Mat Lock
Hey, Julien and Ross, welcome to the podcast. It’s a pleasure to have you here. Hey, man, it’s man. It’s me. So you are two of the three co founders from an amazingly innovative and new company called time birds. But before we dive into all things time, but maybe we can hear a little bit more about yourself. For those who are not familiar, Julian, maybe let’s start with where in the world you’re sitting and tell us a bit about yourself.
Julien Claudin
Yeah, so. So I live in Melbourne now. I’m French. And you’ll probably see that as I’m talking. Yes, I’ve been working in the corporate world for quite a few years traveling a lot. And yeah, I ended up being transferred in Australia to start a small subsidiary here, about four and a half years ago. So yeah, and my background is in product design and mechanical engineering. So most of the, let’s say, design of time arises is mine. And, yeah, that’s pretty much who I am.
Mat Lock
So my earlier reference to propellerheads before we went live, but didn’t refer to you, by the way. Oh, yeah. Sorry. We can do that again. Yeah, very good. And you’re sitting in Melbourne, is that right?
Julien Claudin
Yes, yes, I’ve been in Melbourne for for four and a half years now.
Mat Lock
At the time of recording this, of course, Melbourne is in a state of lockdown due to COVID. So how are things going where you are
Julien Claudin
pretty tough. We’ve been in a full lockdown for about four weeks now. And really can’t wait to get to get out being able to go back to the countryside and even going back to the gym. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a box. Yeah. Looking forward to the Edit.
Mat Lock
Certainly fairly paying. We’re, um, we’re just yeah, walking the tightrope here in New South Wales at the moment, we’re still continuing to stay on the bright side of it all. But yeah, I mean, as Melbourne was evident, it really the only one click of the fingers away, right? Any of us that clap glad you’re holding up and rush you’re also in Melbourne. Is that right?
Ross Hastings
Yeah, just a few kilometers down the road from Julian. In lockdown in Melbourne. We’ve been doing everything around time, but it’s remotely for a few weeks now, which has been interesting. Haven’t seen each other for a while. But yeah, my as you can tell from my accent, I am also not originally from Melbourne. I’m from Scotland originally and spent a long time in Scotland, England, Canada, and been in Australia for a few years now. And my backgrounds, not so much around product, my backgrounds, kind of in the experience base. I have a background in positive psychology and coaching psychology. So those come from a real interest in I guess a couple of things around experience first and foremost, but also been in and around the sports and fitness industry for a long time when it comes to coaching psychology, so very interested in the psychology behind time. And the pie plays in our industry and in the fitness community, but also just fascinated knows have been around what brings us together as a community and obviously we’re all really part of a quite astoundingly tight community. So really, always had a fascination about how that that yeah, that plays a part in the human psychology and the and the whole psyche of what it is we do in the fitness industry.
Mat Lock
Yeah, absolutely. And look, I mean, in this in the spirit of the whole COVID situation. It’s been interesting. Every client does have a silver lining for me. I’ve seen Nothing but a community, as you said, awesome community pull together even more. And certainly for you guys in a moment who are not able to go to a gym or box or studio and train, I think it. Yeah, it really brings it to the surface, how much how integral that is to well being mental health, just that sense of community, that sense of belonging? How important is the camaraderie that comes with it? So, we wouldn’t wish COVID to be here. But there’s there are some silver linings I think,
Ross Hastings
yeah, it’s, it’s incredible, really. And I think you’re right, you would have thought that those walls that were your go to that sacred space that a lot of us go to that our community is lives within may have been hampered by this time. But I think like you said, if anything, it’s brought everyone closer together in a really challenging moment in most people’s lives, they’ve rallied together and found ways to stay in contact. And we find it really interesting. You know, a lot of my background academically is around team coaching and teams in general. And, you know, one of the commonly accepted elements of team is that they have a common goal or a common purpose and a common folk focus in in our functional fitness community of fitness community in general, we obviously have a number of shared goals. But what we found and really reflected upon and found fascinating is that time is one of those shared goals that wallmounted gym timer is such a focal point of that gym community. And I think one of the reasons we’ve seen such amazing engagement so far with time birds, and something we’ve been very lucky about is that people are really missing that connection to time whilst they’re having to train from home and being separated from the gym community.
Mat Lock
Yeah, absolutely has a parallel here that resonates. Why didn’t I get that? So there’s actually three view I believe, we have?
Ross Hastings
Yes
Mat Lock
Of course, the third couldn’t be with us. But I think he’s, he’s the Australian amongst you. Correct.
Ross Hastings
He is the one Australian and Ira Australian founded businesses. Yeah. Yeah, we had to have it with the AB Yeah. Kieran, Kieran, is Kieran‘s very much responsible for everything you see around the look and feel of the time birds brand. His background, also globally, is in advertising, marketing, brand. development has launched a number of brands globally. So he’s, we’ve been so lucky and so honored to work with him and have him as our co founder. And yeah, like I said, He’s responsible for that the amazing brand that goes with, with time birds. And one thing you know, we talked about all of our professional backgrounds. But one thing that we’ve always found really interesting when working together on time birds is that we we all have a sporting backgrounds to a decent level, but in very in vastly different things. So Kieran was a college level basketball player and went up to the US to do that from Australia when he was younger. I played reasonable level of rugby back home, and then spent a long time in the skiing industry. And Julien, from suddenly recent history is a really strong runner. So we’ve always been really fascinated how CrossFit, and functional fitness in general brought us together into what brought us to meet each other, my family’s really diverse sporting backgrounds. I think, again, keep coming back to this, and we probably will keep coming back to this. But again, it just speaks to that community. And it’s the diversity of people that brings together different parts of the globe, different professional backgrounds, different sporting backgrounds, all ending up coming across each other and building this business over a shared love of something.
Mat Lock
Yeah. Fantastic. And I’m keen now to dive in. We’ve used the word time that a few times and of course, we know what time birds is, but just for the listener who is not yet familiar with time, birds. What is it you guys are doing? What are you? What are you bringing to the world? God, do
Ross Hastings
Julien you want to take that? Or do you want me to..
Julien Claudin
I’ll have a go. And so basically timecode is a it’s a pocket sized version of a wall mounted gym timer. And how did we come up with the ID? Well, basically, I’ve been traveling a lot for work. When I say a lot, it’s maybe like 60 to 80 flights every year for the past decade. So it’s a lot of trainings in hotel gyms or, in fact, before I travel now, I always look at the closest gym to whatever hotel I potentially want to. And yeah, this is how I make my decisions of where I want to stay in the cities. So yeah, so it was not always ideal to train And I always missed my wall mounted gym timer for whenever I was doing a, you know, open gym session or, or some some of my own training and their hotel gyms. So I thought maybe I could do something around that. And yeah, so that was one and then my brother in law. One day, we were talking and I looked at his phone and he was all broken. And I said, What happened? And he said, Oh, I actually I took it at the gym the other day, and I dropped the plate onto and broke my screen. And I was like, Hmm, this is definitely something to be done around having a purpose-built fitness timer for people who want to take, you know, all the functions of the wall-mounted gym timer with them wherever they go. So yeah, that’s how the idea was born. We then made a few prototypes that we’ve been using in our box. And yeah, the feedback has been incredible. And yeah, we we thought, hey, let’s just explore that little idea further in time. Timebirds was born here in
Mat Lock
a very exciting product. And we’ll get on to how exciting in just a moment to add of interest do you have? I know also in a podcast, you will be able to say to your listeners, but if you’re watching us on YouTube, do you have any there are a few that you can go well, this is what you must have one. There we go. Sure, I really would fit in pocket, right?
Julien Claudin
Yeah, pocket size. It’s got its, you know, strong enough to raise this to all the gym environment and you can throw it in your gym bag, it would still be fine. It’s water resistant. So a lot of sweat water splash rain, you can use it indoor outdoor. Yeah, it’s Yeah.
Mat Lock
I was in training. Call the other day with a guy who runs a lot of online training. And I, in one of the breaks I sent him The link is he’s also into the functional training. I said, oh, by the way, Glen, check this out. heckles this. And he had looking at Oh, I said, I need one of those on my desk. He said for when I’m doing these came down, keep an eye on things like, there you go. There’s another application.
Julien Claudin
I mean, every time we’ve been talking about Tandberg to the different communities, we’ve always had very amazing feedback. One guy came to me and said, Oh, I’m a chef. And I love to do this in my kitchen. Because like the current kitchen timers, they’re not backlit, so you can’t see them very well. That’s exactly what I need. I’ll put one in my kitchen. And yeah, many people said, I’ll just use this clock. It looks really nice, very bright. So yeah,
Ross Hastings
it’s amazing how many different people that we had never considered the first point, have found a utility and an interesting use for time. But it’s time it’s it’s incredible. And it keeps us really excited. And we love hearing people’s stories. So please keep them coming. And it’s there was the there’s the Pomodoro timer, which productivity timer methodology that people have been saying that they’ll use it for and you know, quite a few people have said that they want to use it as an alarm clock and wake up to the beep, beep beep. So..
Mat Lock
No, no, no, that’s not my drivers, we want go. Fantastic. So I guess I’m so you had the idea. So I guess you just get get a couple mock ups made? And yeah, just start selling them. That’s how it worked. Right?
Julien Claudin
Yeah, a lot of testing will probably, I mean, believe it or not, but the idea was born two years ago. It’s not related to the COVID situation at all. It was purely related to our own problems. So we were trying to solve. And yeah, we’ve, we’ve done many, many iterations to make sure that yeah, it was purpose built. And not just for the, you know, top athletes, but for the everyday athletes and to be used in, you know, at home, at the gym, inside outside. And we’re also developed quite a few molds to cover most of the training activities that templates can be used in.
Mat Lock
Yeah, sure. Certainly no way brand specific. It’s a it’s a time of its really for initially, you know, in the first sense for anyone who’s into any sort of functional training, and then yes, or acknowledging there are a myriad of other applications that people are finding for it, which is awesome. Of course, but So, I mean, in 30 seconds, or ish. How does it how do you go about bringing something like this to market to get to the point of actually pre orders to get up to that point, which we’ll come to which is a subject in itself. But the thinking that goes into it, the process? As you said, there’s a few, a few variations, a few, a lot of testing, just sort of give a bit of an understanding around that because I think that’s an important thing for people to hear.
Julien Claudin
Yeah, I think people don’t realize how hard it is to make a product. You know, designing a prototype is the easy bit. Going to production is the heartbeat. It’s very, very hard to, to manufacture products. It takes a lot of time, effort and a tremendous amount of money. Originally, when we first started this project, we thought we don’t need to go through a crowdfunding platform, you could, you know, bootstrap it. And the more the further we were going through the process, the more money was being put into this. And at some point, we said, there’s no way we can keep going at that pace. So without on on funding, so yeah, we decided to, to go through a crowdfunding platform. So yeah, it takes a lot of effort, time and money. That’s, yeah, absolutely.
Mat Lock
I think it’s the ultimate flattery is when someone picks your product and says, Yeah, isn’t that simple? Yeah, that’s when you know. Exactly.
Julien Claudin
Sometimes we get comments, ah, you know, why can’t Why can’t you ship it next week or next month? I wish we could. We’re working as fast as we can to organize production. And make sure that we ship a good quality product. Because this is definitely what you want. We don’t want to disappoint we’ve been, I think a lot of people are excited about timeouts and using it. But yeah, we want to make sure that we deliver upon our promises.
Mat Lock
You’d want to say to those people like guys, you do understand that only when we sell these, do we get money for this, like trust, motivated to deliver the Linux?
Julien Claudin
Absolutely.
Ross Hastings
I think it’s, it’s, you know, one of those things that it’s a bit of a tightrope, often with an idea of like this demand can absolutely destroy you if you’re not ready to deal with it. And something like a crowdfunding platform really allows us to gauge initial interest, and launch manufacturing, to make sure that we can ensure the quality that we’re so passionate about this has to be it’s we’ve always purpose built it, like we said, for the everyday athlete we have, it has to have that quality. And we have to make sure we can fulfill as we promised, we have to make sure that we get the shipping rate so that we can keep shipping rates as low as possible for everybody, and do all these things that are so important to us in terms of the experience. So crowdfunding campaign gives us, you know, literally the exact number so that we can launch manufacturing based on that. And then that gives us the systems and the structures and the quality assurance, all those things in place to then go into traditional ecommerce retail environment at that stage. But you know, it just gives us yeah, it makes sure that initial wave of orders doesn’t bury us basically, it gives us a little bit.
Mat Lock
I appreciate that. My my next question was going to be well, you know, why a Kickstarter campaign? But you’ve answered that question. And it’s not, it would be too easy for the lay person to assume you’re doing that just to get all the money up front. That’s nothing. That’s not it is more much more, as you’ve just described.
Ross Hastings
It’s actually it’s actually, in some ways is wouldn’t be the best option for that. without going into too much detail around that. You know, I think often it’s tempting not to go through that sort of platform for financial reasons. But I think for us, yeah, it was absolutely just about gauging initial interest, giving a platform where people, and we’re so grateful for this people engaging with us through crowdfunding and doing so knowing that they’re not receiving their time or the next day in the post, you know, knowing that we’re saying, quite openly, this, this is going to be later in the year that you receive this. And, you know, without that, sort of, without that sort of trust and engagement and buy in from our community, you know, the crowdfunding thing doesn’t work. So we’re, we’re immensely grateful for that, and the support from the community that’s allowing us to, to launch this with, you know, with the experience and the quality that we’ve always been really passionate about. Yeah.
Julien Claudin
If I can add on to what Roy has just said, the other thing about crowdfunding is the level of insights we are currently getting about our product, we’ve been testing it within our own community, mostly, you know, in Australia, secondary to crowdfunding is it’s a different level different worlds, we’re getting a lot of insights that we we could potentially implement onto the existing product, which is what we’ve been doing with what we call stretch goals, but also insights that we want to use for the next generations and make sure that whatever we do, always answers a problem and will be adopted by our users. So it’s extremely valuable from that. That aspect.
Mat Lock
Yeah, absolutely. And so how many days ago did you launch the Kickstarter campaign?
Ross Hastings
Last last Tuesday.
Mat Lock
Yeah, very good. So for those not familiar with Kickstarter, just a very quick overview of how it works. And let’s hear about your experience with it so far. And I’ve deliberately avoided referencing the number it’s gone up, by the way, it’s gone up by the time, you’re not going to bind other things in dollars. So
Ross Hastings
well, Kickstarter is the interesting one, the simple version is you, you launch a product, you have a set amount of time that the product is on the platform for, and you have to set a target. Now, your your campaign is only successful if you reach that target. Otherwise, everybody just gets their pledges and their money sent back to them. It doesn’t know what gets their product, and you don’t get the catch, obviously. So a big thing and kicks out, the first thing that’s important is hitting your target. And then obviously, your campaign continues for a set amount of time people are able to back your your product, be one of the first on the planet to get their hands on it. It’s your guarantee that they’re going to be the first in the first wave of orders. So that’s kind of the appeal around it. And I think that probably leads to your your next question, Matt, that you mentioned.
Mat Lock
Absolutely. So you launched. And there’s a whole range of options in there different offers, like bundles packages, and all sorts of good stuff. But you went live. And I couldn’t help. I noticed on your website that you were fully funded in three minutes of going live.
Ross Hastings
Yeah, switch was incredible. So Julien, Kieran and I were on a zoom call for lunch. We, you know, we had some rough targets about when we might want to hit our initial target, that really important target I mentioned. And we thought, Well, you know, when we wake up tomorrow, or in the first 24 hours, it would be awesome if we just had that out of the way. So we had that peace of mind. And we can look forward to the campaign. So very quickly, it happened in three minutes. Yeah, like you said, and we were all kind of blown away. We had a bit of relief and euphoria around that. And we went on to then the initial target, Julian, made sure I got the figures, right. It’s about 17,000.
Julien Claudin
Yeah. 18,000. us.
Ross Hastings
Yeah. So we then went on to hit 100,000 us in under an hour. And 150,000 us in an hour and a half. So you know, what, the big thing for us with that is you have something like this that you there’s been built with us every day athletes in mind tested with like Julien said, the Australian community. And the reason that that was just such a euphoric moment for us was that just to see the support and engagement from our community? Yeah, extrapolated out globally, from what we knew was the case here. Just you know, it’s mind blowing. I mean, obviously, the the money side of things is important in Kickstarter, it means you can launch your business it means that you can get your product in the hands of all these people that you want to see use it, but probably more so for us at the moment, it’s just continued to be blown away by by that community. And And not only is it the backing and the funding, it’s like Julien said, People just reaching out and saying things like, well, I’ve backed you can’t wait to get my hands on the product. Can’t wait to use time but this is how I’m going to use it people coming back and saying I’ve I backed the product I’ve when I say back to that’s you know, you’re you’re ordering the product is known as plate, you’re backing on Kickstarter. People coming out and saying I’ve backed back time birds, it would be great if you could add this or great if you could add that, but it’s always I backed it. And it’s never if you do this, I’ll buy it. It’s just that just the community response, honestly has been breathtaking. It’s been unbelievable. And it continues to do so which is great.
Mat Lock
Before we go further, I’m gonna have to say from from myself and the whole team here at bay games headquarters. A massive congratulations so far and what a huge success.
Ross Hastings
Thank you.
Julien Claudin
Thanks Mat.
Mat Lock
And I understand this is a this is really only the beginning for you guys, because at some point, which we’ll talk about your bankroll to go into production and several of those. So it says that, hey, and then Okay, head down. I’d say you know what’s amazing to me when we before we went live. Well, actually, I won’t steal the thunder. Yeah, okay. When when we went live, you were staggering and I’m talking in Australian dollars and I’m looking at it staggering $701,000 pledge so far, with 22 days. Still to go. Since we’ve been talking. It’s gone up by another 2000 it’s never said 3000 Which is just the as we’re sitting here talking to people lighting this place in order to the end of the room. Yeah, I mean, it’s absolutely phenomenal. I mean, really well done. Congratulations. It’s just set we’re so excited for Yeah, I’m excited.
Julien Claudin
This is actually, yeah, this is interesting, because we know we had a, we had plans for production and how many units we wanted the manufacturer with the first batch. And that number, that number keeps going, going up and up and up. So yeah, we’re currently organizing production, obviously, making sure that we build the tuning. And, and she very shortly after the campaign, given the success of the Kickstarter campaign, now, we we are moving everything ahead. ahead of schedule. I mean, so yeah, it’s hopefully we want to get enough units to ship to our backers. But also, like, all the people that will be ordering products for maybe Christmas, or slightly after, make sure we don’t have too much of a backlog. Once we go once once we go live after Kickstarter.
Mat Lock
Yeah, sure how many, you’re very generously. I mean, if you’ve come aboard with the bay games, and we appreciate your support, so the first 60 that come off the production line. Of course, the winners, the top debate games, unstoppable edition, the online version This year, thank you, COVID. But now when we appreciate your support very much, we’re excited to have you aboard. And I know that when we announced to our audience that that’s the top three, and each division would be getting, but we’re giving them the bird, you when we give you the bird is now there was a lot of really good feedback around that. So we appreciate it. appreciate your support there. And actually, I think, as I’m sitting here thinking, it would be great to give another another podcast with with you guys in the future to dig into when you’ve got more time and you’re in a different space, to dig into the production side of it to really understand how that looks. Because there’s a lot of our audience would be really interested by that. Just to understand the mechanics of that. But um, but for now, I guess we focus on the Kickstarter campaign, this podcast is going live at a time when the campaign is still open. And for sure, we’ll we’ll be letting our audience know, as the campaign comes to a close, as well, but um, you mentioned already that you also heavily focused on production and getting units, active people, ideally before the end of the year is what you’re aiming for. I guess it depends on final numbers as well as to what your first order looks like with your supplier.
Julien Claudin
Yes, yes, that’s this is the challenge, because everybody wants to have product made for the Christmas holidays. So production lines are very, very busy. During that time. We’ve got many manufacturing partners in Australia, Hong Kong, China and in the US. So we’ve selected a few to make sure that we had different options and being able to control query again, it’s very important to us. And yeah, it’s, that’s the difficult part is to, yeah, align everything. So you can ship products, let’s say at the right time.
And, and the other thing that we need to take care of is, you know, production instructions. Like these sort of things that nobody realizes, usually testing the products or the regular regulatory testing, so we can ship safe products around the world to those things that it takes time. So it’s not just building the unit mechanically. It’s also all the peripherals, things going with it. You know, packaging is another one. That takes time. So yeah, it’s pretty, pretty busy.
Mat Lock
Do you wish you had someone on the team that knew something about packaging?
Julien Claudin
Yeah. That’s, it’s been my everyday life for the past few years, so yeah, it’s so good.
Mat Lock
So many of my former former life in the corporate world sent me I work for a company from Germany, who made safety and medical devices, often electronic devices at the salt throughout the world. So I can absolutely appreciate the complexities of this type of product going into multiple countries.
Julien Claudin
If you associate all of this to the current COVID situation, shipping products is a nightmare. At the moment, there are very, very few flights coming into Australia. So we can, you know, see what the quality is if everything is as per the specifications, and that being able to go and visit suppliers has been a little bit difficult as well. So we we do exchange a lot of emails, phone calls, conference calls. And yeah, we’ve been shipping product back and forth. But it’s just Again, it takes more time, if we were able to go to the factory and identify where the issues are and quickly correct them, it would be a lot more efficient than waiting for an email, waiting for a product, shipping everything back with the modifications, and so on and so on. So it has been a bit of a challenge and slowing us down a little bit. Not Not Not too much. But we could have been more efficient in a non compete situation for sure.
Ross Hastings
I think it’s another benefit of the amazing response we’ve had on Kickstarter, like Julian said, is that it gives that element of certainty and assuredness around that first audit also gives us a larger first order. So we’re more likely to get like Julian said, that spot on the production line. So I think, you know, it’s another major positive of the response we’ve had so far to be able to bring those timelines forward just a couple of weeks. So that we can really make sure that we are delivering on on the timelines, regardless of your COVID. And the difficulties that that brings.
Mat Lock
Absolutely, guys, I’m conscious of time to keep this as evergreen as possible to listen to it. Obviously, the Kickstarter campaign is important. But people go to your website, and the pre order button on your website at the moment obviously directs people to the Kickstarter campaign. So if we, what if you let us know how people can find you online? Whether web address that kind of thing? I guess that makes it as evergreen as we can. It’s time birds.com. Is that correct?
Ross Hastings
That’s right, yeah, that’s a website
Mat Lock
with an S on the end, that’s plural.com. Where I’m from time, but
Ross Hastings
we had a, we had a long discussion. I think one of these times naming a business is obviously a pretty interesting process. Ultimately, we landed on on time, but it’s for a number of reasons. One, ultimately, these are a pocket sized version of your wall mounted gym timer that you can stick anywhere. So literally, we had this idea of time, birds, perching everywhere, poaching, wherever you wanted them to be all around the deer more around in this environment, chirping at you making noises and indicating, you know, obviously when you got to start stuff, and all the rest of it. But also we just, you know, we love this idea that time is all about freedom. And birds are all about so birds are all about freedom and time gives us this ability to time birds gives us ability to have freedom around when we when we work out when we’re being timed, it breaks us free of the kind of the limitations of something that’s wall mounted, or like Julian said, a phone that might be fragile, or whatever, there’s an element of freedom in there as well. And we we love the concept that time doesn’t discriminate, doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from or what sport you’re doing. It’s time it’s time
Mat Lock
that you could tag on doesn’t discriminate. Right that day. I love that that’s the the story behind time. But I didn’t know that. And everything you just said is both very creative, but also makes a lot of sense. But if people want to reach out to you guys personally, how would they do that? How would they get in touch with you?
Ross Hastings
And probably best bet at the moment is by email for a personal connection. So it’s it’s simple. Rust s s at time buds calm or Julien with an E JULN. At the time, but it’s not yet a French question. Yes. But also, I would say that we’ve really enjoyed the way people have been engaging with us through social media as well. It’s been a source of a lot of the feedback and interaction we’ve had that we’ve been able to then think about incorporating into time birds. So for that you can get the contact or connect with us and please, you know, get in contact with us as well and speak to us through at time birds timers on Instagram, so it’s time birds again, but timers on the end this time.
Mat Lock
Very good. All of those links, of course will be in the show notes of this podcast. We should also give a shout out to some of the partners that have got involved with your Kickstarter campaign. Some of you will stretch goals for example, feel free to just name those people or organizations. Yeah,
Julien Claudin
I’ll leave Ross answers with this one because he’s the one who’s worked really, really hard to get those partners partners on board. So
Ross Hastings
yeah. Yeah. I struggled say it’s hard work. It’s been an absolute pleasure speaking with all of them, and then you know, they’ve all great to work with but we’ve we’ve partnered with relicense periodization. So RP strength one of the best nutrition coaches and nutrition resource centers around so they’ve they’ve, they’ve provided them a couple of their ebooks as well as a subscription to their IP diet app as part of the campaign which has been fantastic. Also brute strength. So anyone in and around the functional fitness industry will know that these guys are you know, one of the prominent coaching and again resource centers and programming experts around functional fitness. So they’ve they’ve contributed a discounted version of their ring muscle up program, which people could get back as can get as part of our campaign. The professor project and train your weakness, which are both headed up by Brent fikowski, in partnership with a number of other athletes and coaches like Bobby D here in Australia and Patrick Varner, Chandler Smith, Cole Sager, amongst others on on collaborate with him on those and they’ve donated on sorry, not dated, but they’ve contributed a discounted version of their train your weakness modules, and they’re the professor project side subscription to their premium premium subscription service there. And also, Andrew Papp, who has contributed the subscription to his everyday 365 program, but also very kindly contributed his 30 day bodyweight program ebook, which has just been released to all backers as our first stretch goal that got hit. And Andrew Papp is very prominent active member of the functional fitness community here in Australia. So we’re very proud to partner with him as well.
Mat Lock
Absolutely. No, it’s great to get again, we’ll I will put links to all of those people and businesses in the show notes, of course. And as you say, it’s great to see all of them getting aboard and supporting. Amazing, fantastic. Very good, guys. Anything else you’d like to say at this stage? I’m pretty sure we’re going to have you back on in the future like a document we can dig into some of the specific areas. We’ve been asked to get back on, of course, when the Kickstarter campaign closes, so we know what the final result is. So interim, so far, when we’re talking is 703,316, which is 5337 backers. So far, of course, I guess the most backers have bought multiple units, which is just amazing. So again, congratulations from my side. Appreciate your time. I know you’re busy. Obviously, it’s a massively busy month for you guys. So appreciate your time. And again, very much appreciate your support at the bay games. Well, thank you for having us, Matt.
Julien Claudin
Thank you very much, Matt.
Ross Hastings
It’s been a pleasure. And we just really like to say thank you so much. Again, it’s really, we always knew we were part of a really special community. But this is really solidified. And we’ve been completely blown away by, you know, everybody engaging with us and backing us. But also, like I said, just the communication. So thank you to everybody.
And we look forward to seeing everyone using their time.
Julien Claudin
And we’ll definitely be part of the bay games probably next year that you’ll see a team time but it’s competing next year.
Mat Lock
I think we need to have two teams so you can go head to head. Yeah. Alright guys, appreciate it. You take care.
Ross Hastings
Thanks Matt. Thanks a lot.
Julien Claudin
Thanks Matt. Bye
