EdgeWise Connect

EdgeWise Connect App 🦉One-click connection protection.

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EdgeWise intelligently manages your Internet connections to keep you online - even at the edge of Wi-Fi. The solution to sticky Wi-Fi and dead hotspots.

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Jake Mor

Home Workouts by FitnessAI

This seems really cool! I'm a bit confused as a developer though — what APIs are you calling in the background to get the job done? Do apps have the ability to toggle wifi in the background?

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6yr ago

Alex Gizis

Speedify

Maker

@jakemor It's a "bonding VPN". We use the VPN API to act as middleman on your traffic, and then we make VPN tunnels on both your Wi-Fi and cell. This lets us pick, packet by packet which connection to use for your traffic. If Wi-Fi is good we use that, if the Wi-Fi is not good ( < 3 Mbps or so ) then we'll use both Wi-Fi and cellular to smooth over the problems.

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6yr ago

Sam Ayres

@jakemor @alexgizis This is a cool implementation to resolve the issue, but I *swear* this was/is built in to iOS?

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6yr ago

Alex Gizis

Speedify

Maker

@jakemor @sam_ayres They had a "Wi-Fi Assist" feature. But it didn't work: if it saw a wifi not working well, it would stop using it for a long time without telling you. So if you took your trash out, while you were outside it would decide that your home wifi was terrible and stop using it. then you'd go back in the house and you'd be stuck on cellular for hours. We'll keep testing the non-working wifi so that we see the moment it starts working again to use. And it didn't do anything to move your connections between wifi and cell without say hanging up on voice calls and interrupting downloads.

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6yr ago

Sam Ayres

@jakemor @alexgizis Yeah I remember turning it off because it was pretty terrible, nice work I'll definitely give your implementation a try!

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6yr ago

Alex Gizis

Speedify

Maker

EdgeWise connect is based off the same connection bonding technology that we used to make Speedify ( https://www.producthunt.com/post... ). But as Speedify has evolved, we've kept adding features that people wanted until it's become targeted at power users. EdgeWise is a clean start, you don't have to worry about any settings, the whole user interface is one On/Off switch. I think there might be a lesson here somewhere for other product designers...

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6yr ago

Adam Marx

How Many People Have Voted?

@alexgizis This seems like a great idea! There’s always a pain point between going from WiFi to data and it especially becomes onerous if I’m in the middle of work or a video call. This could be a great solution to try, nice build! Plus, I love that a certain percentage goes to a good nature cause. 👍🦅

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6yr ago

Alon Keren

this looks amazing! I have a dead spot in my apartment and going to try this tonight! btw, what's the connection to owls? 🦉 @alexgizis

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6yr ago

Alon Keren

@alexgizis I can see there's a VPN icon on my screen after installing the app, why is that?

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6yr ago

Alex Gizis

Speedify

Maker

@alon_keren The way it works, it's actually a bonding VPN. It uses the VPN API to act as middle man for your traffic, and then it has connections on both the cellular and wifi, so it can pick whether to use wifi or cellular from moment to moment.

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6yr ago

Alex Gizis

Speedify

Maker

@alon_keren One of the engineers is a passionate bird watcher, and generally quiet guy. When talking about mission and who we want to be, he launched into a passionate pitch for Project SNOWstorm, and the fate of the snowy owls. It was surprising and beautiful, and when he was done it was clear we'd found our cause. SNOWstorm is a great organization and we're happy to be donating to them to support their work.

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6yr ago