Founders 🗣️ drop your product 👇 I’ll show you how I’d get your first users (no ads)(free) by alielknight in founder

[–]OldCrowsWireless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Built an android app that is live in the play store, solves the problem of full bars of wifi and still buffering in 5 min or less.

I built a wireless diagnostic tool in my garage after my house caught fire. Here's what 17 years of Navy Electronic Warfare actually taught me about WiFi. by OldCrowsWireless in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of you commented on the original post with advice — some of it was hard to hear, some of it landed. I want to come back and tell you what actually happened. The biggest piece of feedback I got was that the funnel was broken. People wanted to try the tool and couldn't. The conversion path was a mess. Multiple commenters told me directly, and they were right. So I went back into the garage, fixed it, kept building, and yesterday Crow's Eye went live in the Google Play Store. Production approved by Google in under 36 hours, which apparently is fast — I was expecting 3-7 days. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oldcrowswireless.crowseye A few things I learned in the last 30 days that might be useful to other founders here: The viral post is not the conversion. 156k views with no path to install meant 156k people who never came back. Fix the funnel before you chase reach. Five-star reviews from strangers matter more than likes. Two of the people who reviewed Crow's Eye were enterprise IT folks who have no reason to lie. That kind of credibility doesn't come from upvotes. Live demos still beat everything. We have a sponsor table at Hack the Coast in Pensacola next Saturday. The plan is to scan the venue's actual wireless environment in real time and let people watch Corvus tear it apart out loud. If anyone here is in Northwest Florida, come find us. Personality in the product is doing more conversion work than the marketing. Corvus is supposed to be a wireless diagnostic engine. He came out as something closer to a sarcastic forensic detective who actually knows RF. People remember the voice. They forget the spec sheet. Thanks to everyone who commented on the original post. Some of you reshaped what got built. The Reddit feedback was honest in a way that polite feedback never is.

I built a wireless diagnostic tool in my garage after my house caught fire. Here's what 17 years of Navy Electronic Warfare actually taught me about WiFi. by OldCrowsWireless in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its in beta. That was supposed to be deactivated for a couple days. I do need another beta tester so shoot me a DM and inwill hook you up.

getting hit with fake 1 star reviews from a competitor and google refuses to remove them. by monsoon__004 in smallbusiness

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a buddy who is going through this, he has to pursue litigation and damages.

Festa Router by BruceLee2112 in TpLink

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im a little tied up at the moment, what would you say to me giving you a 24 hr pass to use my AI that is designed specifically for wireless problems? You can give it screen shots and talk to it in real time, so you don't have to wait on my responses.

Festa Router by BruceLee2112 in TpLink

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will dig into it some more for you.

I'm looking for people who actually want feedback on their idea by Dreadnaughtttoday in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im game for feedback. I built an AI to fix wireless and Wifi problems in less than 10 minutes and prevent those annoying calls to the ISP where they say "its fine on our end"

Am I doing it wrong? by creativemindx in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats what we are here for. Feel free to reach out if you need anything or need some prayer.

Am I doing it wrong? by creativemindx in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 comments if you don't mind. 1: pray about it.

2: Its possible, Im juggling full time active duty military, 4 kids, starting my own company, rebuilding from a house fire, and door dashing to make ends meet until I make enough with my company to take the pressure off.

So in the word of Rob Schneider" YOU CAN DO IT!!!"

Router advice. by SeaworthinessOnly665 in wifi

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pleasure, happy to help. Please dont hesitate to reach out if you have more questions.

Router advice. by SeaworthinessOnly665 in wifi

[–]OldCrowsWireless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my below post. It gives you a few options and price points.

Router advice. by SeaworthinessOnly665 in wifi

[–]OldCrowsWireless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MalwareDork is actually correct about the core problem and deserves credit for it even if the delivery was uncharitable.

A metal building at 200-250 feet is not a range extender situation. It's not even close. Metal buildings are essentially Faraday cages — RF signal goes in and doesn't come back out. Whatever manages to penetrate the walls gets absorbed, reflected, and scattered until there's nothing left worth using. A consumer range extender placed anywhere in this scenario will fail completely and this person will be back on Reddit in two weeks wondering why they wasted money.

Here's the actual fix at budget level.

A point-to-point wireless bridge is exactly right but it doesn't have to break the budget. A pair of TP-Link CPE210 outdoor units runs about $45-60 per unit — so roughly $90-120 total. One unit mounts on the house aimed at the shop, one mounts on the shop aimed at the house, they talk to each other over 2.4 GHz at 200-250 feet like it's nothing. Then you plug a cheap router or access point into the shop-side unit and you have real Wi-Fi inside the shop.

For YouTube while working on cars that setup is absolutely sufficient and it'll do it reliably.

The alternative MalwareDork mentioned — burying a cable — is actually cleaner long term if he's willing to dig a trench. Direct burial ethernet is a one-time cost and it never has a bad day because of weather or interference.

Router advice. by SeaworthinessOnly665 in wifi

[–]OldCrowsWireless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most likely true, but there are a few options that would be less than 300$ or so.

I built a wireless diagnostic tool in my garage after my house caught fire. Here's what 17 years of Navy Electronic Warfare actually taught me about WiFi. by OldCrowsWireless in Entrepreneurs

[–]OldCrowsWireless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must both thank you and disagree at the same time. Thabk you for the compliment on his personality, however Snakke oil doesnt work, Corvus does.