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Freshly pressed juice is sold at a pretty high markup and little stands and shops seem to make a hefty margin. They charge like $10 for 12oz. of freshly pressed
by kin 9y ago
Freshly pressed juice is sold at a pretty high markup and little stands and shops seem to make a hefty margin. They charge like $10 for 12oz. of freshly pressed fruit and veggies. So, there's a ton of upside in selling packets and I can see how they made believers out of early investors.
But wow did they go about it wrong, charging $699 for a machine that does a worse job than your bare hands!? Was there not one investor who did a technical due diligence? I'm so surprised.
- chx 9y agoInvestors put close to thirty million into a wireless charging company in four rounds completely disregarding it's impossible to create what they want according to the law of physics.
- bauerd 9y agoSource? I could use a laugh right now
- kgwgk 9y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=uBeam https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uBeam
- nimish 9y agouBeam ultrasonic charging is physically impossible
- phonon 9y ago...at a useful enough wattage to replace existing charging systems, while be small and convenient enough to attach to a cell phone. The actual technology works...just not well enough, and scaling it to be an order of magnitude more useful is probably physically impossible.
- Simon_says 9y agoI imagine he's talking about uBeam. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852896
- gh02t 9y agoHere's Dave Jones ripping into it pretty hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA The talk by the uBeam CEO he links is also pretty infuriating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c Her core hypothesis that experts can often get stuck "inside the box" is certainly valid, but on the other hand "I sat down and solved complex engineering problems in a few minutes with pencil and paper" (almost an exact quote from the talk) is just plain dumb. Not to mention the not subtle implication that good engineers are all socially retarded...
- TeMPOraL 9y agouBeam - the longest running joke of Silicon Valley.
- smartician 9y agoEspecially when you can just buy a $299 masticating juicer where you can use any DRM-free fruits and vegetables. Like you, I'm flabbergasted about the amount of funding they received, not only because it's bad economically, but also ecologically. And the target demographic is likely going to be more sensitive to the amount of garbage a Keurig-ified juicer will produce over its lifetime.