[tamizhar]

I apologize if this is a silly question, but what exactly does "computer company" mean? I read the link. I see "oxide computer" which makes me think, oh is this one of those newfangled oxide transistor but I clicked a few links like oxide computer principles of operation hoping to get an idea of what this is but instead I see some stuff about candor, empathy which is not what I thought principles meant in this context. I looked through the comments hoping to see someone explain it but no win there. Oh well. I'm sure someone will explain it.

[sdan]

This is a bad landing page.

1. Bad HN title (doesn't say anything about what they did about the computer they made)

2. Landing page image has some generic background and as far as I saw, no tangible product, other than some shelves of their latest workspace.

3. If they could just include some diagram here or there and put some bold text/say they're building AWS for people/startups, that'd be great and to the point

Not bashing them, but just some thoughts I had about their presentation.

Regardless, I'm extremely excited for what they're building. Been waiting for something like this to pop up.

[LeonM]

> Landing page image has some generic background and as far as I saw, no tangible product, other than some shelves of their latest workspace.

From Jessie's blog post [0] it looks like this is the actual garage where she supposedly started the company.

But I agree, there is absolute zero information on the product they are planning to build.

Probably because they are still working on fundraising.

[0] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/

[dmix]

It's amazing it has >400 upvotes at all.

[wyldfire]

I suspect upvoters have some context that's implied by knowing the domain of these founders or their previous work.

[herodotus]

Their main landing page:

"Oxide is building a new kind of server.

True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure."

[ryandrake]

They forgot to add “blockchain” and “machine learning” to complete their BINGO card. “cloud hyperscale innovations” is a good one, though—haven’t heard that one yet.

[cldellow]

"Hyperscaler" does have a meaning in the data centre world, and their use of it here speaks to the benefits they hope to deliver, so it's not 100% a marketing buzzword.

[infinitezest]

Add also "built with ️"

[bhaavan]

Their company mission is to kick-butt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[filereaper]

Its from a quote by Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun and is regarded as the final epitaph of Sun.

>Kick butt, have fun, don’t cheat, love our customers, change computing forever

[recursive]

Hell, I'll kick my own butt for a million less.

[OutsmartDan]

I am also quite confused. After looking at the homepage, I have no idea of what this company does.

[streetcat1]

It is a company whose product is hardware. For example: Sun, HP, Apple.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Looks like vaporware with nothing to distinguish themselves from the incumbents. Are they going to do anything special other than put their branding on Taiwanese boards?