Post by Daniel McBride

Phare just won a Red Dot Award. 🎉 A few years ago, this was just a sketch on a notepad and a shared frustration with smoke alarms that couldn't tell the difference between a fire and a piece of toast. Today, it's an award-winning product that people can actually buy and put in their homes. That's a wild sentence to write. This one belongs to the team, both past and present, and the people who believed in what we were building before there was much to believe in. Credited on the award are Arnau Donate Duch, Minwook Paeng, Ian McBride, Will Panton, Memoy Mishra, Jinhak Lee, and Xinyi L., but that only scratches the surface. Building a hardware product is a long road. A regulated hardware product even more so. But the journey of creating something that makes a real difference in the lives of people who use it is worth it. Moments like this one are just icing on the cake. --------- 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘺.