Hi HN, as a person with back pain from working at a desk I started Movably to find a way to move and change postures much more often without interrupting my deskwork or concentration.
We think the right problem to solve is how do we to prevent back and health issues with movement but without disturbing our focus. The magic with Movably is that it all works at one standing height so it isn’t disturbing like raising/lowering a sit-stand desk (which almost no one does often enough) or walking on a treadmill. Because your center of gravity maintains its relationship to the work surface it becomes automatic really quickly. And sitting is just a posture too, you can sit when you need to (just not too much!).
If you happen to be in the Bay area, NYC, or Boston sign up to try it for a week and give us feedback here: https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J, we have chairs circulating and more coming online.
thanks! (and will remember to debug mobile next time!) We have one European distributor signed up so will try come out across Europe as early as we can.
Adjusting table height between standing and sitting positions is a matter of 15-20 seconds and a single button press. It's just an absolute non-issue. So this looks like a solution in search of a problem to be honest. Or perhaps there is a problem, but it's just a very niche one.
Good point, and agreed, the time savings comparison is not the real problem. Upping the frequency of movement without interrupting work is probably the best long term path to preventing back and health issues for desk work. Studies are showing that standing desks are used an average of 1.5-2x per day to change position- which isn't even close to what is needed to prevent issues. Honestly most are basically unused. Changing position every 2-3 minutes, while working uninterrupted, and when you step away feeling physically as good as or better when you started is the goal for this. Getting this across will definitely be part of the challenge!
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 19.8 ms ] threadHere’s a video of how it works: https://youtu.be/dC__YxuEGBU
We think the right problem to solve is how do we to prevent back and health issues with movement but without disturbing our focus. The magic with Movably is that it all works at one standing height so it isn’t disturbing like raising/lowering a sit-stand desk (which almost no one does often enough) or walking on a treadmill. Because your center of gravity maintains its relationship to the work surface it becomes automatic really quickly. And sitting is just a posture too, you can sit when you need to (just not too much!).
If you happen to be in the Bay area, NYC, or Boston sign up to try it for a week and give us feedback here: https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J, we have chairs circulating and more coming online.
Thank you!
ps. Your interest form doesn’t have a submit button on mobile and at least on safari ios couldn’t register.