You know that feeling when it’s 2 a.m., your window’s wide open, you’re laying completely still in bed, and you’re still sweating? Yeah… that was basically my life during my semester living in France. At first, I didn’t care that I had no AC, it was still winter and nights were still cool. As it started getting warmer, the flowers started blooming and hanging out by the river until sunset was a must, but once the night rolled in the temperature was unbearable!!
No AC, no fan strong enough to make a difference, and definitely no motivation to do anything besides complain about the heat. My friends and I were all in the same boat—melting in our tiny student apartments, opening the fridge every hour just for a moment of cool air.
At some point, I snapped. I was like, there has to be a better way to sleep without feeling like I’m being slow-cooked. That frustration turned into late-night brainstorming with my roommates, and somehow (probably delirious from the heat), we came up with the idea for what eventually became ThermaCool.
Fast forward a few months, a lot of trial and error, and way too many prototype fails… and we finally made something that actually worked. I remember the first night I tested it—I didn’t wake up drenched in sweat. I didn’t even think about the heat. I just slept. It was magical.
Now I bring my ThermaCool blanket everywhere. Like, it lives in my backpack. I’ve used it on overnight trains, thrown it over myself in random hostels, even wrapped up in it during a layover on a sweaty airport floor. It’s one of those things I didn’t realize I needed until I had it—and now I lowkey panic if I forget to pack it.
We never set out to start a “real” company. We just wanted to solve our own problem. But it turns out, a lot of people are sick of sweating through the summer, too.
So if you’re currently in that “fan-on-full-blast, ice-pack-on-your-neck, regretting-every-life-choice” stage of heat exhaustion… I get it. I’ve been there. And honestly, ThermaCool might just be your new best friend.
Stay cool (literally),
— One overheated but finally chill student
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