**The Story Behind Lunar Watchbands: An Innovative Solution for Apple Watch Owners**

Lunar Watchbands was founded by Nick, the CEO and founder, who aimed to solve a common problem faced by Apple watch owners - limited sizing options on standard watch bands. In November 2019, they launched their first Kickstarter campaign, raising over $20,000 in support of their idea.

As time passed, the company received feedback from customers that while their watches were good, it was actually the band that made them stand out. People wished they could just have the band for their own watch, rather than the actual watch itself. This led to a realization that scaling the Chameleon brand would be challenging.

Inspiration struck, and Nick decided to pivot the company's focus to creating the greatest watch bands available, with infinite options for maximum comfort. The company was rebranded from Chameleon to Lunar, with their flagship product being the ultimate watch band for Apple watches, utilizing an innovative zip tie design.

**How Lunar Watchbands Works**

According to Nick, the problem most Apple watch owners face is the limited sizing options on standard bands. With just 7-8 holes, it's difficult to find a perfect fit. To solve this, Lunar designed a watchband with more sizing options than any other band on the market.

The process involves taking a synthetic silicone band and attaching a polycarbonate plastic buckle that is breathable and aid materials-friendly. The patented locking mechanism allows for ease of use, allowing users to slide in their wrist with ease, push down the lever, and lock it into place.

If the fit is too tight, the user can loosen it just like that, or make it tighter by tightening it just like that. The result is a band that fits perfectly tailored to your wrist.

**Behind-the-Scenes: How Lunar Watchbands are Made**

Nick takes us on a tour of the factory where their watchbands are made. We see an injection molding machine with a small mold (12" x 12") being used to create the bands. The process involves putting the synthetic silicone material into the machine, using the mold to shape it under tight pressure, and then allowing it to cool.

The next stop is a room where we see examples of their watchbands after they have been made. We see the molds, which are small and intricately designed, being used to create these beautiful bands.

**Conclusion**

Lunar Watchbands has come a long way from its humble beginnings as Chameleon. With a focus on creating innovative watch bands with infinite options for maximum comfort, they have created a product that solves a common problem faced by Apple watch owners. We see how the watchbands are made, and it's clear that this is a company that prides itself on quality and attention to detail.

If you're interested in learning more about Lunar Watchbands or supporting their Kickstarter campaign, be sure to check out the links in the description below.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmy name is Nick I'm the CEO and founder of lunar watchbands hey what is up YouTube Welcome Back to the custom adventurous my name is Ben and I am the owner of the custom adventurous YouTube channel I love technology I love business and welcome to all new series called bootstrapped in this series we see behind the scenes and minds of inspired on R preneurs and startups in the tech world today if there's any company you like me to go and do a bootstrap episode on be sure to leave it in the comments I'm super excited about these can't wait to do many many more but yeah leave them in the comments today we met with the CEO and founder of lunar and also the watch company chameleon the journey for him started with a problem that he saw in watch bands today that sometimes you can never quite get the right fit they're either too loose or too tight taking inspiration from the mission belt which uses a ratcheting system like a zip tie to get the perfect fit for your belt they applied this to their watch bands their first Endeavor at this was their own watch company called chameleon they launched their first Kickstarter campaign in November of 2019 and they were able to raise over $20,000 to back their idea as time went on and as they began to get more feedback about their watch they realized that their watches were good but the thing that really set them apart from other companies was the band that they made not the actual watch people would say that they wish they just had the band for their own watch and not their actual watch due to this they struggled to scale the chameleon brand as they planned this is when inspiration struck and they pivoted to their guns they decided to fully focus on just making the greatest Watchmen you can find out there with infinite options for maximum comfort with their new launch switching from chameleon to lunar the newest Flagship product being the ultimate watch B for Apple watches using that Innovative zip tie design now I'm going to let Nick tell the rest my name is Nick I'm the CEO and founder of lunar watchbands and today I'm going to show you how we make the product that you all guys have loved so let's start off with the problem that most of you guys that wear Apple watches have and that is there's not enough sizing options on Apple watch bands look at that that's probably seven or eight holes and we wanted to find a way to fix that so we at lunar decided that we were going to engineer a watchband that had more sizing options than any other watch band on the market today case in point more sizing options more happy people so how it works is you take the band which is made out of a synthetic silicone and our Buckle which is made out of a polycarbonate plastic both are meant to be breathable and Aid materials hence forth as you insert it in here our locking mechanism which is patented allows for the band to slide in with ease you push the lever down and it locks into place guess what if that's too tight that's fine you can loosen it just like that if you want to make it tighter just tighten it just like that and it fits perfectly tailored to your wrist let's go see how this stuff is made though I can talk about it but let's go see how it's made so the machine that we're coming to right now is called an injection molding machine and we have a mold that we put inside this machine now this mold that I'm talking about is probably about 12 in x 12 in it's really small but what's funny is it goes into this giant machine and comes out like this this giant machine allows me to put in whatever material that I want whatever types of synthetic silicon into here and then using our mold it suppresses it with this giant giant like arm and crushes the silicone and pushes it in and pounds it in to the point where it forms this under tight heated pressure pretty cool so the next place that we're going to is we're going to show you a little bit more about some of the bands and after they've been made what they look like okay come follow me let's see what's behind this door all right let's go down the lawn dark creepy hallway around all right so in here this is a good example of what our mold looks like this is the bottom and this is the top and what it ends up turning into is a beautiful watch band you cannot emphasize enough how much Manpower and grit and smarts it takes into making this a reality and it all starts with an idea the idea that stems from solving a problem that everyday watch wearers have and that's lunar in a nutshell I was able to get handson with these watchbands and they are freaking awesome I love this this ratting I have I am a very big watch fanatic I love watches and seeing their Innovative design for the watch band was really really awesome I personally will be getting one of their watch bands thank you so much for watching this video if you like to check out the lunar watch band or their Kickstarter or anything like that it'll be linked in the description be sure to go check it out and to blow them up for me be sure to recommend other entrepreneurs for me to go check out other startups other Tech things I would love to go check them out but yeah make sure like subscribe and peace ohmy name is Nick I'm the CEO and founder of lunar watchbands hey what is up YouTube Welcome Back to the custom adventurous my name is Ben and I am the owner of the custom adventurous YouTube channel I love technology I love business and welcome to all new series called bootstrapped in this series we see behind the scenes and minds of inspired on R preneurs and startups in the tech world today if there's any company you like me to go and do a bootstrap episode on be sure to leave it in the comments I'm super excited about these can't wait to do many many more but yeah leave them in the comments today we met with the CEO and founder of lunar and also the watch company chameleon the journey for him started with a problem that he saw in watch bands today that sometimes you can never quite get the right fit they're either too loose or too tight taking inspiration from the mission belt which uses a ratcheting system like a zip tie to get the perfect fit for your belt they applied this to their watch bands their first Endeavor at this was their own watch company called chameleon they launched their first Kickstarter campaign in November of 2019 and they were able to raise over $20,000 to back their idea as time went on and as they began to get more feedback about their watch they realized that their watches were good but the thing that really set them apart from other companies was the band that they made not the actual watch people would say that they wish they just had the band for their own watch and not their actual watch due to this they struggled to scale the chameleon brand as they planned this is when inspiration struck and they pivoted to their guns they decided to fully focus on just making the greatest Watchmen you can find out there with infinite options for maximum comfort with their new launch switching from chameleon to lunar the newest Flagship product being the ultimate watch B for Apple watches using that Innovative zip tie design now I'm going to let Nick tell the rest my name is Nick I'm the CEO and founder of lunar watchbands and today I'm going to show you how we make the product that you all guys have loved so let's start off with the problem that most of you guys that wear Apple watches have and that is there's not enough sizing options on Apple watch bands look at that that's probably seven or eight holes and we wanted to find a way to fix that so we at lunar decided that we were going to engineer a watchband that had more sizing options than any other watch band on the market today case in point more sizing options more happy people so how it works is you take the band which is made out of a synthetic silicone and our Buckle which is made out of a polycarbonate plastic both are meant to be breathable and Aid materials hence forth as you insert it in here our locking mechanism which is patented allows for the band to slide in with ease you push the lever down and it locks into place guess what if that's too tight that's fine you can loosen it just like that if you want to make it tighter just tighten it just like that and it fits perfectly tailored to your wrist let's go see how this stuff is made though I can talk about it but let's go see how it's made so the machine that we're coming to right now is called an injection molding machine and we have a mold that we put inside this machine now this mold that I'm talking about is probably about 12 in x 12 in it's really small but what's funny is it goes into this giant machine and comes out like this this giant machine allows me to put in whatever material that I want whatever types of synthetic silicon into here and then using our mold it suppresses it with this giant giant like arm and crushes the silicone and pushes it in and pounds it in to the point where it forms this under tight heated pressure pretty cool so the next place that we're going to is we're going to show you a little bit more about some of the bands and after they've been made what they look like okay come follow me let's see what's behind this door all right let's go down the lawn dark creepy hallway around all right so in here this is a good example of what our mold looks like this is the bottom and this is the top and what it ends up turning into is a beautiful watch band you cannot emphasize enough how much Manpower and grit and smarts it takes into making this a reality and it all starts with an idea the idea that stems from solving a problem that everyday watch wearers have and that's lunar in a nutshell I was able to get handson with these watchbands and they are freaking awesome I love this this ratting I have I am a very big watch fanatic I love watches and seeing their Innovative design for the watch band was really really awesome I personally will be getting one of their watch bands thank you so much for watching this video if you like to check out the lunar watch band or their Kickstarter or anything like that it'll be linked in the description be sure to go check it out and to blow them up for me be sure to recommend other entrepreneurs for me to go check out other startups other Tech things I would love to go check them out but yeah make sure like subscribe and peace oh