I made a coffee pot that spoke RFC 2324 because it was so silly it had to exist, and I think it was actually more useful than this thing. You had to go put the grounds and water in, then walk to your desk and run a scsh script to start it brewing, but at least you could use any coffee grounds.
I... I can see the appeal, maybe, if you are super rich and don't mind paying for services like this, but the time to wash and clean a juicer is well worth it. I'd absolutely laugh or look down on anyone who used something like this because using a juicer was "just too hard". It's like those stupid little coffee cup things they are selling nowadays. Just learn to use a cheap coffee-maker and grind your own beans.Instead, the company, called Juicero, wants you to buy its prepackaged, pre-chopped produce, have it delivered to your home, and then insert its proprietary produce-packs into the juicer to create juice. This is supposed to be more convenient.
To be fair, those capsule coffee makers make real coffee, not instant coffee. I've never owned one, but my previous job had one, and it made pretty decent coffee! Certainly a lot better than instant, and much more consistent and convenient than drip coffee. You know for sure that nobody else made a weak ass pot of coffee.
That thing is designed to be sold to hipster coffee shop owners, though, so they can charge more for pour-overs. This particular juicing travesty is an end-user product with effectively no life in the B2B sphere because it's a single-supplier commodity device with a strangulated distribution chain. And it's not like "juice" is hard in the retail sphere. A couple of my favorite caters in Hollywood will put out a Rubbermaid table, set a $1000 industrial juicer on it and then surround it with cut fruit and keg cups. Takes 30 seconds, costs "fruit" plus a one-time investment in a Robot Coupe J80. I think Juicero shit the bed. I mean, this is some straight-up /r/wheredidthesodago bullshit.
Oh god damn it, if you hadn't said that I wouldn't have even considered the fact it's the 31st of March. I was wondering what the WiFi function was going to be as there was no mention in the article... god damn it. Oh well, time to check ThinkGeek! Edit: Now I've seen their website I have no idea what to think anymore. Perhaps I should just hibernate for a few days...
Nope. The Business Insider link is real, and they're on Crunchbase. BUT They haven't had any funding since Dec 23, 2014 and their product went live today. So right now, there are a few VC firms around Silicon Valley who are WTF-ing even harder then you are because they paid for this piece of shit. I think the author means "there were a lot of people willing to pay way too much for juice." OJ sales are at a ten-year low, Jamba Juice missed estimates (and 30% of its stock right now is held by short sellers - it's hated almost as much as SolarCity) and these fuckas just produced a product fifteen months after the last time anyone gave them any money.The thing is, I strongly suspect Juicero will succeed, at least for a time. Organic Avenue, which operated for 13 years before going bankrupt, proved that there are a lot of people willing to pay way too much for juice and buy into dubious juice-based health regimens.