Wakemate Blog - Final Wristbands

http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/08/10/final-wristbands-3/

by rodh257 • 16 years ago

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davidu2• 16 years ago

Stop giving me updates. Ship me my product.

You are terrible. Seriously.

I'm not entirely convinced I haven't been suckered into buying into some giant fraud and there is no product.

dcurtis• 16 years ago

Come on. Hardware is hard. They've clearly made a huge amount of progress recently, and I'm glad to see them update the blog. That doesn't excuse their pretty bad communication over the past few months, but they're a small startup and they're learning. They're improving. They're iterating.

If any group of people should be able to give a company like Wakemate some slack, it's HN.

stingraycharles• 16 years ago

"If any group of people should be able to give a company like Wakemate some slack, it's HN."

I'm really surprised by a lot of HN'ers reactions on this Wakemate thing indeed. What is it that makes many HN'ers so upset about this? What makes this so different than, for example, the Diaspora guys, who generally get sympathy from the HN community?

davidu2• 16 years ago

I gave these guys money based on a set of expectations. They haven't even come remotely close to meeting those expectations.

I think the reason I'm not being more vocal is because I feel bad for these guys and just assume they are in way over their head. I don't think they are really con artists. But, I'll sure feel dumb if that's what this turns out to be. Let's be honest, the pictures they are posting of the "new" product are wildly different from the pictures of what I bought.

jordyhoyt• 16 years ago

Whether or not they give updates is completely irrelevant to when they ship. Many customers asked for more regular updates, they are responding. Chill out.

rodh257• 16 years ago

yeah exactly, not long ago the only update anyone ever got was to tell them that their Wakemate was delayed longer. People complained, and the company improved their communication. I think its great, especially from a HN readers point of view, we get to see a little bit more about the process.

unwind• 16 years ago

You should buy a Pandora (http://open-pandora.org/), if you want more practice with these kinds of things.

Of course, now they're actually being manufactured, so it's a bit late for the personality-enhancement part of that plan. D'oh.

whatusername2• 16 years ago

I did notice that wakemate/paypal charged my credit card this week... I guess that means that you'd better be damn close to shipping these.

tdavis• 16 years ago

You were charged. That it was a negative amount is a worthwhile distinction.

http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/08/06/paypal-refunds-complete/

If that isn't the case, PayPal is stealing from you. Though we are pretty damn close, regardless.

whatusername2• 16 years ago

My apologies - I spoke in haste. Yes - I got my refund. I'd only glanced at my CC statement - and noticed wakemate in passing - and assumed it was a new charge.

(On a somewhat related note (and I'm not holding this against you at all) -- technically I'm down 30 cents on wakemate. Paypal initially charged me $5.61 AUD and then refunded my $5.31 AUD. I realise that it's $5 US both times - just thought it was worth mentioning)

redorb• 16 years ago

Please for the love of god update your homepage image; it still shows a product that is a magnitude of different than the shipping product.

pvg• 16 years ago

a magnitude of different

You probably meant something in English here.

jaredstenquist• 16 years ago

http://www.wakemate.com/tour/ is broken FYI - tried in Chrome and Firefox. There is no ability to move through the slides.

Besides that this looks like a great product.

huhtenberg• 16 years ago

It has a simplicity of an Apple product, but not its polish. Yes, the wrinkles need fixin' to be perfect :)

clewiston• 16 years ago

i am sorry we are not as perfect as Apple. yet.

MoreMoschops• 16 years ago

I browsed through half-a-dozen pages, including "How it works" and "Product Tour" looking for the phone hardware and software requirements. No sign of them. I am not going to buy something without this information, and you have not made it easy to find.

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