Ninja Blocks – What’s been happening, what’s happening next
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Ninja Blocks – What’s been happening, what’s happening next
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#2This reads like an onion article. This material is ripe for an episode of Silicon Valley.
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#3This reads like an onion article. This material is ripe for an episode of Silicon Valley.
Eh, it's just a fact that most startups fail. They tried, they ran out of money. Launching an IoT startup in 2012 in Australia was pretty ballsy. Total outside investment was only $1.7m over 3 years. Had they been overfunded like a stereotyped smoke-bloated Valley startup, maybe they would have had more runway.
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#4This reads like an onion article. This material is ripe for an episode of Silicon Valley.
What a mean thing to say about a shutdown post. Kicking people when they're down is not ok.
Please don't post mean comments to Hacker News.
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#5Although this is a shame it is yet another sign (for me) that the 'Internet of Things' is going to be DoA if we have to also rely on them for a backend cloud service. Most of these devices could be run in a completely decentralised way, such that if the company goes under, your device is hardly affected. e.g. I don't expect my light switches to stop working if the parent company gets acquired or shuts down.
There are real challenges to making distributed systems easier to build but I'm working with others on that c.f http://nymote.org and http://openmirage.org.
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#6Although this is a shame it is yet another sign (for me) that the 'Internet of Things' is going to be DoA if we have to also rely on them for a backend cloud service. Most of these devices could be run in a completely decentralised way, such that if the company goes under, your device is hardly affected. e.g. I don't expect my light switches to stop working if the parent company gets acquired or shuts down. There are…
Completely agree. But of course using a cloud service means no need to run a server on your own network/device or have to punch holes in your router to have the device accessible whilst you are not at home. Requiring either of those wouldn't help IoT adoption outside of enthusiasts.
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#7Although this is a shame it is yet another sign (for me) that the 'Internet of Things' is going to be DoA if we have to also rely on them for a backend cloud service. Most of these devices could be run in a completely decentralised way, such that if the company goes under, your device is hardly affected. e.g. I don't expect my light switches to stop working if the parent company gets acquired or shuts down. There are…
Completely agree. But of course using a cloud service means no need to run a server on your own network/device or have to punch holes in your router to have the device accessible whilst you are not at home. Requiring either of those wouldn't help IoT adoption outside of enthusiasts.
If you could give everyone their own 'personal cloud', without having them become sysadmins, then it's possible (of course, that's not easy but it's also why it's a valuable goal). The work under Nymote has a longer term vision so not ready to help people just yet -- some more detail at http://nymote.org/blog/2015/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
In this instance, I bet sandstorm.io could come up with a transition for Ninja Blocks users. I hope they think about it.
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#8so, snappy core didn't see the day?
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#9This sucks. I wanted to buy one because it seemed to do what I want, but I guess they have decided that its better to go under than sell me one.
All I was waiting for was better support for existing services and devices.
Anyone behind YC want to go buy them to keep them alive? Its a massive waste to let the company go under when they have customers wanting to buy their product.
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#10They are a great source of inspiration to me. This comes as a shock.