We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’s How It Went

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by archarios on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:44PM (#35297188)

https://www.thelightphone.com/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by paxys on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:54PM (#35297277)

Neat concept, but the website and the ad on it are so pretentious that I cannot take them seriously.

If you are selling a phone then show me the phone, its specs, what buttons it has, what ports it has, how long the battery lasts..

Instead we get "It's an experience we call going light." "We're humans, we are taking back our lives."

Give me a break.

I also don't see why anyone would pay $300+ for the same tech as a $30 prepaid flip phone you can get at any gas station.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by archarios on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:29AM (#35299389)

Well those flip phones aren't built with the same intentions. This phone was made to be distraction free as much as is practical. It restricts me in ways that I appreciate. I have zero ways to check email, reddit, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by dukeyukey on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:53PM (#35297273)

If it has WhatsApp I might just go for it. Nobody I know aside from _sometimes_ my 80-year-old grandmother uses SMS.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by archarios on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:30AM (#35299404)

No just SMS. I have been using WhatsApp desktop a lot more.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by vaastav on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:48PM (#35297220)

So basically a normal phone from the mid-00s

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by throwaway6734 on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:51PM (#35297249)

can you install signal?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by DANmode on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:20PM (#35297540)

This niche industry probably keeps wondering why nothing gets mainstream traction.

It's because they always miss one or two of the ten vital check boxes to get tech influencers (meaning, at the individual group level, more drilled down than "network effect") to jump on board.

One of the most vital check boxes: supporting whatever major method techies are currently using to avoid SMS/MMS.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:We Ran a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event in SF. Here’... by archarios on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:30AM (#35299407)

No but Signal has a desktop app..

[ Parent | on HN ]