Wed May 8 '19 Announcement
almost 6 years ago
– Wed, May 08, 2019 at 01:25:16 PM
Hey backers!
The last 6 weeks have been full of surprises and progress for us. With the hardware team back in Montreal this month, we’re excited to share our latest prototype batch with you – with pictures, explanations, and videos this time.
You can check out our update on our blog. Enjoy!

We’ve received our latest batch of headphones in Montreal, and they’re looking great. We’ve posted several pictures and videos of the product in action below.
We found several minor issues with this batch, which we’ve since fixed. With this successful batch, our next iteration will be a mass production batch. If this batch is successful, we’ll start shipping each subsequent batch, with a ~6 week lead time each – we’re very excited about this.
Our audio and ANC tests came back with very positive results. Due to a supplier issue, we had to change (read: upgrade) ANC chip providers – with the new system, our preliminary ANC tuning shows a 30dB attenuation, which is on-par with other high-end ANC headphones available today.
Finally, we made some tweaks to the industrial design. Next update we’ll be sharing our new app design as well. We’re in the home stretch!

That’s all folks! You can find our update on our blog.
Next month we’ll be mid-batch, so we’ll take the opportunity to share pictures of our new app UI, and describe some of the functionality that will be available at launch. Thanks again to those that helped out with the UX interviews and surveys - we’re excited to share what came of it!
If there’s anything you didn’t see in this update that you’d like more info about, please share it in the comments!
Lots of love,
- The Mindset Team
Sun Mar 24 '19 Announcement
almost 6 years ago
– Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 04:07:33 PM
Hey Backers!
February bled into march as we pushed this update a few extra days in order to show you pictures of our latest prototype batch. This batch looks incredible so far - we’re really excited to show you all the pictures we took while assembling them.
You can find our latest update on our blog.
Enjoy!

The latest prototype batch’s assembly went well – you can read about the specifics, and see tons of great pictures below. We’re not quite done the assembly, so we’ll continue to update this post next week with more pictures of the final units.
So far, the parts look great and assemble well. We had a few issues with the upper band being too stiff (which we temporarily fixed), and with our electronics software (which we hacked together a solution for). Neither of these will affect our mass production units. We’re waiting to receive a few more parts (namely the electrode band) to assemble the final units.
We’ll post more pictures, and videos of the product in-use once the assembly is done and shipped to the Montreal office! In the meantime, we’ll continue working towards our next batch, which should arrive late April/early May. This will be our last pre-shipping batch.

We need your help designing our app!
In parallel to the hardware developments below, we’re taking this month to undergo a UX design process: consolidating what we’ve learned building and testing the app, to create the final ship-ready user interface for the software.
In order to make sure the product fits your needs, we met with several backers last week to dive into questions about work habits, focus environments, and general expectations for the product.
We also put together a survey that we’d like all of you to fill out. Please take the time to fill out our short (~3min) survey, to help us design the product to fit your needs: https://goo.gl/forms/yLB8mvzOJYZ5tyIr1
Thank you so much for your help!

You can access the latest update here. We’ll continue updating this post with pictures as we finish the assembly.
Upon request, we’ll also share videos of the headphones in-use once we finish this batch. We’re excited to show you the fruits of our labor, so stay tuned for that!
Lastly, please take the time to fill out our UX survey to help us optimize our app for your work habits: https://goo.gl/forms/yLB8mvzOJYZ5tyIr1. We really appreciate your effort!
Lots of love,
- The Mindset Team
Wed Feb 13 '19 Announcement
about 6 years ago
– Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:18:53 AM
Hey Backers,
Happy 2019! We’ve been off to a great start, working towards getting our tooling ready and our DV batch manufactured.
Since we’re mid-milestone (prepping for DV batch), January was a heads-down-working kind of month. This update will be much shorter than usual, as last month was spent preparing for manufacturing our next batch of engineering units. In this update, we’ll share a few decisions we have made recently to accelerate the schedule and ship as soon as possible, as well providing a deeper timeline about the steps to getting there.
You can check out the blog post here. Enjoy!

January was an in-between month for us, where we focused on prepping the supplies and requirements for our next prototypes. On the hardware side, we managed to send in the purchase order for our prototypes before Chinese New Year, which keeps us on schedule to receive the prototypes in early march, and the DV batch end of march. These prototypes will enable us to validate full-functionality, to tune the ANC in Taiwan, and to test the software UX.
On software, we’re bringing on more help on neuro-adaptive music composition and user experience design. Together, this new expertise will enable us to take a new look at the software app and ensure that the experience is designed from the ground up to add tangible value, while integrating seamlessly into your life. We’ll share app images as we work through the next months of design and testing.
We detailed our timeline more thoroughly below. We’re still on schedule to produce our DV batch in March, with PV and shipping shortly after.
February 4th was Mindset’s 3rd birthday! We’re incredibly humbled, and excited by all the next steps on the horizon. Thank you again for all of your support, and for making Mindset possible!

You can check out our monthly update on our blog. As always, please post any comments or questions , and we’ll be happy to continue the conversation!
As a reminder, if you’re interested in being part of our user research calls, please send an email to help@thinkmindset.com. Thanks in advance for your support in making Mindset as great as it can be!
Lots of love,
- The Mindset Team
Mon Dec 31 '18 Announcement
about 6 years ago
– Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 01:55:35 PM
Hey Backers!
As the year draws to a close, we wanted to post one last update, speaking to some of the progress we’ve made in 2018. It’s been an eventful, and at times arduous year – we’ve made incredible strides on the product despite many unfortunate delays. Before we move into 2019, we want to reflect on the good and bad of this year, to learn from our mistakes and hit the ground running in 2019.
Happy holidays to everyone, and enjoy our year-end summary!

We’ve finished up a lot of the major changes on our way to tooling, and kicked off the process. In parallel to the tooling being cut, we’ll be going over several smaller details, to prep for making our DV batch in march. We’ve finalized the shape of the headphones, which you can see below.
The app is coming along well – we’re all using it internally. We will be sharing public beta versions in the early new year to test without the headphones.
Below we’ve gone into a lot of detail with our year-end review. Enjoy!

Looking back, 2018 has been an incredible year – we’re really excited to see what 2019 will bring, with our product launch and beyond.
We want to thank you all for your continued support on this journey. We’ve had our share of ups and downs, and as we near the final stretch we’ve more and more eager to share Mindset with you all. We’re incredibly grateful for your feedback, and your kind words throughout.
We wish everyone a happy holiday season, and an incredible new year!
Lots of love,
- The Mindset Team
Fri Nov 16 '18 Announcement
over 6 years ago
– Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:42:50 PM
Hey Backers!
This update covers the progress we made over the last two months. In addition to the hardware, we’ll be sharing some updates on the software we’ve been working on, including a few really interesting applications that we haven’t yet shared publicly.
You can check out the update on our blog. Enjoy!

We’ve fixed the cabling, Bluetooth, and PCB layout, ANC, and button problems we mentioned in our last update. We’ve also commissioned our first tooling, a huge milestone! We’re considering making the armbands out of plastic – please read below and voice your opinion in the comments.
Our timeline is to finish tooling by early January, finish DV by February/march, and start ship soon after.
Below we describe the software interface, and announce our neuro-adaptive music system: a dramatic innovation in focus music. We also have several questions we’d like feedback on, so please comment with your responses!

We'd like your feedback on a few questions, to help us develop our app! Please read the update for more details, and comment your thoughts on our blog.
1. What music tracks help you focus, so we can use them as a reference?
2. What metrics would you want to track on a session-to-session, day-to-day, and week-to-week basis, to motivate you to do more deep work?
3. What tool integrations (to do list, calendar, notes, email) would help motivate you to do more deep work?

That’s all folks! Check out our update on our blog, and please comment your answers to our questions!
As always, lots of love,
- The Mindset Team