SubscribeSaw this today Instabeat and while I was initially curious, I think they’ve missed some vital opportunities to make a valuable tool.
I like the concept of Instabeat: heads-up-display for swimmer’s heart rate plus tracking and logging for other swim metrics; however, I think they could have done so much more.
Rather than just coloured LEDs for HR target, they could have used a multi-line LED display and shown similar data to what you’d find in a garmin swim or finis swimsense. I’d have liked to see them use a multi-line HUD to show distance, time, laps, lap-splits, hr, and hr zone. They could have even built in a metronome like the Finis Tempo Trainer and had a pretty amazing product. Granted with the on-goggles mount they’d never be able to show stroke count or SWOLF scores, but that’d be ok if they had everything else.
I wish Instabeat luck but won’t be funding them. I stick with my swimsense or garmin swim and finis aquapulse until something better comes along.
by Hind Hobeika, on April 28 2013 @ 6:25 am
Hey! I am the founder of Instabeat. I was wondering if you were willing to chat about the features you were expecting or would like to see. I understand your point, and I realize there are many more features we could add with the same design. But we wanted to release an MVP to test the waters, and take it step by step since we are a startup 🙂 Let me know if you are interested in having a longer conversation! Cheers, Hind