As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
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Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back
TL;DR We’re making a new Pebble-style smartwatch. Want one? Sign up here - rePebble.com I started working on Pebble in 2008 to create…
Remember how awesome PebbleOS is?
While getting things ready for the relaunch , I asked some Pebblers to share videos or things that they love about PebbleOS. It’s time to…
Beeper is joining Automattic
Beeper And The Power Of Protocols - Podcast
Beeper – Moving Forward
Introducing Beeper Mini – get blue bubbles on Android 💙
The better, smarter future of messaging | The Vergecast
Introducing Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
Last year, I had an idea for a fun side project – I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and…
Beeper State of the App (Spring 2023)
We’re building the best chat app on Earth
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
My name is Eric Migicovsky and I love small phones. It’s weird because I am 6'6" but I never enjoyed using a large phone. I loved the Sony…
Success and Failure at Pebble
I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…
Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
While working on Pebble, we ran into a lot of issues as we tried to enable messaging from the watch. For example, we never figured out how…
The Universal Communication Bus
From the desk of Eric Migicovsky Edit : Interested in what you read below? Check out Beeper , an app that we built to solve this problem…
Announcing Startup School Winter 2020
Startup School - How to talk to users
2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough - if you look at the products I build…
Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech
2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School
Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
Announcing Startup School Beijing
What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…
The time of our lives
Verge interview at CES 2016
2025 Note - Behind the scenes, Pebble was a mess. We were about to do a layoff and enter the final year…
Pebble starts shipping
Verge interview at CES 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
Kickstarter 1 Campaign Updates
Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!
Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
Final post on the inPulse blog
Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch
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