We have apps and devices to track pretty much everything these days. With HERO we wanted to build a simple and delightful way to track medicine and supplements. HERO is a smart appliance and mobile app that stores, dispenses and manages vitamins and medicine for you and your family. Here are some of our favorite HERO features: • Dispense your medicine on schedule or on demand at the push of a button • Store up to 10 different types of pills -- any size, any shape • Receive notifications when it is time to take your pills, whether you’re at home or on the go • Receive alerts about loved ones, so you don't have to wonder if Mom took her pills this morning • Share HERO with your whole family, while still keeping your own pills safe and secure • Know if you are running low and order refills HERO ships Summer 2016 and we’re accepting pre-orders starting today. As a special thank you, we're offering Product Hunters a special $50 discount. Thank you for the support. Let us know what you think...

Can we use this for Skittles? :) All joking aside guys, great work. I can see this being very handy for people. Best of luck.

Hero Solves the "did I take that or did I mean to take that...or did I take it yesterday?" issue. I also like the access code, and wouldn't mind biometric recognition down the road. My 8-year old prides himself on breaking into my iPad and phone. "Ha, Mom, I guessed your new password." I wouldn't want my little digital lock picker to get medications.

You guys hit the nail on the head with the alerts about loved ones. That may be the biggest reason these things become popular.

"Let’s make people healthier by making medicine smarter." - good slogan but I'd prefer "Let's make people healthier by making them more educated and less stressful. Then pills will mostly disappear" :) It reminds me of multi-billion research of cancer treatment but it turns out eventually that cancer is actually and mostly a suppressed immune system disease because of environmental, social and psychological conditions (as well as diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, etc). Anyway, cool solution, it's awesome for some cases.

This looks like it could help eliminate most of the pain points when you/family member needs to take medication. I particularly like the notifications that a family member has taken their pills. Congratulations and good luck! 😀💊

This is awesome. In my teens I peaked at 18 pills a day and was super unmanageable. Hero also looks absolutely beautiful, being able to have it out in the open is really great, way less awful then leaving out bottles and bottles of pills. You feel self conscious as a younger person with all those meds.

Hello! I think your product is going to help so many PEOPLE! However I have an alternative use case you may want to consider.. I have a friend who has a really sick dog and he complains that it's a full time job administering meds.. This leads me to conclude that your product will help people keep track of PET medications as well! ;) I know this is a small niche market.. But I hope this was still beneficial for you to read! :) Thanks, Jaswinder Brar

looks like it will be a cool product; especially for elderly people. It's similar to a device that I have. HERO is kind of an electronic version: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0...

Really impressed with how practical the product is... didn't overdo the tech or user experience, which is easy to do. Excited to see Hero live in the wild.

Any idea what your estimated ship date might be?

This is really great. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones but I only take 1-2 pills / day, so it's a little overkill. I've tried NFC tags, reminders, alarms, DO buttons, none seem to really work for me.

Congrats @kalvepuri & team - good products take time!

Some medicines should be maintained at room temperature and should be air-tight .How do you handle this inside the hero dispenser ?

I commend your attacking a worthwhile problem, drug adherence. I do believe that the adherence solution of the future that no-one is currently building or researching is a cheap pharmacokinetic verification tool that would allow doctors to reward adherence. We have no way today to detect if someone has taken their meds. That's the next big breakthrough. Maybe something exists on the frontier of electroplethysmography. There's quite a few companies who track inventory counts on drug prescription refills as a proxy for knowing if a patient has taken their meds. This is only half the battle. From a gerontology perspective, there's a large number of drugs that require different temperature settings. I'm curious about the design process for this device and how you approached the average distribution of drugs that a patient is taking. @kalvepuri , which patient population are you targeting?

Who is your target customer for this product!!

@kalvepuri I love this concept - the design is beautiful and well designed. Curious - is there a weight-sensor underneath the pill cup that's used to verify the pills have in fact been taken? Or, is it a proximity sensor - once the cup is removed from the base, it registers as taken?

Like the concept very much. Adherence being a very heavy issue now, and in the years to come. Dispenser filling and Hero programmation could be an impossible challenge for elderly, however. Would suggest to add remote-programmation by pharmacy over wi-fi, and dispenser tray preparation at pharmacy, sealed at pharmacy, ready to be placed in the device, to avoid - confusion between pills (when you're 90, green or blue may be the same) - confusion / misconfiguration of dispenser through app screen or device rotary wheel / screen.

What a great idea and helpful to many with chronic illnesses. Well done!

Gorgeous design and fits a true human need.