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> Sidekick is a new hardware device […] So your "new hardware device" is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019) with a stand, isn't it? What's your motivation to offer hardware instead of selling the Android app separately as well, so customers could use it without the hassle of getting hardware shipped?
"New Hardware Device" Looks like a run of the mill tablet to me.
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You can dream up all of these scenarios. But if you have a healthy business then a small number of people scamming you for Galaxy Tab's doesn't kill it.
Well, of course, that's the case for big corpo; but being a small startup with _limited_ budget, I think the bill can scale up pretty quickly. Hopefully not, though, I truly like the product.
The only question I have is how well it scales. The writeup above keeps talking about a “room” but the website features only person-to-person with the exception of the illustration of muting which shows the guitarist and hand-clapper as two ‘windows’. So two people cuts the 1080p (pretty low res) screen in half. What about 10 people, or 25? The answer is not in your FAQ: Q. How many Sidekicks can be connected on a te…
That's great feedback. Honestly, we haven't set up a team larger than 5 at this point. However, I also believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people who you actually work really closely with. These units are probably the right grouping for who is in one room. There is no actual max number, but I do think the design and the use case would fall apart right now. But there's some things we're thinking about like separ…
However, I'm would not pay an extra $25/month (or worse, $50) on top of my Zoom and Slack (or Teams) subscriptions because of a short coming of the number of screens one has or how Zoom works by default for the "always on" use case. Based on other comments, it seems like others take issue with the cost and sell that's happening here.
A company owned always on video and listening device in my home? How about not.
We totally agree that this would be terrible - any company listening to their employees goes against the mission of the company. We built Sidekick for the subset of teams that actually want to feel like they're in the same room. They actually want to be on camera so they can turn to their teammates and talk.
I sincerely wish you luck on this. I suspect I won't be using this, but that's more of an issue of workflow, as opposed to a judgement of the device. I don't like being interrupted while I work. I don't run Slack continuously, like many do. Also I'm a hired gun. I don't have a constant gig, and 90% of my work is alone. I think a device approach is reasonable. People like a device. They tend to not like a bunch of dev…
I feel differently - I feel like this wouldn't work for some that I know, not because they aren't fans of the always-on Zoom meeting, but because they don't have space on their desk for another accessory.
You are so preoccupied with whether or not you could [found a unicorn off the back of Covid], you didn't stop to think if you should. To further elaborate: What is one of the only benefits to the pandemic? Remote work. Who wants to come in and ruin it? Sidekick. Thanks, I hate it. I truly do. I only have to imagine the god awful dashboard you'll inevitably offer (product managers gonna productize) and the dystopian K…
There was just a criticism of YC earlier this week about YC spinning out SaaS products for startup founders, and then this comes along right on cue. This reads like a solution looking for a problem. I have a screen. I have a camera. In fact I have two screens, three cameras, and four microphones on my desk right now. The hardware isn't an issue. But what really struck about this announcement was this passage: > We ta…