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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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David may have won the race, but I have the first sneer!
Parents weep because making good products is insufficiently profitable.
I'm sorry but did the company not have anyone in their org who has had kids???
Bassinets are, as mentioned, used for 5-6 months. Reselling expensive baby gear that's only used for the first months of infancy is very common. Established companies, like those making baby carriages or car seats, know this and make their money upfront at purchase time, ~~preying on~~relying on ~~baby-brained~~doting parents with more money than sense to buy the latest and greatest.
The people designing this product and/or their financiers should be ashamed of themselves.
Or they could have open-sourced the protocol and relied on dudes like this one to keep it going:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285690
A friend of mine recently had a kid and gave the snoo a good review. If it’s really that good a product, it should be nationalised in the name of public health.
Apparently that's what the company wants too.
Although putting your progeny into a device named for a Reddit avatar is questionable behavior.
Oh for real? A company that wants to yeet itself into the arms of the government? Big if true.
Yes the name sucks. Considering the gamut of cringe reddit exhibitionism that’s out there, this is a probably within a few notches of all the narwhal stuff.