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ILY — The family phone. Everyone in your family, all in one place.
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Hi everyone,
As a dad, I found it incredibly challenging to keep my 3 young kids connected to their grandparents and cousins, and to me when I was traveling. Facetime and Skype are great. But young kids often can't use phones or tablets unsupervised, so they're dependent on our devices and schedules.
We created ILY to be the first real communication device for families. It sits in your home, always on, always charged, and safe for kids. ILY is hardware and software that is extremely easy for young children and older generations to use. And it’s completely platform agnostic, so you can make calls or send messages between an ILY and desktop, iOS and Android devices using the ILY app.
Thanks for hunting us @eriktorenberg! Any questions / feedback, find me here!
@ilan this looks innovative and awesome! I know my friends with family abroad will love it! Check it out @thepaulcurran
So wish we had this a few years back when kids were around and grandparents still alive. Looks excellent!
@helencrozier Completely agree on the grandparents sentiment. I think they are the ones that would benefit the most from social networks and the closeness that tech can give, given their often solitary states.
Great example of simplifying technology that already exists to provide a very elegant solution for a very specific use-case. If smart phones are the Swiss army knives then this is the dedicated Phillips head screwdriver. Nice one.
Congratulations on the launch, @ilan! Ily looks beautiful and, unlike every other startup that claims to do so, will actually make the world a better place by helping families communicate. Wishing you guys lots of luck!
How awesome and light promo video is! Absolutely love it! Very important product with bright and warm idea!
Great idea. Totally see a lot of value with this. Quick question. How do you configure this and add members etc? Also, what's the plain looking block next to the speakers? Looks like a flippable cover. Just curious!
@manikarthik Thanks Mani! You can add members via many different ways, we've spent a couple of months working on the Onboarding experience alone. You can add family members using their phone numbers, their name, their emails, and have them install the app on mobile, tablet, desktop, etc. in case they don't own the device
@manikarthik oh and about the "block next to the speakers" it's a wireless handset in case you want privacy for your calls. The back cover is interchangeable, hence the different colors :) The back cover will automatically update the UI background
I love the idea. It's such a painpoint for parents to have to lend their personal or pro smartphone to their kids to communicate with the larger family - it's the kind of constraint and absence of solution that directly contradicts the age of mobility. Paradoxically this fixed piece of hardware could bring a lot of flexibility to communications within the family.
Question : do you provide more than just communications/phone? Could one use this as a family console for entertainment or other types of interaction? ;)
@nicoprincen thanks Nicolas! Yes the idea is to be able to use ILY as your family hub, so indeed, we could imagine some of its upcoming features :)
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