Drinking water is the simplest thing we can do to feel our best every day. But with daily distractions, millions of us don’t take care of ourselves the way we should. We simply forget.
HidrateMe is a smart water bottle that syncs to your phone to track your water intake and glows to remind you to stay hydrated.
Tech startup company Hidrate Inc. launched a Kickstarter campaign to develop its new HidrateMe, a “smart water bottle”. The campaign exceeds its goal of $35,000 and reached $64,500 within 3 days.
The HidrateMe bottle is a 24 oz. – 710 ml. reusable water bottle, made out of BPA free Tritan plastic. It’s dishwasher safe and comes with a leak proof cap. The sensor stick inside the bottle automatically tracks how much you drink throughout the day. It sends information to the Hidrate app on your phone and glows when its time to drink more water.
The battery is easily replaceable and sold in most stores, and it lasts over a year, so we never need to recharge it. The HidrateMe has a pour style mouth piece that’s simple to use.
The Hidrate app is fun and easy to use. It glows if we haven’t had anything to drink for an extended period of time to remind us to stay hydrated. The app is completely FREE and works on iPhone and Android. The app will be available for download winter 2015.
Starting with your height, weight, age and activity level the app calculates just how much water you should be drinking throughout the day.
Its easy to see your progress towards your goals, and you also receive reminders if you fall off track. The app also integrates with your wearables to help tune your water goals even more accurately to your activities. Using your location, the app can adjust your daily water goal depending on the temperature, humidity, and elevation of your surroundings.
There are quite a few other “smart” water bottles out there – both in and out of crowdfunding campaigns – the Trago smart bottle and the Hug water bottle in Kickstarter campaign, While the BluFit in Indiegogo campaign.
So why is HidrateMe, among all the bottles out there that seem to offer pretty much the same tracking and app features, doing so well from the start?
It’s all in the preparation the HidrateMe bottle creator Nadya Nguyen told TechCrunch.
“We did 80 percent of the work for the campaign before it even started,” she said. “Thanks to that, we rallied a large group of influencers in the fitness world to help us spread the word and had a big sign-up list with potential backers long before our Kickstarter launch.”
Nguyen also said she got a lot of feedback on the right price point, design and how to market the product before putting something up on the crowdfunding site.
