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This is definitely an area that is going to grow. I think most of the initial growth will be in the low-end, cheap, disposable projects - stuff for managing you

This is definitely an area that is going to grow. I think most of the initial growth will be in the low-end, cheap, disposable projects - stuff for managing your home (IoT), for example where you want as much control over the whole stack as possible. The current IoT hype has blown over a little, but the need to control various things around you in an intelligent and safe way is still an unsolved problem, worth exploring further.

axegon_ 5y ago
> The current IoT hype has blown over a little I don't think it ever picked up: It was trying to solve a problem which didn't exist at the time. In the mid 2010's when they started popping up, the economy was growing and most of climate change, lowering carbon footprints and all that was seen as "Greta Thunberg's pretentious and delusional world" to working class citizens. And for the most part that still would have been the case if it wasn't for covid and the accompanying inflation. I don't think average Joe has learned a lesson from it or realizing how fragile our economy is. Almost like enforced necessity: "hey my electric bill is 4 times what it used to be" opens a new market. The ecosystem however was(and sadly still is) appalling: You get a hama wifi enabled light bulb, you need to download their app to set it up. You buy a Phillips one a few months later and you need to download yet another app to set it up. Not to mention the absolute hell that are both google home and alexa. Worst of all is that there are no efforts to open source alternatives(home assistant technically relies on either google or amazon). Privacy aside, their interfacing options are equally annoying. I do have a few wifi enabled light bulbs and I turn them on for my dog when I'm not at home through google and it is just as messy as it was on day one.

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This is definitely an area that is going to grow. I think most of the initial growth will be in the low-end, cheap, disposable projects - stuff for managing you

by xchaotic 5y ago

axegon_ 5y ago
> The current IoT hype has blown over a little I don't think it ever picked up: It was trying to solve a problem which didn't exist at the time. In the mid 2010's when they started popping up, the economy was growing and most of climate change, lowering carbon footprints and all that was seen as "Greta Thunberg's pretentious and delusional world" to working class citizens. And for the most part that still would have been the case if it wasn't for covid and the accompanying inflation. I don't think average Joe has learned a lesson from it or realizing how fragile our economy is. Almost like enforced necessity: "hey my electric bill is 4 times what it used to be" opens a new market. The ecosystem however was(and sadly still is) appalling: You get a hama wifi enabled light bulb, you need to download their app to set it up. You buy a Phillips one a few months later and you need to download yet another app to set it up. Not to mention the absolute hell that are both google home and alexa. Worst of all is that there are no efforts to open source alternatives(home assistant technically relies on either google or amazon). Privacy aside, their interfacing options are equally annoying. I do have a few wifi enabled light bulbs and I turn them on for my dog when I'm not at home through google and it is just as messy as it was on day one.