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Watch the Jupe + YC CEOs video on the site and tell me it’s not a parody. Dude dressed like a guru talking about a glamping tent like it’s as ground breaking as

Watch the Jupe + YC CEOs video on the site and tell me it’s not a parody. Dude dressed like a guru talking about a glamping tent like it’s as ground breaking as a Tesla and will solve world housing. Wild.

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jb_gericke 3y ago
I can see these popping up all over the show at Burning Man. Maybe the guru dude just knows his audience?
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  There are already better "hexayurt" designs for BM better-designed to block/reflect all sunlight, made with foilized foam boards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexayurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexayurt
  - pengaru 3y ago
    > There are already better "hexayurt" designs for BM better-designed to block/reflect all sunlight, made with foilized foam boards. Have you ever actually occupied a hexayurt throughout a full summer day at burning man? My limited experience was that the typical one as executed @BM is just a dark, sweaty, oven. Excellent insulation by itself is a trap. Once you insulate a space with polyiso, you need good ventilation and heat removal. It's not really a good match for something so ad-hoc.
    - Scoundreller 3y ago
      Negative, but they appear popular. My guess is that they buy you a few extra hours of coolness in the morning if you open/close openings at the right time. Obvs you don't want to be in a hermetically sealed box ever.
    - jdblair 3y ago
      A hexayurt with a standard window air conditioner powered by a generator is glorious. Ours was tall enough to stand in and also had designer wallpaper. A 12V-powered filtered ventilation system meant the AC didn't need to be turned on until close to noon.
      - marssaxman 3y ago
        How did you affix the wallpaper?
        jdblair 3y ago
        Wallpaper paste.
        marssaxman 3y ago
        I am surprised that it sticks! We'll have to try that with ours; the manufacturer logos are not such a pleasant look.
    - marssaxman 3y ago
      You do need ventilation, but that's not hard; a small swamp cooler (plus a box fan) kept us as cool as we wanted to be: http://www.yurtcooler.com/ http://www.yurtcooler.com/
- sacnoradhq 3y ago
  These aren't ideal as they look fairly permanent. I don't see the labor or a time-lapse video of assembly or takedown.
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sacnoradhq 3y ago
Risking sounding like Mr. Wonderful: I can't tell if it's aspirational, pre-product marketing or a parody. If it wasn't a joke, then they've just reinvented the travel trailer without the convenience or the trailer. My conclusion then is that it's an elaborate trolling.
dpflan 3y ago
Looks like you can stay at the location where that video was filmed: Glamping at Jupe Redwoods on AirBnB: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/700752395276229298 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/700752395276229298
boudin 3y ago
It does feel likes this is straight out of a Silicon Valley episode.
tmslnz 3y ago
You took the words from my mouth :) Selling tents to clueless SV customers with disposable cash, with a not-so-veiled promise they can rent them out on Airbnb. It's the lime scooters of "housing": no permits, no safety, lawless, convenient, short-sighted. The guru guy, and his tasteless leveraging of someone's personal tragedy to his own grift is incredibly out of touch – provided even that is not made up.
- someguydave 3y ago
  Plumbing is too hard! We will just leave it out of our MVP!
Kaibeezy 3y ago
The number of times they referred to the “experience” as “crazy” or “insane”. The interviewer chucking in dundrearyisms (OK, maybe just situational code-switching) like “crib” and “right on, right on”, and “mama taught me right”. Parody of summat, but I’m afeared of what. Something from an AI marketing department this way comes.
- meetingthrower 3y ago
  "It's like we're bending space, right?" ROFL.
- pimlottc 3y ago
  What is a “dundrearyism“?
  - Kaibeezy 3y ago
    Water under the dam at this point, what what?
  - beaugunderson 3y ago
    "A twisted and consequentially nonsensical aphorism, such as "birds of a feather gather no moss"." "Named after Lord Dundreary, a foolish aristocrat in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin (1858), who utters remarks of this kind; +‎ -ism." from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism
infecto 3y ago
Is this a parody? Are people spending 25k on a tent? Holy smokes.

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jb_gericke 3y ago

I can see these popping up all over the show at Burning Man. Maybe the guru dude just knows his audience?

Scoundreller 3y ago
There are already better "hexayurt" designs for BM better-designed to block/reflect all sunlight, made with foilized foam boards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexayurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexayurt
- pengaru 3y ago
  > There are already better "hexayurt" designs for BM better-designed to block/reflect all sunlight, made with foilized foam boards. Have you ever actually occupied a hexayurt throughout a full summer day at burning man? My limited experience was that the typical one as executed @BM is just a dark, sweaty, oven. Excellent insulation by itself is a trap. Once you insulate a space with polyiso, you need good ventilation and heat removal. It's not really a good match for something so ad-hoc.
  - Scoundreller 3y ago
    Negative, but they appear popular. My guess is that they buy you a few extra hours of coolness in the morning if you open/close openings at the right time. Obvs you don't want to be in a hermetically sealed box ever.
  - jdblair 3y ago
    A hexayurt with a standard window air conditioner powered by a generator is glorious. Ours was tall enough to stand in and also had designer wallpaper. A 12V-powered filtered ventilation system meant the AC didn't need to be turned on until close to noon.
    - marssaxman 3y ago
      How did you affix the wallpaper?
      - jdblair 3y ago
        Wallpaper paste.
        marssaxman 3y ago
        I am surprised that it sticks! We'll have to try that with ours; the manufacturer logos are not such a pleasant look.
  - marssaxman 3y ago
    You do need ventilation, but that's not hard; a small swamp cooler (plus a box fan) kept us as cool as we wanted to be: http://www.yurtcooler.com/ http://www.yurtcooler.com/
sacnoradhq 3y ago
These aren't ideal as they look fairly permanent. I don't see the labor or a time-lapse video of assembly or takedown.

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sacnoradhq 3y ago

Risking sounding like Mr. Wonderful: I can't tell if it's aspirational, pre-product marketing or a parody. If it wasn't a joke, then they've just reinvented the travel trailer without the convenience or the trailer. My conclusion then is that it's an elaborate trolling.

dpflan 3y ago

Looks like you can stay at the location where that video was filmed: Glamping at Jupe Redwoods on AirBnB: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/700752395276229298 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/700752395276229298

boudin 3y ago

It does feel likes this is straight out of a Silicon Valley episode.

tmslnz 3y ago

You took the words from my mouth :) Selling tents to clueless SV customers with disposable cash, with a not-so-veiled promise they can rent them out on Airbnb. It's the lime scooters of "housing": no permits, no safety, lawless, convenient, short-sighted. The guru guy, and his tasteless leveraging of someone's personal tragedy to his own grift is incredibly out of touch – provided even that is not made up.

someguydave 3y ago
Plumbing is too hard! We will just leave it out of our MVP!

Kaibeezy 3y ago

The number of times they referred to the “experience” as “crazy” or “insane”. The interviewer chucking in dundrearyisms (OK, maybe just situational code-switching) like “crib” and “right on, right on”, and “mama taught me right”. Parody of summat, but I’m afeared of what. Something from an AI marketing department this way comes.

meetingthrower 3y ago
"It's like we're bending space, right?" ROFL.
pimlottc 3y ago
What is a “dundrearyism“?
- Kaibeezy 3y ago
  Water under the dam at this point, what what?
- beaugunderson 3y ago
  "A twisted and consequentially nonsensical aphorism, such as "birds of a feather gather no moss"." "Named after Lord Dundreary, a foolish aristocrat in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin (1858), who utters remarks of this kind; +‎ -ism." from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism

infecto 3y ago

Is this a parody? Are people spending 25k on a tent? Holy smokes.