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As a backer myself: this reads like someone who quite literally no idea what they were doing or getting into in the first place and likely doing it for all the
by debt 12y ago
As a backer myself: this reads like someone who quite literally no idea what they were doing or getting into in the first place and likely doing it for all the wrong reasons. How did they not know the difference between building a single prototype by hand and manufacturing thousands of units? It sucks to think these people have now devoted a few years of their lives, likely stressful years at that, to general incompetence. You got your kickstarter funded now you're saying "sorry it's just hard" to ship the requested units? All so some people can remotely lock something. The case study should highlight how it happened that y'all missed the points above in the first place and put emphasis ob why someone does a Kickstarter to begin with.
- gkoberger 12y agoThey underestimated how hard it would be, however I don't think it was incompetence. They knew it would be hard, and it was even harder than they assumed -- like any startup (hardware or software) ends up being. It's easy to have opinions when you aren't the one building it.
- bravo22 12y agoI agree. I'd say it was overconfidence more than incompetence; coupled with a slightly unhealthy dose of overpromising/misleading on key features.
- dgreensp 12y agoIt doesn't sound like they wasted any time due to incompetence to me, it sounds like they took a few years to do something that realistically takes a few years.
- URSpider94 12y agoI don't think that's accurate. Mature product development companies regularly turn out products of this complexity, or much higher, in 12 months or less.
- prawn 12y agoBy getting lucky with suppliers and parts, or knowing the pitfalls ahead of time?
- bravo22 12y agoBoth but mostly knowing the pitfalls ahead of time, i.e. experience and knowledge.
- dgreensp 12y agoTwo guys aren't a "mature product development company." Also, it's pretty common for a big company to take a few years to develop a new product and produce it at scale.