01 / Product idea
Social interaction designed to leave the phone in your pocket
Vyrb was created around a simple tension: social products keep people connected, but usually require continuous visual attention. The product explored another route by putting audio posts, messages, and navigation into a voice-led experience.
Innovative Eyewear positioned the application for connected wearables, including its Lucyd smart glasses, while still providing a visual mobile interface.
02 / The situation
An unconventional concept needed a complete product system
A hands-free social network could not simply reproduce a visual feed and add audio controls. The interaction model had to account for creating posts, hearing content in sequence, moving through messages, and managing settings without depending on the screen.
Botmer's supplied engagement scope covered the design and full-stack development needed to turn that concept into a working social application.
03 / Voice-first experience
Designing for listening, speaking, and staying present
The experience centred on audio posts and hands-free commands. Vyrb's public materials described using voice commands to create posts, check messages, and hear customised audio content.
Autoplay gave the product its own rhythm: users could move through feed or mailbox content as an audible sequence instead of repeatedly returning to a screen.
04 / Botmer's role
From product design through the full-stack build
Botmer's verified role covered product design, full-stack development, the audio-first experience, voice commands, and Autoplay. The work joined visible mobile flows with the product behaviour required for hands-free use.
No unverified frameworks, integrations, adoption metrics, performance gains, or funding outcomes are attributed to the engagement.
05 / Product interfaces
Audio creation and control across the app
Approved Vyrb imagery showing audio post creation, Autoplay controls, and account settings.
06 / How we worked
Keeping product and engineering inside one delivery path
Because the interaction model was central to the technical product, design decisions and full-stack delivery had to stay connected. Botmer carried both areas, supporting a consistent route from voice-led journeys into a functioning application.
07 / Historical status
Recording the public product history without overstating the present
Innovative Eyewear's SEC filing says Vyrb entered open beta on iOS and Android in December 2021. The current Apple listing remains accessible and shows version 1.05, released in January 2023.
The same 2023 filing described a fuller release as planned for 2024 after company resources shifted toward the Lucyd app. A current Vyrb Android listing or later full-release milestone could not be verified during this review, so the case study does not imply either.
08 / Supported outcomes
What the engagement produced and publicly demonstrated
The verified outcome was a designed and developed social audio product that reached public open beta and remains represented by an Apple App Store record.
- 01Voice-first product experience
Audio posting, listening, and command-led interaction formed the core product model. - 02Complete product delivery
Botmer carried the work from design through full-stack development. - 03Public open beta
Company filings record an iOS and Android open-beta launch in December 2021.
09 / Capability areas
Building around a new mode of interaction
Voice-first design
Shaping social journeys around listening and speaking instead of constant visual input.
Audio interaction
Connecting posts, messages, commands, and Autoplay into one product system.
Full-stack build
Developing the working product across its user-facing and supporting layers.
Wearable context
Designing a mobile application intended to work with connected audio wearables.
10 / Public references
Sources and status boundaries
Product functions, ownership, beta history, and historical status were checked against first-party and regulatory records. Botmer's contribution comes from the approved engagement brief and existing portfolio record.
- Vyrb Apple App Store listing — voice commands, Autoplay, platform details, developer, and version history
- Innovative Eyewear product announcement — official open-beta and social audio positioning
- Innovative Eyewear 2023 Form 10-K — ownership, location, beta history, product context, and historical release plans
- Botmer client portfolio — Botmer-controlled summary of design and full-stack contribution