Actually, if you look at the Hue Tap, it could perhaps work on a similar battery-less fashion. Also, if it's only transmitting (presumably via Wifi) when the button is pushed, the battery could last a fairly long time.
Hell, it could even automatically send you a new one when it detects it's battery is getting low.
Perhaps, but you also have time to prepare for the questions you'll get from the client, who's most likely purchasing something that you've done for the past X months/years. A technical interview requires perfection (or close to it) the first day you see the problem.
Actually, it's been a struggle for me. I've gone through two co-founders, who, in their own ways, just didn't work out. Who knows, maybe it's me. All I DO know is that my customers were starting to be affected by it, so I had to do something.
The entire reason for this acquisition was for the customers. They need someone who can take care of them like they deserve.
Hey, I'm Miles Smith, the Founder of MyRedis. I sent the email this morning and didn't read it through the eyes of my customers. I take ownership of that. We have updated our website, and sent a followup email to all customers, to clarify the availability of customer data.
All customer instances and data will be fully online and operational until at least July 30th. Furthermore, I will be storing an archive of all customer data for an additional 90 days, just in case someone missed something.
I will be available to help all customers who would like assistance in migrating.
I hate to add another nail to the name coffin, but I instantly thought this was regarding the ruby unicorn web server. I continued to think this until I came back to the comments to verify.
Your pricing is what failed it for me. I can get a 512MB VPS from DigitalOcean for $5/month.
I love this idea, though. I just feel that your approach of giving a full VPS is a bad idea. People who want a full VPS will buy a full VPS for much cheaper than the 20GBP you're offering it for.
What you need to do is multi-tenant your hosts, and isolate them from each other. Then you'll get costs savings that you can pass on to your customer; which will put you in line competitively with the likes of HipChat and Campfire.
I firmly believe that art is subjective. However, I also think that art should be a communication of a thought to others through a non-standard medium.
The only thing that was communicated during this process was a loud, unsurprised sigh when nothing came to fruition, as many had predicted.
Remember folks, There is no better way to over power a trickle of doubt than a flood of naked truth.
Don't worry, I'm probably just provoking a response from you, but to be sure, you can send me $1,000 and I promise I won't murder you, if I was going to.
We're just starting out, and would really like input from the HN community, so please feel free to ask questions or post comments. We'll try and answer them all!
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I really hate to play the douchebag card here, but the US DOES have several very good reasons to think it's the center of the tech world. Just don't make me start naming names...
