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Show HN: The first smart interactive chair for standing desks

by chaibiker on 2/3/22, 7:49 PM with 5 comments

  • by chaibiker on 2/3/22, 7:50 PM

    Hi HN, as a person with back pain from working at a desk I started Movably to find a way to move and change postures much more often without interrupting my deskwork or concentration.

    Here’s a video of how it works: https://youtu.be/dC__YxuEGBU

    We think the right problem to solve is how do we to prevent back and health issues with movement but without disturbing our focus. The magic with Movably is that it all works at one standing height so it isn’t disturbing like raising/lowering a sit-stand desk (which almost no one does often enough) or walking on a treadmill. Because your center of gravity maintains its relationship to the work surface it becomes automatic really quickly. And sitting is just a posture too, you can sit when you need to (just not too much!).

    If you happen to be in the Bay area, NYC, or Boston sign up to try it for a week and give us feedback here: https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J, we have chairs circulating and more coming online.

    Thank you!

  • by eps on 2/4/22, 2:13 PM

    Adjusting table height between standing and sitting positions is a matter of 15-20 seconds and a single button press. It's just an absolute non-issue. So this looks like a solution in search of a problem to be honest. Or perhaps there is a problem, but it's just a very niche one.