Watch the Jupe + YC CEOs video on the site and tell me it’s not a parody. Dude dressed like a guru talking about a glamping tent like it’s as ground breaking as a Tesla and will solve world housing. Wild.
You took the words from my mouth :) Selling tents to clueless SV customers with disposable cash, with a not-so-veiled promise they can rent them out on Airbnb.
It's the lime scooters of "housing": no permits, no safety, lawless, convenient, short-sighted.
The guru guy, and his tasteless leveraging of someone's personal tragedy to his own grift is incredibly out of touch – provided even that is not made up.
Risking sounding like Mr. Wonderful: I can't tell if it's aspirational, pre-product marketing or a parody. If it wasn't a joke, then they've just reinvented the travel trailer without the convenience or the trailer. My conclusion then is that it's an elaborate trolling.
> There are already better "hexayurt" designs for BM better-designed to block/reflect all sunlight, made with foilized foam boards.
Have you ever actually occupied a hexayurt throughout a full summer day at burning man?
My limited experience was that the typical one as executed @BM is just a dark, sweaty, oven. Excellent insulation by itself is a trap. Once you insulate a space with polyiso, you need good ventilation and heat removal. It's not really a good match for something so ad-hoc.
A hexayurt with a standard window air conditioner powered by a generator is glorious. Ours was tall enough to stand in and also had designer wallpaper. A 12V-powered filtered ventilation system meant the AC didn't need to be turned on until close to noon.
Negative, but they appear popular. My guess is that they buy you a few extra hours of coolness in the morning if you open/close openings at the right time. Obvs you don't want to be in a hermetically sealed box ever.
The number of times they referred to the “experience” as “crazy” or “insane”. The interviewer chucking in dundrearyisms (OK, maybe just situational code-switching) like “crib” and “right on, right on”, and “mama taught me right”.
Parody of summat, but I’m afeared of what. Something from an AI marketing department this way comes.
It's the lime scooters of "housing": no permits, no safety, lawless, convenient, short-sighted.
The guru guy, and his tasteless leveraging of someone's personal tragedy to his own grift is incredibly out of touch – provided even that is not made up.