Timbre

Stay connected. Save your eyeballs.
Voice control for your chat apps in one place.
Everything on-device.

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

10,000 years of human communication. And we're still building.

Smoke signals. Conch shells. Postal systems. Flags. Telegraph. Broadcast radio. The home telephone. Then email.

Today we send messages at the speed of light. Office workers spend half their work week doing it.

Adult myopia is up 68% since 1970.

New tech breeds new problems.

Timbre is how we catch up to ourselves.

Voice first. Eyes up.

[potato chip @p_chip1]

@naval saving people from becoming nearsighted is the mission

@Timbrexyz is the vehicle

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

Join the waitlist: https://t.co/sWvPvQ7RfW

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

Screens are not the problem, the amount of time spent squinting to read thousands of messages/day is.

It's literally making you blind!

Timbre uses voice to take your eyes off the screen without hindering productivity.

[potato chip @p_chip1]

Late to the party, but cool insight on dark mode and myopia. Need to check out this research.

Here are more insight on nearsightedness ...

Myopia rates are up and to the right globally past 50 years, most prevalent in Asian countries, and the problem is complicated.

> Children are spending less time outdoors: sunlight (Vitamin D) hardens the eyeball during eye development in young people.

> Cultural and occupational expectations: normalize insanely long working/school hours, leading to more time doing near work on average.

> Genetics: some people are more likely to have eye problems because of their genetics.

Common misconception frames blue light as bad for eyeballs, when in reality, blue light affects your circadian rhythm. Second order effects could be an inability to fall asleep, leading to even more screen time or near work.

The rub lies in the amount of near work a person does and if they developed their eyes properly at an early age.

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

The average digital worker switches apps ~1,200 times/day. Locking back in after each context change, burns ~4 hours/week.

Over a year that’s 5 weeks (9% of work time) lost to context switching.

Source: Harvard Business Review, 2022

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

Explaining Timbre at the bar to a friend:

[potato chip @p_chip1]

here's my pitch:

The average white-collar worker spends 20+ hours answering emails and sending messages, you're probably closer to 30 since you're here. The precent of nearsighted adults is up 68% since 1970. What I'm doing is combining all your inboxes into one, private voice app to save your eyeballs for when you're old af. It also keeps your from switching apps, boosting producitivity.
https://t.co/JjUc81KUUp

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

Join the waitlist today. https://t.co/sWvPvQ7RfW

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

10,000 years of human communication. And we're still building.

Smoke signals. Conch shells. Postal systems. Flags. Telegraph. Broadcast radio. The home telephone. Then email.

Today we send messages at the speed of light. Office workers spend half their work week doing it.

Adult myopia is up 68% since 1970.

New tech breeds new problems.

Timbre is how we catch up to ourselves.

Voice first. Eyes up.

[Timbre @Timbrexyz]

"people used to destroy their eyes sending and replying to messages and emails on their computer"

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

“people didn't used to be able to send money on evenings or weekends”

[potato chip @p_chip1]

fun fact: slack users send 92 messages per day and check the app 13 times daily on average

now imagine the resulting strain on your eyeballs compounded over years