[jfoster]

We'll never get cool things if we automatically dismiss anything cool as vaporware and refuse to engage with it.

Granted, sometimes projects like this won't eventuate, but I'd rather be optimistic and get disappointed occasionally rather than cynical and always feel negative about cool new stuff.

[antonioevans]

Yeah and more crap like Yo! and Make a Potato Salad kickstarters will get funded by people who have 20 bucks to waste. I am not hating on the idea because this isn't new at all. Spend 15 minutes on Alibaba and you'll see most of what most hardware kickstarters are sourcing their stuff. .. And yeah I watched the slickly edited video, but they aren't getting my money.

Also this has nothing to do with optimism vs pessimism, it's that stuff like this shouldn't be on hackerne,ws unless they really are hacking something/creating something/showing something innovative (semi innovative works also).

[jfoster]

Vaporware is stuff that nobody can get. Alibaba hardware is stuff that anyone can get. It can't be both.

[narwally]

Yeah, eventually something like this will solve a particular pain point for a subset of people. If this is supposed to just be a recreational thing, then I don't see the advantages it offers over stakes, bikes, scooters, etc.. But as the tech progresses then one day we might find something like this pop up again that is a valuable solution to some legitimate problems.