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Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by cushychicken »

triangleman wrote: post #70
ThomPete wrote: post #57

It's very easy to get tied up in valuations, unicorns, growth metrics and living the life as a startups with a great idea but no way to monetize it until you get 500millioner users. But at the end of the day they most optimal recipe for success still is 1) Find a real problem 2) Build a solution 3) Start selling There are alternatives to growth-hacking and content marketing and what other tricks are out there. Just l…

While I agree with the spirit of your post, let us step back and think clearly about where your criticism lies. Think about what it means to "hack" on something. Today we often use the term to describe a programmer working feverishly on his software project "hacking away". But based on your use of the term ("growth-hacking") we can see that it can often be used in the sense of hacking a problem into something more ma…

Man, you completely missed the point of what OP was saying in your rush to talk semantics.

He was saying that this product showcases a lot of thoughtful development to solve a problem that a non-trivial number of people have that can't really be solved through marketing shortcuts. And I think we both know exactly the sort of marketing shortcuts he/she is talking about - the apptification of everything, the hype endemic in software product launches, the VC blogosphere. That sort of hack doesn't apply here at all. Taking a Segway as an inspiration or starting point for this product? Maybe that's the hacking you're trying to associate with by posting this. But that's not what he was talking about.

OP is saying what a breath of fresh air it is to see someone sink such time and effort into making a well designed solution to an actual problem, and that kind of effort creates marketability commensurate to the development.

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by david-given »

agumonkey wrote: post #97
paulsutter wrote: post #28

This looks like a huge improvement over a wheelchair (have you ever tried the joystick control on an electric wheelchair?). Way better mobility. And it looks cool. Completely the opposite feeling of watching someone on a Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.

It does avoid bearing the medical equipment tag, the old tech metal cruft, disabled .. none of that comes to mind when I saw the video. It might help everybody forget about the condition and start acting normal again. It feels slightly unsafe though, just a bit.

I did find myself wondering about whether it should have a seatbelt.

You'd probably need to ask a regular wheelchair user, though. Do wheelchair basketballers use seatbelts?

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by [deleted] »

bpodgursky wrote: post #84
JulianMorrison wrote: post #69

One downside I can see for this: it looks like, if the user had a seizure, it would be extremely dangerous. It would keep them in the seat but interpret their movements as erratic hard accelerations and sharp turns.

Ok... so are cars (in fact, they are much worse), but we survive somehow. I mean, I guess this is true, but being paralyzed usually does not mean you are unusually predisposed to seizures. This criticism kind of feels like hunting for problems.

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Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by agumonkey »

david-given wrote: post #102
agumonkey wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does avoid bearing the medical equipment tag, the old tech metal cruft, disabled .. none of that comes to mind when I saw the video. It might help everybody forget about the condition and start acting normal again. It feels slightly unsafe though, just a bit.

I did find myself wondering about whether it should have a seatbelt. You'd probably need to ask a regular wheelchair user, though. Do wheelchair basketballers use seatbelts?

I don't think they can generate even half the torque of this, and the balance point is different. Maybe something half way between a belt and nothing at all. Just enough to slow you down if case you're about to fly off.

Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by jessaustin »

randlet wrote: post #72
netcan wrote: post #68

Looks cool, but I don't know anything about this market so I can't really comment directly on utility or prospects. But, to take a tangent: I think there's a shift that hardware oriented entrepreneurs might mine for some ideas. Around web 2.0 time there was a shift where people got more comfortable with the internet. They used real names, and pictures without expecting this would inevitably lead to serial killers at…

As a hearing aid wearer, I can probably think of a couple of ways hearing aids could be used to improve hearing of non-impaired[1] but you definitely don't want just "broad spectrum amplification" (hearing every small click, clack & whir gets old fast). Think more along the lines of decrease of external noise in a cafe so you can focus on a conversation, a tunable amplification of quiet sounds, as replacements for bl…

I appreciate your healthy outlook toward your hearing loss. With my family background, it seems inevitable that my hearing will continue to get worse than it already is. I want to take your attitude as an inspiration rather than the less healthy attitudes that I often see.
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