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> What makes our product offering unique is that our apps can be built without coding Oooh... that's going to be a tough argument to sell to people.
Just ... not ... gonna ... happen (for any reasonable definition of "app").
“We have about five years of money in the bank, so now it doesn’t matter what happens in the market” First time I heard of 5 years runway....
I am quite baffled by all this. I heard of Famo.us, but didn't give it more than 1 thought. I thought it was just another framework, I would have never thought that they had employees, let alone that many and raising that much money. I watched the video in the article, and I can't believe that people are throwing money at someone with a pitch like that. I feel like everything about Famo.us is all the wrong things tha…
When they launched, though, it was just lackluster and had some major rendering bugs. It felt like the air got let out of the tires and everybody just moved on. So looking at it now, it's definitely difficult to see what all the hype was about.
Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4
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> Perhaps more importantly, Apple and Google aren't particularly interested in cross-platform technology either. Ah, the problem with generalizations about large companies. http://flutter.io/ , by Google.
The fact that flutter exists doesn't really change my view that I don't believe that Google is pushing it. Flutter to me seems much more of a "Hey, let's get some brilliant people at Google on a fun, hard project" than something Google sees as the future. I agree, though, that Google has somewhat more of an incentive to build stuff cross platform than Apple does. Google wants you to access their services from any dev…
They don't care if you are on Android or on mobile web, so cannibalization here isn't an issue; both lead to Google searches.
How did they get a hold of famous.org? Should startups be spending money on domains like that?
The domain has a value of ~$25,000 (-99.8% return on investment).
The javascript framework has a value of $0 (-100% return on investment).
Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps. Yikes. If ever I wanted a paragraph printed on a poster to scare me into working ha…
Maybe their next pivot will be to print-on-demand motivational posters.
I got reprimanded by HR after they found this poster I put up in one of the interview rooms: http://i.imgur.com/dzk0YcA.jpg
HR was interviewing someone who was seeking H1-B and noticed this poster hanging on the wall during the interview...
I will never understand how startups like this get money with such incompetent leadership. Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4
I will never understand how startups like this get money with such incompetent leadership. Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4
