Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

building around internet connectivity being ambiguous

8 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief exchange, Speaker A raises concerns about the reliability of internet connectivity for products used by field workers in sectors such as maritime, forestry, port operations, and mining. Speaker B explains their solution, called "Magic Sync," an offline‑first approach that lets the user interface run locally on the device regardless of network quality. The system sends small, efficient data packets and intelligently syncs in the background, adapting to varying signal strength. This design enables faster operation than competing tools when connectivity improves, while still functioning when the connection is poor or absent.

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Your product serves field workers in verticals like maritime operations, forestry, port operations, miners. But I guess like one of, one of the risks that we thought about as we were making the investment was like, what happens when like internet, like is internet connectivity being ambiguous? Like how do you think about building around that?
Yeah, so one of the differentiators we have is the Magic Sync that enables to operate the UI regardless of internet service and then sync smartly depending on the different signal. So because of that approach and because we needed to send small packages as efficient as possible with low bandwidth, when we have better signal, we operate faster than the other tools because it operates locally in the phone anyways and it's syncing in the background.