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Re: Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works

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Post by blep_ »

martypitt wrote: post #4

That's some pretty hefty pricing - $1500 / year, on subscription ... so I don't actually "own" the vacuum. > Matic must be returned to us if you cancel your membership. In comparison, the robot vac my family have been using for the past 3 years works great, and is currently £200 on Amazon.

Oof, yeah. I'll pay $1500 for a nice thing, but I want the nice thing to be mine.

Re: Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works

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Post by bm3719 »

Is the mobile app required? If I'm already at home, why would I want to try to awkwardly navigate some 3D space with gestures on a tiny phone screen instead of using my desktop computer?

Required app installs make the world less accessible for us non-smartphone owners. At the very least, I'd want a IoT device to be optionally controllable via some kind of network API. That way I can unify its scheduling, programming, or whatever with the rest of my network computing resources, instead of having each device require a specific UI (or worse, its own app).

Re: Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works

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Post by mehuln »

Waterluvian wrote: post #17
mehuln wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Linux. ROS was too big for edge device processing.

ROS runs on Linux but I'm glad to hear you aren't shipping ROS in production.

Meant our own version of it. (But not ROS yes.)

Re: Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works

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Post by mehuln »

rspoerri wrote: post #9

125$ a month is way more i am willing to pay for a device that only cleans the floor. Thats the same price as a cleaner that works at least 3h a month, even in switzerland.

Thank you for the feedback. As we scale and further iterate, we hope to make it cheaper but hardware is hard, and building something new is expensive. At present, this is the model that allows us to stay in business. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works

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Post by mehuln »

blep_ wrote: post #12
martypitt wrote: post #4

That's some pretty hefty pricing - $1500 / year, on subscription ... so I don't actually "own" the vacuum. > Matic must be returned to us if you cancel your membership. In comparison, the robot vac my family have been using for the past 3 years works great, and is currently £200 on Amazon.

Oof, yeah. I'll pay $1500 for a nice thing, but I want the nice thing to be mine.

Thanks for the feedback.
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