Hi!
Currently we are working on a sensor for skateboards to track the tricks performed, analyse the progress and to compete with friends. Could you help us by filling in the survey below? It will just take a couple of minutes and you would help us a lot!
https://fontysfhmm.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ePU2g8lOaUYNRLo
Thank you!
Are you the same people who tried to do this last time? Or the time before? Or the time before?
These things never work.
Actually, first question on the second page is âHow much is your net income per month?â
Itâs rude to ask that. This is a skateboard forum and there havenât been any questions about skateboarding on your survey yet, so fuck answering any more of that. Iâm guessing you donât skate or know anything about skateboarding, and - as many have before you - thought an app that records tricks would work and be wanted. It wonât.
I dont need a sensor to tell me my board has been stationary in the garage for the last 365 days.
Tried to do the rest but one of the questions has untickable answers, and you canât move past it.
If you canât navigate the template for an online survey, I donât trust you to make an app.
Iâm out.
Sorry man, I did not know it would offend people. It is not obligated to answer that question if you do not feel cool with it. I am asking that question to have a better indication on which target group to aim on. But if more people will feel the same way I will definitely delete that question.
I am doing my internship at Urban Sports Performance Centre, we are a organization who is trying to bring Urban Sports to a higher level with new innovative products and coaching professional urban sporters.
Sorry if it offended you!
I know this is your job, and I can imagine the kind of organisation it is.
Youâre acting like you want to speak to skateboarders about a skateboard app, and before you even mention skateboarding youâre trying to figure out how much money youâre likely to be able to get from people. Or how rich skateboarders are. That makes me think youâre not doing this for entirely wholesome reasons.
For YEARS, people have been coming on here (and the previous version) trying to push an app idea, and itâs always the same. Sensor on your board, app on your phone. And it doesnât work. The only app any skateboarder needs on their phone to check out how well theyâre doing is Instagram. The video camera and Instagram. Itâs too late to try to invent something that measures how high youâre kickflipping or something.
Honestly, if youâre trying to appeal to people who do âtricksâ then these people are not going to be wanting extra costs and if they want to show off, they just film it in the same way they have for years.
Gadgets for skateboards never work, you canât innovate and evolve things that just work.
Youâd be wasting your time and money. This is not being negative either, this is saving you from disappointment.
Yeah, likewise.
Anybody who regularly visits this site will be able to tell you how many times this has been attempted, and how many times itâs failed. And itâs the same number.
Thanks for the feedback! It does not always have to be positive, I was just was wondering how the community would think about it because we also have spoken to many people who were positive about it. It is possible to grade the product for example in the survey, by having more insight it would definitely help us.
I know gyroscopes and other motion sensor gizmos are pretty small now. But its already safe to assume your product will get in the way of actually skating.
App ideas that people present here, that never take off, include:
A sensor stuck to your board that records your speed, height, number of flips etc. (Boring, unnecessary, wonât work the way it should, and video footage will always be the preferred way to show off)
A social app for uploading your video so other people can comment on it. (Instagram works for this)
A user-editable guide to skatespots. (Will never be reliable)
Now, if you could make something like intelligent sock suspenders that are tagged to the bottom of your trousers so when you do certain tricks or moves it always corrects the length of them. youâll never embarrassingly show off your ankles again and never fray your seams by treading on them. Trousers will be perfect again.
Peter Smolickâs trackie bottoms had velcro that attached to the back of his Osiris shoe.
Iâm sure the skate Olympians and team GB will be keen. But theyâre into skating for the wrong reason too.
Yeah, I remember, but lets think more futuristic. Something that knows where your heel and your kinee are at all times and can counter the forces made on the garment via motion, force, gravity etc and it will force the trouser to always stay at base line.
Maybe itâs got legs, maybe not.
Iâm not sure what this technology could add. I wear a Fitbit and keep track of my general fitness and activity levels. But with skate tricks you either make them or you donât, and you know which it is when you either ride away elated or crash and burn. So unless youâre talking about a general activity tracker optimised for skateboarding, Iâm not sure how it would work
Bullshit. People care about a thing called âstyleâ.
Not that this thing will help with that.
No need to be a cunt for no reason. That response is perfectly valid.
I think thatâs the problem - you make a trick or you donât. You do it with style or you donât. I canât see what technology can add
