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Author: Ravi Kurani

How Ecosystems will Transform the Pool & Spa Industry

Posted on November 12, 2020February 2, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

If you missed last week’s webinar, no worries, we’ve posted the video recording to YouTube (see below). In it we discuss the transforming pool and spa industry, and the importance of adapting to quickly emerging trends and creating our own ecosystem. Free Webinar Video Condensed Webinar Agenda Covid-19 and its effect on eCommerce Day 1…

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Why is Sutro Better?

Posted on July 3, 2020November 14, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

We get this question all the time and it’s time we answered it! Fives Years And Two Continents Development Sutro started 5 years ago. Ravi Kurani, our founder and CEO, had an idea — how to “fix” water. Ravi worked at his dad Harry’s pool store when he was a kid. He was also a…

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How to Increment Minor Versions on Google Play Store and Apple App Store

Posted on April 30, 2020February 1, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

The other day we released a new app version and posted it to our internal testers on our Facebook Beta Tester Group.  To our dismay, we launched version 1.3 and realized that as we told our users to download the app- it was not showing the latest version.  What happened? Apple is a tad bit…

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How to Get Accurate Time When It’s Relative

Posted on April 27, 2020February 2, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

To many, the Sutro time-stamp was moving around like a phantom. Sometimes it would be in the future, other times it would be in the past. Sometimes it would be within minutes of when you looked at it last. It was frustrating for both us and our beta testers since it made a lot of…

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A Note of Support & Solidary to Our Community

Posted on March 19, 2020February 1, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

The most important thing for us is the health and safety of our customers, employees, community, and partners during these challenging times. We’re following the developments of COVID-19 and are doing all we can to keep help out where we can. How COVID-19 Affects Sutro  Our manufacturing team in China was out of the office…

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Quality Control on the Sutro Supply Chain

Posted on February 10, 2020February 1, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

Obviously, we know that quality is a huge concern to the production of any product, but perhaps most importantly for a hardware product. The combination of plastic, metals, electronics, motors, and the sweat of a lot of people tightening, welding, and screwing things together result in a lot of things that could potentially go wrong. …

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How Simple, Safe, and Seamless Drove Our Design Process

Posted on July 2, 2019February 1, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

I came up with the idea for Sutro based on my experience working in my dad’s pool business. It was obvious to me, since I worked at it daily, that testing pool and spa water was a major pain. We would have countless customers come into our shop asking us to test their water. It…

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Insights into Crowdsourced Pool and Spa Measurements and Chemicals

Posted on June 10, 2019February 1, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

Pictured above: Charlie enjoying a day in her pool with pool masters (and beta testers) Randy and Tabitha Savage We realized early that it would be important to us to gather as much data about how people test and maintain their pool or spa water. Since we’re in Silicon Valley and data geeks at heart,…

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How Retail 3.0 will Transform the Pool & Spa Business

Posted on March 12, 2019November 14, 2022 by Ravi Kurani

Retail trends are being transformed by a customer-focused mixture of online, on-demand, and on-premise that many traditional retailers have yet to embrace and the pool and spa business is no different. The only way to survive, and indeed thrive in the new world of Retail 3.0 is to embrace the store as a destination, a…

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How to’s – Pool maintenance guides

Pool Volume Calculator

Sutro vs. WaterGuru 

Sutro vs. Keto

How to shock your pool

How to vacuum a pool, like a pro

How to add Algaecide to your pool

How many chlorine tablets to add to your pool?

How to get rid of Algae in my pool?

How to clear Cloudy Pool Water

How to Open an Inground Pool for the Summer

How to Raise or Lower pH and Alkalinity

How to fix water imbalance

How to lower/raise Alkalinity in Pools

Pool Chemicals – Learn how to use pool chemicals

Pool Brands for your Pool

Chlorine Pool Tablets

Algaecide for Swimming Pools

Pool Stabilizer – What is it and how to use it

Alkalinity Up – A way to increase alkalinity

Pool Chemicals – All you need to know

What is Flocculant and how to use it in the pool

Metal Sequestrant – What is it?

pH Up to raise the pH of your pool

Pool Brands

Bioguard Silkguard Complete

Bioguard Silkguard Complete Sticks

Clorox Disinfecting Bleach

Clorox Germicidal Bleach

Clorox Ph Down

Clorox Shock Xtra Blue

Hth Super Shock

Hth Shock Treatment

Klean Strip Muriatic Acid

Leisure Time Renew

Leslie’s Power Powder Plus

Morton Pool Salt

Pool Essentials Chlorinating Liquid

Pool Essentials Shock

Poolife Turbo Shock

Spaguard Enhanced Shock

Spaguard Chlorinating Concentrate

Trevi Non Chlorine Shock

Trevi Blue Clarifier

Trevi Stab Plus

Trevi pH Minus

Trevi Alca Plus

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