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Isn't Andon Labs the SF startup that burned a bunch of money having AI run a shop into the ground?
by jmcgough 18d ago
Isn't Andon Labs the SF startup that burned a bunch of money having AI run a shop into the ground?
- wavemode 17d agoThis seems like one of those ideas that is intentionally ahead of its time. All of the "Real-world" demos they have are deeply unprofitable, but have drummed up excitement and news coverage (and investor money, likely).
- AndrewKemendo 18d agoWhen your tech doesn’t catch on there’s usually a last ditch effort to “open source” it if nobody wants to buy the tech It’s the tech company death rattle
- SyneRyder 17d agoThat's the startup, though the SF market store is still running and open. It looks like their AI-run cafe in Sweden is still running for now as well.
- darkwater 17d agowell, not THAT well https://andonlabs.com/cafe https://andonlabs.com/cafe
- SyneRyder 17d agoKind of interesting just how much they're getting crushed with token API pricing. Right now the revenue isn't even covering their token costs. But if they were able to run on subscription (probably against ToS) or use Deepseek V4.1 Flash or GLM 5.3 Flash, they'd at least be "profitable" before the costs of paying human salaries & rent comes in. I'm also surprised that Gemini actually seemed to do the best (though it may have benefited from the initial store opening enthusiasm), and that Claude has not been given any chance to run the cafe yet.
- hackmetothemoon 12d ago[dead]