Deepinder Goyal

Also, just for the record.

In my entire history of building Zomato, Eternal, and now Temple – we have never asked anyone to post anything online, for money or otherwise.

I type all my posts myself. Everything you see is pure "building in public".

A lot of founder friends have asked me so many times to engage with some agency or the other to manage the narrative and infuse supporting posts. I always refuse.

Exception: we sometimes ask our internal teams to repost our posts if and when they want. Compliance is up to them, nobody is tracked and vilified for not doing it.

Yours to believe it or not. But that's the way I prefer building in public.

Again, Happy Diwali! 🪔

Hello everyone. Happy Diwali!

Thank you for your criticism, your support and your time over the last two days. Gives me much needed clarity on what we need to explain better:

1. ⁠Temple is not made for India. It’s made for the world. Please check pricing. We don’t expect any more than 1% of Temples being sold in India.

2.⁠ ⁠If you are upset that the pricing is too high, I am sorry. There’s a lot of work that went into Temple, and we priced it at what we think it’s worth. If you think its overpriced, you can wait for user reviews to decide if its worth your money.

3.⁠ ⁠Please do not support us because we are an Indian startup. We want to compete globally. We don’t need/want nationalist support. Support us if you want to support early innovation, which could help you live a better life, and will continue to add more proof to its science over the years.

4.⁠ ⁠There are different audiences which buy products at various levels of proof. Proof goes from whitepaper -> pre-print -> peer reviewed. You are free to sit on the fence until peer reviewed proof arrives. You are free to not believe it even then. Nobody is forcing you to buy. Making announcements is our right; and if we overclaim anywhere, we will inevitably fall into regulatory trouble everywhere in the world.

5.⁠ ⁠We didn’t make any medical claim. Doctors primarily see things from a medical lens, so they see every claim as a medical claim. I repeat – Temple is strictly a fitness + AI device, and we've made no medical claims. Temple is not proven to diagnose or prevent any disease. It doesn't do anything which replaces the need for you to see a doctor.

6.⁠ ⁠The main point of Temple is NOT Brain Flow. That’s what we just started Temple for, and studies on Brain Flow are the first ones getting out.

7.⁠ ⁠The main point of Temple is Entropy (I shared the HomeScreen of Temple three months ago with Entropy as the main thing). Our emails to our waitlisted users only talk about Entropy. We haven’t published anything on Entropy yet. We will. If you want to buy Temple before that, please do. If you don’t want to, don’t.

8.⁠ ⁠Roomdeaf AI is an expansion of the device’s capabilities, and our vision for Temple. It is not a pivot.

9.⁠ ⁠Social media is not the regulator for Temple. Wherever we need regulatory clearances, we will have them before we make any claim needing them.

10. I will post a detailed note on how we calculate Brain Flow, its uses, and most importantly, its limitations in a bit (tomorrow).

Pre-order at temple.com; first 10,000 orders never pay a subscription to use Temple.

Apologies where they are due: last night, I should not have bucketed all Indian doctors into one single box. We work with so many of them. Even my elder brother is one of them.

All my emotion last night was directed at a few influencer doctors, who are more influencers than doctors. They did not read our research in detail, and spread twisted facts to call something new a scam. They get views by piling on us. They wouldn't do that to a startup doing the same thing from some other first-time founder, because it would not get them views.

That's actually more a reflection of their petty mindset, than other doctors, our country, or our team.

Happy Diwali everyone! Have a good one. Keep building. We have a long way to go.

Temple is an ambitious project. The team is delusional enough to think we can build this. And we will.

Here's what we are building. Join the ride.