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Front Page of Reddit!

Today Podo hit #1 on /r/gadgets and is the Project of the Day on the home page of Kickstarter! Woohoo!

There are currently 2 weeks left to get your Podos at the Kickstarter exclusive price of $49. We are 600%+ funded and are hitting and announcing new stretch goals every day! What are you waiting for!

podolabs.com/kickstarter

https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/54vmwk/meet_podo_the_stick_and_shoot_camera_designed_to/

Podo version 2 LIVE on Kickstarter!

Early bird units available for $39~

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/podolabs/podo-the-first-stick-and-shoot-camera-the-sequel

Are you an awesome person who likes awesome photos? Podo sticks to any surface and shoots perfect photos for you, every time. Order your Podo today! www.podolabs.com

Podo featured in INSIDER video!

Check out the neat little feature here:

https://www.facebook.com/Insiderinventions/videos/871182973017248/

And if you didn’t know already, we have shipments going out every day now! Order yours today at podolabs.com ~ ^^

New video on our Youtube channel

Just to spread some fun on a Wednesday :D

What happens when a T-Rex tries to take a selfie? Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhvce9cuT0&feature=youtu.be

App updates released today!

Hi everyone!

We have new versions of the iOS and Android apps live now on their respective stores. These apps should fix many of the initial launch bugs and add new functionality, especially to video.

Thank you for your support and stay tuned as we continuously improve the software for your Podos!

If you don’t have your Podo yet, we’re shipping now and also opened up to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea! Don’t wait any longer, #everybodyin :)

New Podos in Stock!

Surprise, black and white Podos came early! Unfortunately we are still out of Red stock, but they are projected for 6/20 and who knows, they may come early too.

Blue, Black, and White Podos are in stock and shipping now! Orders were submitted to the fulfillment center over the weekend, and they should ship out tonight or tomorrow night latest.

Thank you for waiting patiently, and #everybodyin!

Latest Shipping Schedule for Preorders from www.podolabs.com

Hi all,

Thank you for supporting us with you preorders and for waiting patiently through our manufacturing process. Today, we’d like to share the most up to date schedule we have for shipping out orders. Keep in mind that these dates may change for unforeseen circumstances, or even move up if we go faster than expected.

Today is June 6th

Blue: June 7th

Black: June 14 and June 17th

White: June 20th and June 24th

Red: June 24th and June 26th

As you can tell, our factory is cycling through colors one at a time in order to keep the production line moving as fast as possible. If you ordered more than one Podo, the entire order will ship together when ready.

These are the dates we will print your shipping label and package your Podo into boxes; you will receive a tracking number via email once the mail carrier picks up the package from the factory either the day of or the next day.

We are pushing the factory to produce as quickly as possible while maintaining quality, and thank you for your patience as we catch up to our back log of orders! Again, we are very grateful for your contribution in getting our product off the ground.

#everybodyin

Delivery Schedule

Hi All,

If you’ve placed a per-order at our website www.podolabs.com, thank you! We appreciate your support in making this production run happen with your commitment.

We do not have an exact date for delivery, but we will ship several hundred more Podos out within a week. If you placed an order with us in March or earlier, chances are good yours will ship out then.

We may not have the inventory for more recent orders, but rest assured production will not stop and we will be shipping out hundreds of more orders every week starting June 1. If you do not receive a tracking email in a week, please wait patiently as it will be coming soon!

Thank you again for your support, and have a great week!

#podo

New support page on podolabs.com

Hi Everyone,

We've just put up a new support page on our website. Please use it as a resource on troubleshooting connection problems, learning more about the features, and proper care. Also, the full user manual is available for download at www.podolabs.com/manual.

The link for the support page is: http://www.podolabs.com/info/#support

Thank you everyone for your continued support and patience. More orders were submitted for fulfillment over the weekend and there will be more today and at the end of the week. We know you've been waiting a long while but just a little while longer please!

Thank you everyone and have a great week.

May 17th shipping update and support

Hi All,

We really appreciate the kind words and feedback with problems we've been receiving from everyone! Thank you for understanding as we work out the kinks.

We're relieved to be shipping and expect the last units to be finished on May 31st. If you haven't received your tracking email yet, please bear with us and rest assured it is coming as quickly as possible! Within two weeks, all the units should be in the mail system.

We've contacted backers individually where we are having shipping problems, but as a reminder please play close attention to your tracking email when you receive it! If UPS fails to deliver the 1st time, they will leave a note and it will be your responsibility to contact them and retrieve your package. Otherwise, after 5 days it will be abandoned or sent back to China.

For Technical Support

Please email [email protected] with your phone model and description of problem. We are also working quickly on a support section of the website. Thank you for your help in working out the bugs!

Known bugs:

-Registering Podo does not show confirmation in app (rest assured it worked)

-Username does not register (we are implementing the backend for this in the next update)

-Podo disconnects/fails after transferring a long video (iOS only I believe, we're on it)

-No sound with video (we are syncing audio from the phone with the Podo video, coming in the next couple updates)

Please be patient with us as we handle the volume of emails recently. Thank you everyone for your support! And we love seeing pictures on social media you are tagging with @podolabs. Thank you.

First units have shipped!

Late last night, the first Podos have shipped out from our factory in China! Full disclosure: it was just a couple dozen units mostly to test, but 500 more will ship out tonight, with the rest (of the Kickstarter units) shipping twice a week throughout May. We're really excited for you all to receive your Podos shortly!

Tracking numbers did not seem to go out for these units so we'll check up on it when China wakes up and make sure it happens automatically in the future. For reference, this is what we see in our fulfillment software for one of the units:

If you haven't download the app yet, it is available now on both the Apple and Google app stores for you to preview and play around with. We hope to push out an update before most of you receive your units, so if you see any big problems let us know!

Thank you for being with us thus far and stay tuned for your tracking emails!

Important note: we can accommodate address change requests for 12 more hours if you email your new address to [email protected]. After this, Podo will ship to your address on file and we will not be responsible for redirecting the package. Thank you!

App available on App store! (Play store coming later tonight)

Woohoo! After having the status "Pending: Under review" with little update, the app was suddenly accepted today by the App store. You can search "Podo" or "Podo Labs" and the app showing our logo in white against a blue background should be available for download. Our target is to follow up with the Android app on the Play store later tonight.

Granted, there's not too much you can do considering most of the functions will require a connected Podo, but you can play around a bit and check out the app. Please bear with us and let us know if there are any bugs; we will be updating the app and submitting for approval constantly, targeting every two weeks, so rest assured the app will keep getting better after this first effort.

As far as the manufacturing schedule, the new packaging will be wrapping up shortly and material sent to our factory. After a couple days of kitting, or packaging the pieces into the boxes, the first weekly batch will ship out by the end of next week.

Thank you for your patience everyone! May is going to be a big month and we can't wait either.

April 20th update

Hey supporters,

We apologize for the slow update this month; it's been a challenging month to say the least. Sam and Eddie just got back from China and thankfully, left things in a good state back there.

Podos will ship next week! We know it's a little slower than we targeted, but they will begin shipping out directly to backers and will continue steadily throughout May. We expect all of them to be fulfilled by the end of May.

Production went smoothly enough, with a solid several hundred units assembled and approved for release. The challenge we ran into was certification of the packaging. Even though these were not slated for retail stores, Apple has strict requirements for how we state our device works with theirs. It was our mistake not being 100% compliant but after a few back and forths, they are happy and we re-printed all of the boxes with a rush order in order to start packaging the Podos. If anyone wants to produce a product in the future and needs any advice on packaging, be sure to email us for free advice!

Along with the packaging, our app needs to be reviewed by Apple as well. Though we submitted it weeks ago, we were not able to get a decision until the hardware and packaging as a complete package were finished and approved. We hope to hear back one way or another by Friday! If the app is not approved, we will need to make the fixes they require and re-submit. We submitted a rush request and are doing everything we can to ensure this happens as quickly as possible, but there is a small chance (if we are rejected at first) that the iOS app may not be accepted on the app store until mid May. Android will not have this problem and will be on the store targeted next Friday.

Besides these surprises that popped up, the mass production is underway and units are already being successfully produced! We're just tying up the loose ends now and these Podos will make their way to your door soon :)

April 1st update (from our Kickstarter)

Hi All!

Hope you haven't been the victim of too many April Fool's Day jokes, especially that Gmail one. Today our announcement is no joke—production is underway!

We will ship out Podos based on backer number and color, as the factory is willing to produce small rotating batches of color so we can stick to the backer order as best we can. We will notify you when your package has shipped and do our best to supply a tracking number as quickly as possible. As a heads up, we are unable to tell you exactly what day your package will ship as, by nature of a first manufacturing run, the situation is very fluid! We are making every attempt to produce faster than our initial, safe estimates.

Our current status is several hundred units have been made, but as they're the first in a large batch we need to debug and review them before the batches get larger. After debugging, another short factory holiday (Qing Ming Holiday 4/4-4/5), and a final review, we will ship these and another batch out together around the second week of April. We expect the rest to ship rapidly after that, and worst case the last Podos are shipped out in May.

Thank you for your patience with us on this journey. We know it was tough for you guys to wait but we really appreciate it! We'll do our best to get these out the door and redeploy our resources into making the app better and more powerful.

Cheers! And have a great weekend.

#everybodyin

March 14th update

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all had a great weekend! We've received an update about the production schedule and wanted to fill you in.

A first batch of PCBs (500) have been produced and are being validated this week. We're confident that they will not have problems and that we can breeze through PVT. Those PCBs will be assembled into final units and shipped out on April 1st. After that, the factory will send out another batch every week, with the final week being the week of April 25th.

This is our initial information and we will make every effort to pull in the schedule wherever we can!

Feb 26 Update

Hi Everyone,

Short update today, but wanted to check in and say we are on track for our March PVT/MP kickoff, with intended delivery in April. We have our FCC certification letter printed out and hanging on our office wall, and after closing and signing off on every open action item remaining, we are all lights-go to begin assembly once the materials arrive to the factory. Fingers crossed everyone—this is the final step!

Throughout assembly, we will provide updated shipping dates as we receive them. Currently, our prior mentioned April 19th date is the best date to go off of for now.

Thank you again for your patience and support! The team will be fully back from China starting Monday and focus on non-manufacturing related updates. As always, let us know if there's a topic you'd like to learn more about! Thanks everyone.

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