About to start my GPS trackers brand, 10x cheaper. Thoughts?
Hi! So I manage a scooter rental agency with 90+ scooters and I created a custom solution that is perfect for me to avoid loosing them. Thinking to sell it to others.
I was using Airtags but it was a disaster because the battery dies after 6-9 months, up to 25 airtags max per icloud account, no location history, no exit zone alerts, and much more problems.
So I built a tracker based on Findmy that has a 3 years battery lifetime and made a software with many features. 30 days location history, alerts if the trackers enters/leaves zones, filter trackers by tag...
Also to be honest Findmy is great but it's not really accurate. The position given by Apple is actually the location of the iPhone that detects the tracker, not the tracker itself. That's why I added feature to get a more accurate position if the tracker doesn't move. It needs 8 detections to get a very accurate location (3m diameter circle).
Do you think there is a market for this? vehicle rentals, supply chain... My main worry is that it's not real time tracking (it updates when there are iphone, usually every 5 to 15 minutes).
I was thinking to sell it $19 + $1.5 per month per tracker.
btw if people want to try, happy to send you a free tracker with free lifetime subscription