LincolnSixEcho
Member
Dang,where am I go get more DRM juice for my new paperweight?
Bwahahaha
Bwahahaha
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Juicero (makers of the $400 non-juicer) is shutting down
- Thread starter Zombie James
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hydrophilic attack
Member
how does drm juice even work
why
why
DeviantBoi
Member
Millennials killing another business.
When will it end?!?!
When will it end?!?!
Astral Dog
Member
It was $600 the first year 💵
GameAddict411
Member
It's not over engineered. It's a scam.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I lost it at the 5 minute mark, "This is fucking disgusting..."
HellforLeather
Member
Whoever wrote that needs to be fired.
Zombie James
Banned
It's both.
Ville Pukema
Member
Walter White Walker
Member
Probably not, though, if it was still $5-7 a glass. Although people do pay exorbitant amounts of money for things at Whole Foods so what do I know.
That would have been amazing tho.
Ovek
7Member7
It wasn't and they lost money on every one sold apparently. I bet the idea was to make the money back on the proprietary DRM juice bags (lol) that they sold to the more money than sense tits that work at Apple or Google.
The long term goal will have been the same as every other tech startup nowadays, simply to get bought out by a bigger shark. The investors get richer and the owners become investors and the cycle continues.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Why would anyone buy the company if they're shutting down and offering refunds?
Neverwinter27
Member
No don't stop please come back
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
uhhhh this is a valid question.
I got one of these things as a gift. does that mean this shit is bricked lol
It was originally $700 and got a price cut to 'just' $400
I love how much he geeks out at each part being so fucking we made, he makes it all sound so damn beautiful in one way, but at the same time all it does is squeeze juice from a bag.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Is this what the dotcom bubble was like in the late 90s. Every shitty company being overvalued cause they promised to change the world?
ImaLemming
Member
They're offering refunds, but if you got it as a gift, I don't know if you can get one.
It'd be nice if they at least released a firmware upgrade that let the machine smash any bags you wanted with it.
Aye! Aye! Aye! OK!
Quarter cup, half a cup, whole cup, aye!
Quarter pound, half a pound, whole pound, OK!
Juice man and Gucci Mane squeeze the juice, aye!
newtypepilot
Member
they'll find another way to sell scam people with another useless product.
Dash_Riprock
Member
This is fucking tame compared to the money that was being farted around back then. I seem to recall one Dot Com spent like $500 million on advertising and marketing without even selling a single product yet.
newtypepilot
Member
amazing tear down video.
I swear venture capitalists that fund stuff like this are among the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
This is amazing.
When he opens it up. "This is pornographically beautiful!"
It's an over-engineered piece of shit, but the over-engineering really is something to see.
This is amazing.
When he opens it up. "This is pornographically beautiful!"
It's an over-engineered piece of shit, but the over-engineering really is something to see.
Thanks for the new youtube channel.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
When dumb people are too smart to buy your scam product
Looks over designed as hell. What were they thinking?
TheChewyWaffles
Member
I've never heard of this AvE dude, but he is a wizard.
Internals seem to look like the product initially was to crush real fruit products for juice. Some high quality engineered metal parts in there.
Looks like marketing department or question regarding "How do we make money?" took over the project. Customers most likely would choose blenders over this overly expensive tool. Then the buzz trend of monthly subscriptions would sustain the company had not the media not reported the flaw in the subscription model.
You're assuming that they actually sold any. That's a pretty big assumption.
I Stalk Alone
Member
They tried to make the scam into a more affordable scam? How nice of them. Pity they couldnt succeed
ChainedMaster
Banned
Assets, IP, workforce, etc...
Hierophant
Banned
Now what will I use to point to how fundamentally stupid silicon Valley startups are
Anyone wanna give me the inside scoop on the next Juicero?
Anyone wanna give me the inside scoop on the next Juicero?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Designing things like this is literally my job. I am actively angry at the amount of design work that was put into this
You know what? I am now actually interested in collecting one of those if I can cop it for nearly nothing. It tells a great story and the parts are pretty high quality.
Here's a further breakdown of its innards, construction, and manufacturing costs: https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50
opticalmace
Member
Truly the darkest timeline that we have to say this and not be joking. Imagine going back in time like 20 years and reading this. :lol
pretty done
Member
Only people with too much money bought them, so no loss.
This thing lasted longer than I expected tbh
Man with Knife
Member
Holy shit at that solid piece of machine tooled aluminum. He's right, that thing is fucking bullet proof.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
There was some kind of DRM on it. It scanned a QR code on the package and wouldn't squeeze without it or whatever.
There's no DRM that will keep your hands from working.