• heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I saw the Marques Brownlee review of this and I have no idea why they actually released it to market? It looked so wildly undercooked.

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    1 month ago

    They could pivot from their fancy-futurism hand-gesture nonsense, and actually work on a device for disabled folks. Let the mobile device take all that load, and the pin do the streaming and haptic stuff. People who come under the spectrum of blindness will appreciate this, but well, fuck these founders for being so obtuse.

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    1 month ago

    The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.

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      1 month ago

      You’re literally describing venture exit. Once the asset reaches the desired value, you sell your part and hop. Rinse repeat.

      Obviously not the case for most of us wagoids

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      get millions in VC for some reason

      This is the part I don’t understand. Pretty much everyone agreed these would be terrible products and yet these companies somehow drum up tens of millions of dollars in investments. How?