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Eric Migicovsky
10/13/18
@ Y Combinator
I thought of the name 'Pebble' while lying on a beach, two years before we actually made it, and I wrote it down in Evernote as a good name.
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A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky
@ Y Combinator
10/13/18
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
We designed Pebble by incorporating feedback from our first product, ensuring it worked with iPhones and included features that users wanted.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
I started working on Pebble back in 2008 while I was an engineering student at the University of Waterloo.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
I had a moment of realization when I pulled the first red Pebble watch off the assembly line on December 28, 2012, feeling that all our efforts had finally paid off.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
Pebble is lightweight, inexpensive, has a long battery life, and is open and hackable, which excites me about the community that supports it.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/13/18
@ Y Combinator
The hardest part of my journey with Pebble was the five years it took to achieve product-market fit, which involved a lot of trial and error.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
We highlighted three key features of Pebble: notifications and calls on your wrist, sports and fitness app integration, and customization options for watch faces, which had never been done before.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
When we launched on Kickstarter, we were just five people, none of whom had experience in consumer electronics, so we spent six months in Asia developing the first prototypes of Pebble.
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Eric Migicovsky
10/15/14
@ Y Combinator
It's mindboggling to see how far we've come from starting out to create a watch just for ourselves to now having a global community building innovative applications for Pebble.
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Oliver Anthony
05/19/25
@ Lex Fridman
I recorded my thoughts and lyrics on my phone, often revisiting and refining them over time, which helped shape the final version of my songs.