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It is not clear to me from the article their relationship with YC. It begins "YC accepted our original idea, to build affordable wireless networks for developin
by JDGM 13y ago
It is not clear to me from the article their relationship with YC. It begins "YC accepted our original idea, to build affordable wireless networks for developing countries, for the summer 2012 batch", before explaining how that didn't work out and they moved to "working on a handful of projects. Sometimes collectively, sometimes independently".
Then the article begins on Soylent and, aside from a few appearances from Paul Graham, YC isn't mentioned again (literally, I even used the find function to check I hadn't read too quickly and missed a crucial paragraph).
From when "YC accepted our original idea" has everything these guys have done been under a kind of YC umbrella? Did they break away then re-establish with YC when Soylent started taking off? I have no idea how any of this works. Could someone fill in what is between the lines here please?
On another note, I've enjoyed the passion and controversy of the Soylent topics on here and avoided commenting because someone has always said what I was going to - except they've said it hours ago and four people have made good rebuttals, and four more have made rebuttals to each those, and so on, to the point where I just want to drink it all in rather than join the noise. However, this part seems a new one on me:
"Rob would simply go to the pitcher, shake it once, and pour a delicious meal for himself"
Delicious? I was under the impression Soylent was either fairly tasteless or mildly unpleasant-tasting. Is it really delicious? In what way? Why? How?
- marknutter 13y ago> Delicious? I was under the impression Soylent was either fairly tasteless or mildly unpleasant-tasting. Is it really delicious? In what way? Why? How? It has quite a bit of sugar. Just go back and read the many articles that have been written by both the founders and the press.
- JDGM 13y agoThanks. I've just done a google and the only person I can find describing Soylent as 'delicious' in the first few hits is Rob himself, who even says "I'm not trying to make something delicious; there are already a lot of delicious things" - that's defending Soylent's taste in this Gawker article http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-future-510293401 http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-fut.... The piece contains the following: "Soylent tastes like the homemade nontoxic Play-Doh you made, and sometimes ate, as a kid. Slightly sweet and earthy with a strong yeasty aftertaste." "It tasted like when you're baking and you taste the ingredients even if there's not sugar or vanilla in there, you just have a compulsion to taste wet food." "My mouth tastes hot and like old cheese." "It tasted like someone wrung out a dishtowel into a glass." As a health food Soylent had my curiosity. As a 'delicious' food it has my attention. However, that attention appears to have been misallocated.
- marknutter 13y agoHaha, well, at least it's not completely undrinkable :)
- kbutler 13y agoYMMV. "It was delicious! I felt like I'd just had the best breakfast of my life. It tasted like a sweet, succulent, hearty meal in a glass, which is what it is, I suppose." --http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298 http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298 Gawker staff tried Soylent. Feedback was mixed. Including: "[It] made me feel like joining a cult, after just one sip." "It tasted like when you're baking and you taste the ingredients even if there's not sugar or vanilla in there, you just have a compulsion to taste wet food." "My mouth tastes hot and like old cheese." "It tasted like someone wrung out a dishtowel into a glass." "It was great and I love it. I don't want to eat anymore." --http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-future-510293401 http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-fut...