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Comment by foobarbecue | Hacker News Reader

I watched SkyDrone lie for a couple of years about how far song their supposed product was, so am kinda surprised to see them back in the limelight. Their website said "shipping next month" for over a year IIRC. I guess that sort of thing is the new normal...

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You are right, we indeed had some problems with our first product "Sky Drone FPV 1". Our new products are on stock and shipping though. Some background of what happened: https://www.skydrone.aero/blogs/news/the-sky-drone-journey-s...

Regarding the mistakes section, the technical side of that is something I've also experienced. When you're working with smartphone derived hardware and platforms you get a pretty sophisticated platform that can do a lot, but it also takes a lot of effort to get everything working and stable. And you'll need to know how to use everything from linux build tools to an oscilloscope. And then 18 months to 2 years later, a new generation or hardware is out so you get to start again :-/. Very labor intensive.

Thanks for owning up somewhat. At least you guys weren't quite as bad as OSRC...

Actually, does anyone have any evidence that skydrone has ever shipped anything?

There is currently a discussion including some of our customers on diydrones: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/sky-drone-fpv-2-now-avai...

Where are the customers? I've flipped through a few of the comment pages and didn't see any. I can't believe the diydrones.com interface is still so crappy all these years later! EDIT: I see Kevin Klemens on P3 and indeed he seems happy with the purchase. Congrats to SkyDrone on creating a real thing and selling it!

Looks like /u/skydrone might be able to share more info or shed some light?

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