Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by _pius on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:52PM
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Until you have a product, there's nothing to talk about.
Yeah ... if you’re a marketer. People who actually make stuff are allowed to be excited about what they‘ve been working on in their garages and get to tell people more about it on their own schedules. They don’t owe you a feature comparison table every time they talk about their project.
In fact, they don’t owe you anything at all.
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Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by _pius on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:57PM
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As this announcement stands, I ... won't be using what they build.
Considering you literally haven’t been told — let alone allowed to use — what they’ve built, that sounds like a reasonable prior.
Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by malvosenior on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:03PM
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When I use products for business I expect some level of professionalism. It's way too easy to get hung out to dry with a critical piece of infrastructure and a dead company behind it. What they've done here with the vaporware and vanity posts is a classic misstep. It's not product or customer centered, the two things you absolutely must be to succeed in the enterprise world.
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Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by malvosenior on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:19PM
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This is literally the company blog that we're commenting on, not their personal blog. There's also 3 posts on the HN front page about this same topic and not one of them has any substance. So yes, I'm going to stick with my decades of experience and say they're producing red flags far faster than they're producing product.
Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by jiofih on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:26PM
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I’m sure your indignation can be better used somewhere else, other than commenting at length on something you’re not interested at all.
Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
by malvosenior on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:32PM
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I'm very interested in how our industry operates, how purchasing decisions are made and how investors vet opportunities. This intersects all of those areas, I think it's probably worth listening to what people are complaining about instead of just lashing out at them. This isn't just me complaining for no reason, there's a lot wrong with this announcement and it doesn't lead to a healthy industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
Until you have a product, there's nothing to talk about. Plenty of teams that seem good end up producing nothing. Announcements like this are a huge red flag to people who have seen this pattern many times over.