of technical knowledge that I didn't have in order to run commands and spit out a report. I was using the watch as a tool to learn, but wasn't at that stage.
The lesson I learned was don't buy pre-release hardware.
What's watchy?
Citation of the first sentence from the link I posted: "Watchy is an open source eink watch, with open hardware and software"
I got a first generation badgy, and it had an issue that prevented it working with the battery.
Sqfmi said they'd sent out a replacement part to fix it, but never got back to me.
I love the ideas they have, but I don't trust them.
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