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Introducing Carrot

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Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by panopticon »

Garbage wrote: post #50
richoakley wrote: post #43

It looks like you've built your landing page in PHP, which is renowned for its scaling and security problems. I'd highly recommend looking into something like Scala or Lisp if you want your unlaunched product to have any chance in scaling to the millions of users you probably won't get.

I don't know if you have tried PHP recently, but with the frameworks like Symfony2, it's much more robust and feels natural to code into. I think you should give it another try. :)

Can't tell if continuing joke or went over your head...

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by ende42 »

Two years ago I implemented something different, but in green: https://github.com/niko/green

I had a juice version in the pipe but I didn't like that I had to use yellow for that. It's hard to use yellow once you get used to green.

But I'm really interested in orange now so I might give carrot a try.

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by underlines »

midhir wrote: post #32

Pfff. I can make my own carrot FOR FREE by hacking a raised-bed and hooking it up to my local water provider using a polycarbonate pipe and standard spray head. Why would anyone need to BUY ONE?!

Depends on the copyright laws in your country, and what will you do, if you grow too much of them at once? Sharing is prohibited in some areas! Be careful!

Maybe someone should invent a subscription based carrot delivery service, or even a flatrate service for carrots, like spotify or netflix.

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by alexhektor »

Great product, great design. But how will you pivot if Apple enters this market? I'm pretty sure their design and taste should be sweeter than yours. How do you intend to compete?

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by corobo »

midhir wrote: post #32

Pfff. I can make my own carrot FOR FREE by hacking a raised-bed and hooking it up to my local water provider using a polycarbonate pipe and standard spray head. Why would anyone need to BUY ONE?!

Hah! That's what that guy said about Dropbox! You're so naive!

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by awwstn »

Compliments on the thing as a whole, but one thing stuck out to me (negatively).

When I read about vegetables and interaction and saw the screenshot of how interfaces haven't changed much, I got rather excited about the idea of a vegetable that truly tried to change the way we process nutrients. Instead, it seems Carrot mostly focused on the stuff surrounding vegetables. Which is a noble goal, but not what I was hoping/wishing for.

I'd like to see someone reinvent vegetables, or update them for wearable interfaces. In the same way that the mouse greatly changed the way we work on 'normal' computers, surely Carrot should give us similar new advantages. I've been following a number of projects that try to do this, but they are hyper-focused on just that nutrient-input part. I'd love to see the best ideas from those experiments find their way into Carrot.

(This is just a general observation, not an attack on Carrot. I can understand that you have chosen a specific focus that doesn't happen to be what I care about.)

Re: Introducing Carrot

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Post by underlines »

vicbrooker wrote: post #33

Help please! I followed some instructions so that Carrot would be compatible with Apple, but it's made it impossible to move without a Glass! I don't want to be sucked into relying on overpriced peripherals... How do I do a factory reset? http://www.purejuicing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/apple-...

Mashups are possible, if you put your apple and carrot device in a mixing device it can probably made compatible in a liquid form...
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