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I second that. Originally we were targeting schools as our main customers but found it incredible difficult to sell too. The main reason probably that the ben

I second that. Originally we were targeting schools as our main customers but found it incredible difficult to sell too. The main reason probably that the beneficiaries (the students) are not the decision makers (the school admin) and that our product (air quality) is also not a core aspect of a school. There also seems to be a run to the bottom regarding quality of products in many schools and no appreciation for sustainable and long lasting products. We moved on in the meantime which is a pity because we would have loved to work more with students on air pollution and climate change.

KineticLensman 2y ago
> the beneficiaries (the students) are not the decision makers (the school admin) This is an example of a standard problem in enterprise computing where the people with purchasing authority are far removed from the actual users.
- mlinhares 2y ago
  Hey, but I got a great pricing deal to run our apps at this cloud provider no one uses and we have no experience with so you’ll have to migrate everything there!
- notarobot123 2y ago
  Is this perhaps a general failure mode of private investment into civic institutions? Centralized decision-making has inevitable blind-spots and, as a general rule, doesn't work well for larger scale resource distribution problems.