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When I see this kind of stuff I find them fascinating, because it's always the same story. People building a hardware product and then realizing that building h
by rjzzleep 5y ago
When I see this kind of stuff I find them fascinating, because it's always the same story. People building a hardware product and then realizing that building hardware, even when it looks simple has a lot of moving parts. Coming back from that is quite impressive.
But when people boast about their amazing products to reek in VC money I actually get upset. I'm not sure if I'm more upset at the founders or the VCs though.
For example recently they have been raving about oxide, how amazing it is, how amazing the founder is, how amazing the idea is. But if you look at the website with all the ambitious goals and an estimate of early 2022[1] I can already see this company burning money like no other without ever getting close to that estimate. Either they have zero clue about supply chain or their wilfully misleading investors or a little bit of both.
But I guess that's the world we live in.
[1] https://oxide.computer/ https://oxide.computer/
- shp0ngle 5y agoPlaydate does not seem like VC funded? Panic is existing Mac software company, that sold (arguably, niche) software at not-that-small prices (well, usual for Mac OS ecosystem, at least in 2000s/2010s), and had a modest success being a distributor of Untitled Goose Game; and PlayDate is made in relatively small numbers; I would think they are self-funded and not backed by VCs.
- Krustopolis 5y agoAnd Firewatch!
- rjzzleep 5y agoClearly I talked about two opposite directions. The first paragraph is about panic. The rest is about the companies that don't act like panic. Why lump it together?
- fra 5y agoPeople will link back to this comment in two years to point out how wrong / mean spirited HN can be sometimes.