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Well to answer that question I need to go back in time and tell you how we came with the idea of Sk8trakr.\n+\n+{% img center /images/writting_post.jpg 365 274 'Writting this post from the couch' %}\n+\n+Back in 2010 while I was in college I used to gather every friday in [Nicolás Magni](http://twitter.com/nicomagni)’s house. Nicolás is a friend I met when I was a freshman. At that time we were both studying software engineer at [I.T.B.A](http://www.itba.edu.ar). (Buenos Aires Institute of Technology). So every friday afternoon was almost the same, grabbing our skateboards and trying to learn how to [Ollie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_%28skateboarding%29) or [Pop Shove It](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shove-it). Well to be honest I was the one trying to learn, Nicolás was teaching me. When we got tired we went inside, grabbed some beers, played some [Tony Hawk Pro Skater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk's_%28series%29) on the PS3 and waited for the rest of the guys to show up so we could order some food. Pizza most of the time. Some times we prepared the most delicious meal of the world, [Argentine asado](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asado). This scenario repeated friday after friday for almost a year.\n+\n+On one of thoese friday nights Sk8trakr was born. I thought \"wouldn’t be nice to some how replicate the experience from the video games in real life. To be able to earn points every time you perform a trick\". So we started brainstorming a lot of ideas on how the app will look like. But there was a problem we were software engineers we did not know how to make a bluetooth device that needed to be some how attached to the board, we needed an electronic engineer.\n+\n+Because I always gather in Nicolas’ house he sometimes invited some of his friends from high school. So one friday night I met [Nicolás Tzovanis](http://www.twitter.com/ntzova), a.k.a. Tzova, who happened to be studying electronic engineer at our university. Tzova is an snowboarder, so he really liked the idea of having a device on his board that is able to give him information about his tricks. Apart from that, he loves making electronic devices. So Tzova and I started talking if we could make such a device. Also we were both trying to learn the basic skate tricks. So making an app which could help us learn faster was one our premises. The problem was that at that time we did not have the experience nor the time to develop such a product. 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Tzova, one of his friends from high school. Tzova, who happened to be studying Electrical Engineer at the same university, is also a snowboarder, so he really liked the idea of attaching a device to his board that will give him information about his tricks. As he loves making electronic devices, we started talking to make such a device, and since we were also trying to learn the basic tricks on the skateboard, making an app that could help us learn faster was one of our premises. Unfortunately, at that time, we didn't have the experience nor the time to develop such a product because we were dedicated to finish our studies, so we put Sk8trakr on hold.","created_at":"2014-01-31T14:21:33Z","updated_at":"2014-01-31T14:21:33Z","html_url":"https://github.com/sk8trakr/blog/pull/1#discussion_r9343142","pull_request_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sk8trakr/blog/pulls/1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/sk8trakr/blog/pulls/comments/9343142"},"html":{"href":"https://github.com/sk8trakr/blog/pull/1#discussion_r9343142"},"pull_request":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/sk8trakr/blog/pulls/1"}}}}