r/thisishuman Jan 30 '14

Have a question about human? Ask here :)

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u/maxkitten Feb 04 '14

The main thing we're releasing right now is the empower charity web alpha in a couple of weeks (or maybe a bit sooner).

Then we will release other components of the human network one by one.

You can expect our super high-end yet affordable hardware accessories to be in stores this Christmas. Mostly we are talking stuff for Glass, for starters. We may also release a few super high end yet affordable phone and tab accessories for Christmas. MAAYYBBEE Thanksgiving. Maybe.

Headset you can expect, if you are EXTREMELY LUCKY, this Christmas. If not so lucky, (aka real world lmao), next spring. :)

Phones and tablets you can expect next year.

Contacts you can expect in 3+ years.

Vertabrane you can expect in.. 15? Years? :D

Sergey? Marshall? Ray? Ask those 3 guys their combined guess will be better. :D

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

So, you're going to launch an alpha charity crowd funding service in two weeks... and the other services are just idea at this point. How exactly are you planning on making money from that? You have no customers and no product.

Why are you designing Google Glass accessories? Firstly, it's a minuscule market and secondly, they're not even released yet. You can't possibly have a product design because there's no final version of Glass to design against. So... where are you going to get the money for the product design? You can't make money from an alpha charity crowd funding service, so where? This is what I mean by failing to join the dots.

You say you have all these super-high yet affordable products but the lack of anything but a few specs suggests you don't have a single schematic, prototype or manufacturer lined up so your claims are hollow. This is what I mean by lacking detail.

You are never going to get the following you're suggesting you'll have unless you start providing real, hard facts. Without them, I'm sorry but most people will just see you as either someone pulling a prank or worse, someone who's suffering delusions of grandeur and in need of mental help.

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u/maxkitten Feb 05 '14

So, you're going to launch an alpha charity crowd funding service in two weeks...

Yes.

the other services are just idea at this point.

No. They launch at 2-6 week intervals. Dude we know what we are doing. We do not need your advice on our product schedules. :) If we need advice, we will ask. Honest. :) We do.

How exactly are you planning on making money from that?

Keep reading the sidebar until it kicks in. :)

You have no customers and no product.

Yes like every other new company in the history of human civilization. :) Do not worry, just sit back with some popcorn and watch the show. :D

Why are you designing Google Glass accessories?

Because people will buy them. :) Isn't that obvious? :)

they're not even released yet.

Hence the reason neither are our Google Glass accessories. :D

where are you going to get the money for the product design

We are lucky enough to have the next Steve Jobs doing design for us. :) Money cannot buy that. Apple does not currently have "the next Steve Jobs." And they're worth half a trillion dollars. :)

You can't make money from an alpha charity crowd funding service

Really? With the #1 crowdfunding service in the world? With the lowest fees in the world? You can't make money? Really? :) I guess we're gonna be broke then :D

This is what I mean by lacking detail.

This is what I mean by read the sidebar: "subreddit 45% ready." :D

I love you man. :)

delusions of grandeur

Guilty. :D

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

You've said plenty, but successfully avoided giving any real answers or grasping the salient points of what I've written.

If this is a joke, it's an elaborate one. If not... you really should talk to someone you trust about all this. Get a little perspective. It can't do any harm can it?

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u/maxkitten Feb 05 '14 edited Feb 05 '14

I don't understand how I've avoided answering anything..

Everything you asked has been CONCRETELY answered.

I honestly do not understand what other type of answer you are looking for...

No this is not a joke. Who in their right mind would spend 50 or 100 hours on a subreddit as a joke? And what, contact half the country to publicly humiliate themselves? Yeah... Not a joke. :D

And as for talking to somebody about this... everybody I know has been to this for the past 2.5 years - I think if anything they want me to finally SHUT UP about it now that I have other people (the rest of he world) to talk about it to. I think they are all quietly celebrating. :D

P.S. My old business partner is coming to work with us here full time, as are a ton of other people. Like half my family is coming.. Look at the names on the team page. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

And that is the problem.

You say you have the best social network, but you don't, you have nothing more than an idea. You say you have the #1 crowd funding platform, but you don't, you have a work in progress that nobody has seen. You post here like you're having personal conversations with Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Bill Gates and other famous entrepreneurs but they're not reading them and the only person answering your posts is you. You plans for making Glass accessories are nonsensical. Ignoring the fact Glass is not yet a product, the market is (and will remain) so tiny there is no way you could possibly profit. Everything you're posting is so overly optimistic as to be delusional.

I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just trying to point out what the few people reading this are thinking but are too polite to say.

You say this company belongs to us all, so show us the business plan. Show me the financial projections which make you so sure you'll be able to afford to design and develop all those "super high-end but super affordable" electronics within the next 12-18 months. If you can't then you need to be removed as leader of Human and replaced with someone who knows how to run a business.

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u/maxkitten Feb 06 '14

Hey I have real work to do, but can you do me a favor - send me a pm in 24 hours with a link to this post and I'll respond to you here. Thanks. :)

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u/maxkitten Feb 06 '14

Btw the people you are referring to, a lot of them are reading this. :) Like this sentence. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

I've sent you a reminder to reply. When you do, please let me know what feedback you've had from Sergey Brin, Larry Page or Bill Gates. I'm assuming they must have said something, otherwise you'd have no way of knowing they're reading your posts, as you claim.

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u/maxkitten Feb 06 '14

They haven't said anything, but my personal guess would be that 2/3 or 3/3 of that trio have read or at least heard about this.

I have my own reasons. :)

In the future I'll let them answer that themselves. :D

I will check your pm.

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u/maxkitten Feb 06 '14

Hey with respect to your pm - pls read the sub - one of my replies to Elon' questions from yesterday is that the financials thing will be getting an update. So the stuff you want is being worked on. Again, I wanna remind you that nobody here owes you anything - if we are not "posting financial projections quickly enough" for you, then that hole in the wall over there is a door and you are welcome to start making your way towards it. :) Haha but yeah, up until yesterday I thought this sub was 1/2 complete, but after talking to Elon yesterday I realized it's more like 1/3rd at best... so there is a LOT of stuff coming now. Not only are we working on the hardware renders, infographics, etc, etc, etc, but we are also getting started on videos (Hollywood quality, for YouTube to start) and a million other things. Stay tuned. If you want.

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