Myndr empowers you to control segmented internet availability even when away from a device. A simple flick of the Myndr-switch limits or broadens access to internet in accordance with your actual digital needs.
Somewhere in the autumn of 2016 my sweet Josephine challenged me to help people find balance in their relationship with internet. "You're a nerd 😍 and you're always working on inventing new stuff, why don't you try to fix this?"
So I thought up a generic way to "let the internet know" which parts I'd like to use right now and which parts I don't need.
Great! Now all I needed to do was to get every online service to follow suit.
Not everybody held up their end of this one-sided deal 😲so I started to work on methods to force my choices on the network in our home.
(Compare it to parental control if you want but the switch in our home is wall-fixed at 1,2m. So it's also childental(?) control. And needed when I'm stuck to Twitter while one of my sons needs my attention...)
I applied for patent, raised seed capital, founded a team and at the start of 2020 we launched Myndr for (K-12) School. Directly followed by Corona-lockdowns of K-12 schools... But sales started to rise and now we're starting to look across the border to Germany and Belgium.
Our focus is on education: We think teachers should be in control of what material gets in the hands of pupils during class. Also in the digital realm!
Classrooms should be safe places where our children are challenged to learn and are stimulated to concentrate on the development of their abilities.
There's a quote of William James from The Principles of Psychology which is as actual today as it was when he wrote it:
"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence."
I'd love to hear what you think. Especially if you think an open standard in this matter would be useful (or not) and why?
Quietfield