These small little handy-dandy devices seem to get more and more popular. Anyone here chipped in for a JetKVM yet? Looks and sounds pretty solid. Are there a lot of you that have aquired a nanoKVM?

hmm they claim it’s open source but their repo:
This organization has no public repositories.

I’d advise against preordering unless you understand and you’re ok with taking the leap of faith that is tied with preorders~

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They state the code will be released after the first orders ship, which makes a certain kind of sense given this is a competitive space suddenly.

Though, I 10000% agree that there’s no reason to take a leap of faith when you can just wait like, uh, a month, and see what they do after release. It’s not like they won’t still be selling these or something.

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Hm, good of you to point out. I hope and assume they will post the code for this as soon as they launch this.

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People who received early units like reviewers already got access to all the repos, they said they’re preparing them for making them public and will do so before/just as first units start shipping

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Jeff Geerling and Craft Computing have recently reviewer these units on YouTube and they’re fairly optimistic about them.

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First project created, only want $50k, delivery is basically as soon as the project ends.

I would be surprised if the backers of this project receive anything.

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I’d be very surprised if this was some sort of sham. At least both Jeff Geerling and Raid Owl have posted about getting these; though like sent to them without them backing them directly.

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I’m not saying it’s a scam necessarily, but the schedule and budget seem optimistic enough to make me question wether the folks running it have any prior experience with manufacturing.

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BuildJet is a YCombinator backed startup with a ton of attention, and a million extra to burn on top of what investors have already given them. They would have to royally fuck this up at this point, most people would be so lucky to have the opportunity they have here.

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While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn’t necessarily immediately discount this one.

It’s probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling’s video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.

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In his article Jeff said:

They add a copper plating, and give it a polished gunmetal grey finish.

Apparently to do all that, they had to order a batch of 5,000 cases, which I hope means they also have a ton of these ready to go.

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Yes. I’m excited to try it out :)

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No way it will cost $ 69.

See for example PiKVM prices.

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NanoKVM is going for around $50

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yeah, but it’ll be hard to make those Y Combinator vultures rich at that price

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It is based on completely different hardware. A Raspberry Pi CPU is much more expensive than the CPU that is used here.

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