from Hacker News

I started Movably to take a crack at solving the whole "sitting is the new smoking", "the best posture is your next posture", and “you can't just exercise away the effects of sitting” problem.

The trick is to have enough movement to protect health and prevent issues, all without disrupting work flow.

We have come up with a smart interactive chair for your standing desk—the first of its kind. It lets you move easily, as often as every few minutes, between a set of postures over the course of a day. It works with you at standing height so it isn’t as disturbing as raising/lowering a sit-stand desk or walking on a treadmill. Because your center of gravity maintains its relationship to the work surface it becomes almost automatic really quickly. And with our chair normal sitting is just a posture too, you can sit when you need to (but not all the time!). This will give you an idea of how it works: https://youtu.be/dC__YxuEGBU

We have had good results with initial trials so far with a number of people saying this has reduced and even eliminated their back pain, soreness, etc. All without disrupting their productivity. In fact, some even reported that it enhanced productivity.

We would like to learn more about what types of usage/posture patterns work best for a broader group of users and different kinds of deskwork: coding, video editing, writing, gaming, etc. We'd love to find some current standing desk users interested in testing one of our chair prototypes for up to a week or two and give us feedback. We have chairs circulating in the Bay area, NYC, and Boston. If interested let us know here:

https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J

And am happy to answer any questions!

Thank you, Mark