Pigeon as a Service – Send Messages by Carrier Pigeon
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#2It looks like these guys applied to YC 2 years ago.
http://blog.flypigeon.co/our-application-to-y-combinators-w1...
Is this still being worked on and planning to actually release?
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#3Wat.
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#4It looks like these guys applied to YC 2 years ago. http://blog.flypigeon.co/our-application-to-y-combinators-w1... Is this still being worked on and planning to actually release?
Their fleet hasn't changed in 2 years (I remember seeing them back then). Should we interpret this negatively (no growth in headcount!) or positively (no turnover!)?
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#5Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?
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#6Well, its certainly a clever work around, Are they also their own VPN though? How do we know we won't get hit by a man in the middle attack?
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#7Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?
For real, I read everything I could on their site. They do mention living birds, I don't know why I'm still sceptical...
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#8Wait... Is it April's Fools already?
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#9Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?
I don't see any way this could be real, personally. As a previous owner of pigeons, they don't generally fly to random places. You release them somewhere and they fly to a place they KNOW (their coop generally). That in and of itself is amazing, but yeah, I don't know any way you'd be able to get them to fly random places... not to mention predatory birds and such.
Also, even if it was 'real' at some point, none of their stuff has been updated at all since 2015/2016.
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#10Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?
Since sending messages by homing pigeon requires taking a pigeon from location A and then releasing it with a message so it will fly back home to location A, I'm going to guess this isn't real. Unless every customer has to install a pigeon coop to raise birds that will head home to that location.