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by TruthWillHurt 981 days ago
Stop. This is not a valid startup and a waste of your time.

I say this with a heavy heart as I know you're passionate, but numerous failed startups of my own tought me to be critical in thinking.

What is you're "secret sauce"? How hard is it to replicate/exceed your efforts? I'm afraid the answers are "we put a lot of engineering work into it" and "not much, as we're just two guys and the army/google/fb have hundreds of engineers", and you're limited by physics. It's not like you invented new super-light batteries, did you?

I'm afraid this will likely be a waste of your time. You'll have fun, learn a lot, and that can be a goal on its own, But don't take a mortage....

sorry..

2 comments

This is neither constructive nor actionable. Why is this not a valid business? They already have a functional prototype which is more than most young companies in this field manage, plus a clear path of where they want to be and who their customers are. So what exactly do you see as the problem?
How do you know? They may have a fine strategy here. In any case the world needs experts in these things so worst case it becomes a non unicorn business and makes a nice profit.