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Great initiative. Solving OSA is a multi-$bn industry. And there's no silver bullet yet...

I've had 4 sleep studies in the past - professional ones where they wire up your entire body for monitoring. They all produced wildly varying results. So I'm quite skeptical of at-home sleep studies. Maybe you can employ some sort of ML to record snoring and make a determination as to OSA?

Suggestions for your site: you need a little bit more supporting text, especially with the products.

On a separate topic - one of the coolest things I've seen which I think really does "solve" snoring - and persistently is https://www.inspiresleep.com/ - but my feeling is people will avoid invasive surgeries to embed nerve-stimulating devices in their bodies. If we could design such a product without surgery - that would be a game changer.



OSA is solved. I had a home sleep study, sent it back off and had an APAP machine delivered all within 10 days. Mouthpieces and alternatives are halfway houses on the way to a solution, not solutions themselves.


There are millions of people undiagnosed, burdening healthcare systems and leading to preventable deaths or poor health outcomes.

OSA hardware is a chore to use, and many simply give up on using it.

I guess it depends on your definition of solved, but by most standards it is not close.




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