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That’s why a scam startup is able to rocket as soon as 1 named investor signs on. See the juice squeezing bag company etc.

kylebenzle 3y ago
Hey Juicearoo was a great product! It solved the problem of me having a bag of juice and needing to get the juice out.
- benreesman 3y ago
  I’m this close to having this printed and framed, but I can’t find framearoo.com.
- stephencanon 3y ago
  They had outstanding product-market fit. The _only_ problem is that the market of people who have juice bags and do not know how to open them (I.e. two year olds) do not make purchasing decisions.
- Drakim 3y ago
  They should simply have gone the the industry standard route and lobbied to make it illegal to squeeze the bags by hand.
adolph 3y ago
On paper it makes sense to have a microprocessor guide the pressure used on fruit and vegetable pulp [0]. Between that and the introduction of software to manage the fruit supply chain, the Juicero embodied Marc Andreessen's prophecy [1]. Unfortunately, they got the verb wrong: software is eating _not_ drinking the world. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero 1. https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/ https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
- jeremyjh 3y ago
  Does it make sense to have an engine squeeze a pre-packaged bag of juice?
  - adolph 3y ago
    Of course not. However, it wasn’t prepackaged juice (liquid), it was pulp, the part of plants from which juice is squeezed. Have you ever seen one of those machines in restaurants that from a hopper full of oranges, automatically slices, squeezes the juice into a glass and puts the rind etc into a composting bag? They do that to deliver a fresh glass of juice that people believe has a material difference from a can of frozen concentrate. Juicero was that but simplified and expanded to more than just oranges. Consider the factory process of making different juices. Might use heat, introduce other molecules, etc. By performing part of the task in the factory and the final extraction onprem, there may be some meaningful differences in the consumable. But sure, let’s all poke fun at something without considering the operational context. https://www.ticomachine.com/faq/how-is-orange-juice-made.html https://www.ticomachine.com/faq/how-is-orange-juice-made.htm...
    - blitzar 3y ago
      > Have you ever seen one of those machines in restaurants that from a hopper full of oranges automatically slices, squeezes the juice into a glass and puts the rind etc into a composting bag Apparently the founders and investors had not.
      - adolph 3y ago
        Give it 10 years. You will drink from the same and think “ok, jucero had a point, they were just too early”

kylebenzle 3y ago

Hey Juicearoo was a great product! It solved the problem of me having a bag of juice and needing to get the juice out.

benreesman 3y ago
I’m this close to having this printed and framed, but I can’t find framearoo.com.
stephencanon 3y ago
They had outstanding product-market fit. The _only_ problem is that the market of people who have juice bags and do not know how to open them (I.e. two year olds) do not make purchasing decisions.
Drakim 3y ago
They should simply have gone the the industry standard route and lobbied to make it illegal to squeeze the bags by hand.

adolph 3y ago

On paper it makes sense to have a microprocessor guide the pressure used on fruit and vegetable pulp [0]. Between that and the introduction of software to manage the fruit supply chain, the Juicero embodied Marc Andreessen's prophecy [1]. Unfortunately, they got the verb wrong: software is eating _not_ drinking the world. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero 1. https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/ https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

jeremyjh 3y ago
Does it make sense to have an engine squeeze a pre-packaged bag of juice?
- adolph 3y ago
  Of course not. However, it wasn’t prepackaged juice (liquid), it was pulp, the part of plants from which juice is squeezed. Have you ever seen one of those machines in restaurants that from a hopper full of oranges, automatically slices, squeezes the juice into a glass and puts the rind etc into a composting bag? They do that to deliver a fresh glass of juice that people believe has a material difference from a can of frozen concentrate. Juicero was that but simplified and expanded to more than just oranges. Consider the factory process of making different juices. Might use heat, introduce other molecules, etc. By performing part of the task in the factory and the final extraction onprem, there may be some meaningful differences in the consumable. But sure, let’s all poke fun at something without considering the operational context. https://www.ticomachine.com/faq/how-is-orange-juice-made.html https://www.ticomachine.com/faq/how-is-orange-juice-made.htm...
  - blitzar 3y ago
    > Have you ever seen one of those machines in restaurants that from a hopper full of oranges automatically slices, squeezes the juice into a glass and puts the rind etc into a composting bag Apparently the founders and investors had not.
    - adolph 3y ago
      Give it 10 years. You will drink from the same and think “ok, jucero had a point, they were just too early”