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Juicero Founder Now Promoting $40 Jugs of ‘Raw Water’ in Silicon Valley
- djroomba 9y agoWho is buying this? Is he a genius at finding insane markets or is this just bogus?
- _rpd 9y agoBeing (perceived as) healthy has been a factor in social status since antiquity. For every status competition, you are going to find people who are willing to pay for high perceived status.
- yakitori 9y agoWho buys $1000 sunglasses? Who buys $1000 jeans? Who buys $500 sneakers? Dumb people with too much money.
- nudiustertian 9y agocouldnt be more different
- Yetanfou 9y agoWhile the product categories differ, the exorbitant price asked makes this 'raw water' target the same demography: those who have more money than sense and those who use these products for the purpose of affluence signalling.
- atsushin 9y agoGiardia isn't particularly tasty.
- noetic_techy 9y agoWhy not simply use pure osmisis water, then add in some friendly pro-biotics and minerals. All the upside, no down-slime. I'll call it: Engineered Unfiltered Water. Who's with me? I'll even add a weight loss tape worm as a $100 DLC. Ultra-gut-cleanse Giardia for $300.
- themoat 9y agoWhat kind of DRM can you promise me? I'm not in unless we protect our IP
- noetic_techy 9y agoThere will be a little blurb on the back label with vague threats like "If you copy me, I will find you..."
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoI'll happily sell unfiltered, unpurified, un-whatever'd water from my well for half that! Any takers?
- Sangermaine 9y agoWhen will these conmen end up in jail where they belong?
- grzm 9y agoDiscussed 11 days ago, 79 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040540
- nathanaldensr 9y agoSure, let's throw away decades of improvements to public water supplies--undoubtedly the safest they've ever been in human history--to sell dirty, likely contaminated water. This man is mentally ill.
- dogma1138 9y agoFlint Michigan can now go into an economic boom by exporting its water to SV.
- brianpgordon 9y ago> Tap water? You’re drinking toilet water This is literally straight from Idiocracy.
- TYPE_FASTER 9y agoUber for water
- marchenko 9y agoI've got several antique sealed glass carafes decanted from the Broad Street pump circa 1854... as an added bonus, I'll throw in the original lead stoppers.
- codewritinfool 9y agoThis doesn't sound like a good idea, but I'm not a medical doctor.
- gumby 9y agoI know the NYT article said “Silicon Valley” but these “Live” guys are in LA and everybody they talked to was in Marin and SF. The valley suburbia has its own looney pretentious (mostly boring nimbyism, honestly) but this kind of crap seems to get traction only where the anti-vaxxers hang out.
- Chaebixi 9y agoI will sell you water from my sump, only $10 a bottle.