I’m honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.
Every web outlet and influencer with more than 1000 followers bought one. But that’s all they’re ever going to sell.
I am also seeking a $1 billion buy out, to compensate for years of being underpaid! What a coincidence!
I’d buy you out but all I have is my 20 bucks from streaming music revenue and I’m going to spend that on beer.
If you even made one dollar off your own music, that’s fuckin cool. You earned that beer!
What’s your band called?
we’re called The Three Leonards. We do covers of pop songs in a pastiche of mid-1980’s Leonard Cohen, and yes it’s pretty different than music other people make today. Folks seem to like our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain quite a bit.
And yeah, we friggin’ earned that beer.
oh jesus, GOOD beer.
how anyone can drink sub-par beer is fucking beyond me. Drinking that stuff is just self-disrespect. I mean, I get it, but, just, no.
No one wants badly executed overheating slow Google assistant in a pointless little box. You already have a superior assistant in your pocket, reacting to your voice.
ask for 1B valuation with only ~7M in sales + ~240k/mo subscription revenue… hmmmm gonna be a no for me Dogg
The entire company was a pump and dump scheme. They’re gonna continue the pump until dump or bankruptcy.
So, if we do some sloppy rounding and say that the subscriptions make them 3 million a year . . . it’ll only take a bit more than 330 years for anyone buying Humane at the asking price to break even. My cat could figure out that wasn’t a good buy. (Of course, he’d prefer to invest in a tuna cannery . . .)
I’m sure there’s some MBA douche stupid enough to buy it.
I could see Apple buying it. The form factor makes sense, it’s the fact that it relies on AI and has its own cell connection are the main issues. If I could tap it and have Siri take dictation or take a picture of something to get more information it would be pretty neat.
Does it though? Having it pull down your shirt, having to rely on projecting a GUI on your hand, and being unable to hear it in loud environments all seem like pretty strong limitations of the form factor
I’d drop the projector interface, as cool as it is, since you have a phone for that. Maybe make it a pendant as well as a pin.
Apple’s got a lot of experience with using tiny speakers in loud places, so I bet they could figure out something maybe using directional microphones. Plus, again, you’ve got the phone so you can use the headphones.
