Snap Pixy drone product DEAD (millions lost)
Apparently Evan Spiegel is killing their Snap Lab drone project only 4 months after shipping. Is Snap killing the speculative experiments to buckle down during this recession. Seems odd to kill bets on the future in favor of things like a web app people didn’t ask for? (assumption) What do Snap folks think of the Labs team and in general was this a good move by Spiegel? Blind Tax: $418k (half paper)
Drone was POS, it is good that he resigned in the project use that money judiciously
the snap drone looked really cheap and flimsy imo... for $50 more, you can buy a dji mini SE
looks like i’ll have to step in
SnapLabs is different than the app side, and things like this are why there isn’t that much information shared from labs to snap proper. He had one question about it in a Q&A and someone immediately ran to the media to discredit the company. That’s my pessimistic view on this situation.
Pixy isn’t as shitty as people make it out to be, although the price tag is debatable. It’s mostly a toy for people with disposable income
No discount for employees
What's taking so long with the layoff? I am assuming nobody is working and everyone is Leetcoding?
It’s coming soon brother keep the door open.
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Listing paper tc should be banned
It is the right decision to cut pixy. I hope we cut specs too.
Wouldn’t that kill the Snap Lab team? Why kill spectacles?
Because certain people at Snap don’t think SnapLabs is a net positive for Snap overall because of the huge operating costs. It’ll be a constant battle while Labs is still developing products. The main org doesn’t have much insight into what goes on in Labs and that’s mostly because people in the main org were responsible for leaking proprietary information as we can see with Pixy.
While I have no insight into decision making, but it seems reasonable to cut expenses across the company. Probably cost of development is much higher than any sales of pixy, even with next couple generations ( if they planed for it) - so it seems right decision.
Has anyone tried the drone? It looks like it would’ve sold well for the influencer gen
I own one, and I really like it. However it does have some limitations that could be solved by a rev2. The article that the verge posted isn’t entirely correct either. It’s not canned yet.
It’s getting canned for sure