About
A belt, because nobody needs another screen on their wrist
Vyldor is an early-stage hardware project in Europe. Right now it is a finished design, a working 3D model and a plan we are willing to publish before we know whether it survives.
The idea started with an annoyance rather than a market study. Walking through an unfamiliar city, you take your phone out so many times to check one turn that you stop looking at the place you came to see. That was the whole starting point.
A watch does not fix that. It moves the same glance from your pocket to your wrist and adds another thing to charge. We wanted something that tells you, rather than something else to look at.
A belt turned out to be a surprisingly good place to put that. It has length, so a battery can be thin instead of thick. It touches you on both sides, so left and right actually mean something. And most people already put one on in the morning without treating it as a gadget.
None of which proves it works. A tap at the hip might turn out to be unreliable through a coat. The belt might be a millimetre too thick to be comfortable. Those are the questions we are spending the next few months on, and they are cheap ones to answer, which is why we are answering them before we ask anyone for money.
Founder
Built by Vojta Holeš
Vojta is 16, lives in the Czech Republic and has programmed every day for more than two years. Vyldor is a solo project: the product concept, this website, the parametric renders, the published engineering notes and every piece of outreach are his work.
He can build the companion app and the software around the product himself. He has not built hardware before, and the site does not pretend otherwise. The next stage needs people who have shipped small electronics: mechanical and electrical engineering, acoustics, haptics, certification and manufacturing.
The useful evidence today is not a résumé. It is the work already in public, including the mistakes: dimensions that did not fit, a belt that initially could not be adjusted and structured data that contradicted the website. Each one is documented and corrected rather than hidden.
How we talk about it
Rules we set for ourselves
Hardware projects get into trouble by describing renders as products. These are the lines we agreed not to cross, written down so you can hold us to them.
Every render is labelled
Not one image on this site is a photograph. They are all renders of the design model, and it says so under them.
No feature described as finished
Nothing here has run on hardware. The status page lists what exists, and it is short.
No date we cannot keep
We will not publish a ship date until something has been worn for a full day without failing.
Get in touch
Talk to a person
Email reaches the people building this, not a support queue. If you make leather goods, machine small metal parts, write embedded firmware or have done haptics properly before, that is the most useful email we can get.
Join the waitlist
You will hear from us when the haptic test is done. That is the next real milestone.
Thinking about backing it instead? Read the investor page