Pebble: How to Build a Smartwatch: Software – Setting Expectations and Roadmap

Summary

Thanks to everyone for posting pics of their new Pebble 2 Duos! This blog post is MUCH longer than I intended. It’s way too long. I can’t imagine that anyone will finish it. How about this - if you have any questions about what’s written here - post a comment below and I will try to do a follow-up Tick Talk episode soon answering these questions and generally summarizing the whole post. We’ve sent an email to everyone who pre-ordered a P2D to confirm their address and order information. Search your email/spam for [email protected]. If you haven’t received it, please email us and we’ll help get your watch shipped out asap! We’ve now manufactured all the P2Ds that will ever be made, and sent them to our fulfillment warehouse.P2D shipping stats:70% - delivered14% - in transit16% - will be shipped over next weekHonestly, the last 2 months have been pretty stressful. Getting P2D through production was a major pain (which is normal for hardware products - luckily I had repressed all my memories of this or else I would have never begun doing hardware again 😂). We’ll finish shipping out batch two about 2 months behind my initial August estimate - which is simultaneously good (could have been longer!) and bad (gosh, I should have known better than to ever have put a date down). Pebble 2 Duo is sold out! We are not making more. If you want a Pebble, I recommend pre-ordering a Pebble Time 2 soon.Guess what? Shipping out thousands of brand new watches is not actually our finish line - it’s the start of the real software saga. Now y’all are actually using it and finding all kinds of interesting little bugs and features that aren’t working yet (as I explicitly mentioned in March, not all features would be ready at launch). Keep in mind, during the first era Pebble Tech Co had 180 full time employees. We currently have 5 full-time people including myself. Why not hire a bunch more people? Well, that’s one of the reasons why the original company doesn’t exist anymore. This time aro...