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Introducing Carrot
- memming 12y agoNicely done. Where can I get one?
- angilly 12y agoLooks like there's a pre-order campaign. Probably will ship early 2016 once they wash out all the... bugs.... :-D
- arafalov 12y agoAvailable immediately in most of the (farmers') markets near you.
- colinbartlett 12y agoYou can't actually buy it yet. But you can contribute to its development via Kickstarter. Acquaintance level donation at $5 will give you email updates when Carrot grows. Friend level at $20 and you'll get a Carrot seed. Baby Carrot level at $50 will get you a spot in the first harvest once development is completed in 3 to 33 months.
- gren 12y agojust come to my kitchen garden.
- _-__--- 12y agoCan't wait for integration with taproot.js
- davidw 12y agoWe love carrots at 73 Prime Numbers!
- ddoolin 12y agoNow in JavaScript :)
- serve_yay 12y agoHate stuff like this
- netcan 12y agoNot to be pedantic, but it's hate stuff like that.
- golemotron 12y agoThere is nothing more HN than this thread.
- Blahah 12y agoparent might have been referring to their own comment
- serve_yay 12y agoNo, I was right the first time.
- ilghiro 12y agoLook's cool but I can't really see the difference between this and the market incumbents. What are you differentiators to: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Cabbage_and_cross_section_on_white.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Cabbage_a... or http://www.leekrecipes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/leeks-food.jpg http://www.leekrecipes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/leeks-food.j...
- colmvp 12y agoI feel like the color orange is an excellent differentiator as it's more warm and happy.
- bjz_ 12y agoOooh, this was just leeked: http://i.imgur.com/b6zPy73.jpg http://i.imgur.com/b6zPy73.jpg
- inthewoods 12y agoBoth of these supposed market incumbents lack the simple approach of Carrot. Cabbage requires significant preparation to be enjoyable. Carrot is easy to use and eat right away. Leek is really only enjoyable in cooked form, whereas Carrot is available in both raw and cooked form. Carrots also have far less fragmentation in shape and size - leaving aside the Carrot Mini which offers the same simplicity in a smaller form factor. This lack of fragmentation means that everyone can immediately recognize and use Carrot. It also means that children will immediately be able to recognize and use Carrot. Carrot - simply the best.
- yawz 12y agoIt would be easier to consume if the design were more modular...
- monk_e_boy 12y agoAnd tasted like apple. (OT: In our house we call them 'rubbish orange bananas')
- soapdog 12y agoThis is just a nitpick but this type of headline doesn't tell us anything about carrot or why should we care for its introduction. I love new stuff as much as the next person but can we we change the headline to something like "introducing carrot - an innovative nutrient carrying system for a new world"
- duiker101 12y agoIt would also be nice to have some examples of extended use or a demo to get a feeling of the product.
- smanuel 12y agoI would rather wait for v2 (http://introducingcarrotjuice.com/ http://introducingcarrotjuice.com/) Can't handle too much fiber.
- kylelibra 12y agoI've had access to the beta for a while now, I would definitely recommend using.
- securingsincity 12y agoi loved the code name for that version: carotene
- skygazer 12y agoI kept mine in my back pocket while at a wedding reception, last weekend, and when I finally pulled it out to use it, it had warped, and would no longer lay flat. While it still seemed completely usable, I'm definitely going to return it, right after I post to Youtube.
- publicfig 12y agoBefore I sound too negative, I would like to say that it does look like a lot of hard work went into this, and I really do think it’s a good product. Unfortunately, it seems like another solution looking for a problems. From what I can tell, this product has little to no compatibility with Cakes and Deserts. At Small Startup – which this entire comment was written to promote – we heavily utilize Cakes and Deserts and can’t really imagine releasing a product in 2014 under the food category that doesn’t fully integrate with Cakes and Deserts. Is there any hope for updating compatibility in future releases or is this just another product that doesn’t even look at market needs before releasing a product? EDIT: I was able to find a tutorial online for integrating Carrot with Cakes and Deserts, which may work until a better solution is found:http://www.chow.com/recipes/21792-moist-carrot-cake-recipe http://www.chow.com/recipes/21792-moist-carrot-cake-recipe . I would still like compatibility with some specific use cases like Scones and Tiramisu.
- golemotron 12y agoThose features will be in the beta - it's code-named Carotene.
- cfontes 12y agoCome on.... Carrot integrates beautifully with Cake there is even a Chef recipe for it (AHA!!!) ! It's my favorite bundle when working on Breakfast module.
- stronglikedan 12y agoAnd some good glazed baby carrots might as well be a dessert.
- danso 12y agoJesus, what's wrong with people today? Whatever happened with "do one thing and do it well"? Not everything new has to be like the Golden Corral buffet
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- kartikkumar 12y agoNow that was a complete waste of 60 seconds. Was that supposed to be funny? I get the feeling I've been left out of an inside joke.
- eddieroger 12y agoThere's no joke to be left out of. The community sometimes just blows off steam by mocking itself. I don't particularly care for it, but usually it goes nearly as quickly as it comes.
- kartikkumar 12y agoGotcha, thanks. Shame you get downvoted without explanation around here for an honest opinion.
- swalsh 12y agoWhy not just eat a cucumber?
- bicx 12y agoBecause this isn't communist England. Geez.
- danso 12y agoWow, so much work was put into this product and the design, but the call to action is put at the very bottom. What a shame, did any A/B testing go into this?
- interdrift 12y agoNow with the new API codenamed EATME
- markng 12y agoNo sugary. Less food than a steak. Lame.
- washedup 12y agoNailed it. The happy/lame/sappy music with little chimes, fast paced rhythm, and soft strumming acoustic that can be heard in commercials like this has started to make me go insane.
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- midhir 12y agoPfff. I can make my own carrot FOR FREE by hacking a raised-bed and hooking it up to my local water provider using a polycarbonate pipe and standard spray head. Why would anyone need to BUY ONE?!
- underlines 12y agoDepends on the copyright laws in your country, and what will you do, if you grow too much of them at once? Sharing is prohibited in some areas! Be careful! Maybe someone should invent a subscription based carrot delivery service, or even a flatrate service for carrots, like spotify or netflix.
- corobo 12y agoHah! That's what that guy said about Dropbox! You're so naive!
- vicbrooker 12y agoHelp please! I followed some instructions so that Carrot would be compatible with Apple, but it's made it impossible to move without a Glass! I don't want to be sucked into relying on overpriced peripherals... How do I do a factory reset? http://www.purejuicing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/apple-carrot-juice.jpg http://www.purejuicing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/apple-...
- underlines 12y agoMashups are possible, if you put your apple and carrot device in a mixing device it can probably made compatible in a liquid form...
- charlie_vill 12y agoQuestion is: will it blend? Or rather, will it bend?
- fla 12y agoHow does it compare to Apple ?
- qboxio 12y agoMaking the world a better place... with extensible and reusable nutrient delivery systems. Currently in beta (carotene).
- cpursley 12y agoSpeaking of Carrot, here's a site for those DIY folks who want to hack on their own open-source carrots. https://openfarm.cc/ https://openfarm.cc/ https://github.com/FarmBot/OpenFarm https://github.com/FarmBot/OpenFarm
- juliangindi 12y agoThis joke has been beaten to death, and than tortured for a bit.
- vojant 12y agoAny idea how to build this using Raspberry PI or Arduino?
- richoakley 12y agoIt looks like you've built your landing page in PHP, which is renowned for its scaling and security problems. I'd highly recommend looking into something like Scala or Lisp if you want your unlaunched product to have any chance in scaling to the millions of users you probably won't get.
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- Garbage 12y agoI don't know if you have tried PHP recently, but with the frameworks like Symfony2, it's much more robust and feels natural to code into. I think you should give it another try. :)
- panopticon 12y agoCan't tell if continuing joke or went over your head...
- waitur 12y agolol, just like all those product introduction out there.....
- teebot 12y agoI'm just not sure about the form factor. Carrot is probably a bit too big for my hands and Carrot mini won't be released before 2015 so I'll skip on Carrot for now.
- quarterto 12y agoI have a few qualms with this food: 1. For a gardener, you can already grow such a vegetable yourself quite trivially by getting seeds, planting it locally with compost, and then using water and potash on the planted seeds. 2. It doesn't actually replace a potato. Most people I know add flour or bread to be able to make stews, but they still carry a potato in case there are thickening problems. This does not solve the thickening issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
- quarterto 12y agoAlternatively: No wireless. Less starch than a potato. Lame.
- aarondf 12y agoIs this even open source?
- wil421 12y agoHow does Carrot prevent against Rabbit attacks?
- underlines 12y agoInstall a wall of fire between your garden and the outer world... Or use an apple, people say rabbits don't attack apples...
- lelf 12y agoOn a serious note, this one is actually useful at least.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoNice idea. I would pay you money if you made a version I could grow in my own garden. I don't want my food growing on someone else's land. I value my privacy enough that I would pay you for this. I don't want it growing on your land and then all of a sudden Google acquires you, shuts you down, and I never have a carrot again!
- sdegutis 12y agoThis one little page pretty much sums up all that's wrong with startup culture and silicon valley in general.
- juanuys 12y agoBeware of cheap imitations: almost no vitamin A.
- ende42 12y agoTwo years ago I implemented something different, but in green: https://github.com/niko/green https://github.com/niko/green I had a juice version in the pipe but I didn't like that I had to use yellow for that. It's hard to use yellow once you get used to green. But I'm really interested in orange now so I might give carrot a try.
- alexhektor 12y agoGreat product, great design. But how will you pivot if Apple enters this market? I'm pretty sure their design and taste should be sweeter than yours. How do you intend to compete?
- awwstn 12y agoCompliments on the thing as a whole, but one thing stuck out to me (negatively). When I read about vegetables and interaction and saw the screenshot of how interfaces haven't changed much, I got rather excited about the idea of a vegetable that truly tried to change the way we process nutrients. Instead, it seems Carrot mostly focused on the stuff surrounding vegetables. Which is a noble goal, but not what I was hoping/wishing for. I'd like to see someone reinvent vegetables, or update them for wearable interfaces. In the same way that the mouse greatly changed the way we work on 'normal' computers, surely Carrot should give us similar new advantages. I've been following a number of projects that try to do this, but they are hyper-focused on just that nutrient-input part. I'd love to see the best ideas from those experiments find their way into Carrot. (This is just a general observation, not an attack on Carrot. I can understand that you have chosen a specific focus that doesn't happen to be what I care about.)
- jlas 12y agoHere's another fun satirical site: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/ http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
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- nine_k 12y agoDevices like this, nice, sleek and integrated, are, as usual, not very hackable. Try getting it to change colors, for instance. (Though I did see yellow and purple prototypes, not yet on the site.) On the other hand, the device has an unexpected, but well-documented and very cool ability to run genetic algorithms! It's ridiculously slow, like 1-3 iterations a year (!), but you can run great many in parallel, since the device is so inexpensive — and, you know, sun-powered, so you don't pay for running it at all. Beats your server farm hands down.
- robinhoodexe 12y agoAwesome, although the font, in my opinion, should be sans-serif, preferebly something like Helvetica, to be maximum web 3.0 responsive design javascript framework startup like.
- Xeoncross 12y agoDarn. I just renewed my 2 year contract with an apple.
- yukifu19 12y agoThis is one of the best things I have seen in a while. Just when I'm hitting my head against a wall giving my pitch to investor after investor each day, answering the same questions...here comes carrot to rejuvenate me. With vitamins. And comedy gold.
- GoldenHomer 12y agoWasn't there something similar that came out in 2012 called Celery? It seems to me Carrot is a little late to the game. Either way, please shut up and take my money.
- notacoward 12y agoIt's orange? Pssht. That was last year's color.
- bgdnpn 12y agoI can only offer $3.7 billion for this startup. Can we reach an agreement?
- pshinghal 12y agoI don't know if they've updated it lately, but I'm using an old version of Carrot and it's extremely buggy.
- ArekDymalski 12y agoFrom the enterprise perspective this is a very dangerous product as it doesn't seem to have any security mechanisms. How can I prevent others from unauthorized access to my carrot?