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This is the first paragraph that shows up when seeing the site in mobile safari: > I know people are going to ask me a lot of questions about why I started thi

by mstade 9y ago

This is the first paragraph that shows up when seeing the site in mobile safari: > I know people are going to ask me a lot of questions about why I started this company. Why didn’t I just travel the world, ride my motorcycle, tinker with my robots, hang out at my bakery with friends and family. And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes…but not too often. 1. Maybe I'm not geeky enough, but I don't know who you are 2. I don't care who you are 3. What are you selling? A phone? 4. Oh screw this, I don't care enough to read past that pompous nonsense... Oh well.

curiousgal 9y ago
I know who he is and I cringed at the humblebrag.
OnionBreathDang 9y ago
... my thoughts exactly. And, just to make doubly sure there's no chance anyone will know WTF this is all about, let's present it all using an illegible (but no doubt extremely hipster) grey text on a grey background website design!
raverbashing 9y ago
And that's absolutely fine, the site wasn't built for you It filled its purpose of filtering those that are further on the adoption curve away
- 19273921 9y ago
  Amazing what kind of bullshit people write here. But dang protects this and wants it this way.
- arkitaip 9y ago
  Of course you got downvoted for telling the truth. Essential seems to be in pre-launch and Rubin is one helluva competitive advantage who early adopters will know about.
  - bobsam 9y ago
    While we are discussing this, is there a name of OPs behaviour? If not, can I suggest ignorantbragg? How about zippbrag? Maybe whaowhatwhenbrag?
superplussed 9y ago
Yeah, this didn't make sense to me. It's the most important real-estate on the page, and not only is he humble-bragging, but he's instilling some doubt into his commitment to the project. "And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes.." It's also so informal and personal that it made me think that what followed was going to be kind of a blog entry, or a simple and static announcement page, not what was actually a pretty compelling product walkthrough. But then at the end I scrolled back to the top, and was like, was this actually effective? It doesn't read like marketing speech, and I did end up reading the entire page. Maybe they know something that I don't? But it still seems so misplaced among all of the obvious craftsmanship that went into the rest of the page.
bobsam 9y ago
> I don't know who you are You might not know that he created Android, but surely you must know that he created the sidekick?? Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone.
- Karzyn 9y ago
  >Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone. Wow, how incredibly dismissive and insulting. There's estimated to be something like 2 billion smartphone users globally. Sorry that some of us aren't as cool/hip/in touch as you to know the name of one (admittedly important) person involved in their development.
- mstade 9y ago
  > Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone. Do you know who Nils Bohlin was? If not, I guess you don't need three point seat belts in your car. Maybe I'm being facetious, but this seems to me about as on point as your comment – which is to say not at all. Of course I can enjoy the benefits of a smartphone, even need them, regardless of whether or not I know who someone is.

by mstade 9y ago

curiousgal 9y ago

I know who he is and I cringed at the humblebrag.

OnionBreathDang 9y ago

... my thoughts exactly. And, just to make doubly sure there's no chance anyone will know WTF this is all about, let's present it all using an illegible (but no doubt extremely hipster) grey text on a grey background website design!

raverbashing 9y ago

And that's absolutely fine, the site wasn't built for you It filled its purpose of filtering those that are further on the adoption curve away

19273921 9y ago
Amazing what kind of bullshit people write here. But dang protects this and wants it this way.
arkitaip 9y ago
Of course you got downvoted for telling the truth. Essential seems to be in pre-launch and Rubin is one helluva competitive advantage who early adopters will know about.
- bobsam 9y ago
  While we are discussing this, is there a name of OPs behaviour? If not, can I suggest ignorantbragg? How about zippbrag? Maybe whaowhatwhenbrag?

superplussed 9y ago

Yeah, this didn't make sense to me. It's the most important real-estate on the page, and not only is he humble-bragging, but he's instilling some doubt into his commitment to the project. "And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes.." It's also so informal and personal that it made me think that what followed was going to be kind of a blog entry, or a simple and static announcement page, not what was actually a pretty compelling product walkthrough. But then at the end I scrolled back to the top, and was like, was this actually effective? It doesn't read like marketing speech, and I did end up reading the entire page. Maybe they know something that I don't? But it still seems so misplaced among all of the obvious craftsmanship that went into the rest of the page.

bobsam 9y ago

> I don't know who you are You might not know that he created Android, but surely you must know that he created the sidekick?? Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone.

Karzyn 9y ago
>Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone. Wow, how incredibly dismissive and insulting. There's estimated to be something like 2 billion smartphone users globally. Sorry that some of us aren't as cool/hip/in touch as you to know the name of one (admittedly important) person involved in their development.
mstade 9y ago
> Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone. Do you know who Nils Bohlin was? If not, I guess you don't need three point seat belts in your car. Maybe I'm being facetious, but this seems to me about as on point as your comment – which is to say not at all. Of course I can enjoy the benefits of a smartphone, even need them, regardless of whether or not I know who someone is.