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Comment by MBCook | Hacker News Reader

If you bought one anytime after the initial reviews just what were you doing?

I just can’t imagine there was anyone who both knew it existed and didn’t know it was garbage.

The only reason I can see anyone having bought one at that point is because they wanted to own an interesting little failure in gadget history. And even then just buy one used, there was no point in spending $700.

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I recall seeing a glowing article in Axios about the product and I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar posts in other publications. I was pretty skeptical for obvious reasons and expect most people were, but some people will uncritically believe what they read, especially about the hot business topic of the moment.

Getting such articles written in the first place shows some level of business connections. I don't like that people will throw so much money away on hype, especially when so many useful products languish, but it's the world we live in.

Some people collect failures.

Maybe they can hack it to redirect the requests to some little server that can relay their questions to chatgpt. Might be better than Humanes original backend!

My thinking exactly. Would be a fun project.

the only question is if there were enough sold to build a community like the spotify carthing, which now sell on Ebay for more than their original msrp (not inflation adjusted)

https://github.com/ItsRiprod/DeskThing

Yep. I mentioned that. And that’s a totally valid reason.

But you knew it was a failure at that point, that’s why you were buying it. You wouldn’t have been expecting it to be a good product for the next couple of years. Otherwise you wouldn’t have been interested.

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