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…
Author: Ravi Kurani
Why is Sutro Better?
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…
How to Increment Minor Versions on Google Play Store and Apple App Store
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…
How to Get Accurate Time When It’s Relative
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…
A Note of Support & Solidary to Our Community
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…
Quality Control on the Sutro Supply Chain
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. …
How Simple, Safe, and Seamless Drove Our Design Process
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…
Insights into Crowdsourced Pool and Spa Measurements and Chemicals
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,…
How Retail 3.0 will Transform the Pool & Spa Business
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…