I was recruited to a company maybe 6 years ago which did something similar to this site. For the life of me I couldn't understand what the business model was. Thankfully I didn't accept their offer and I haven't heard of them since.
- metaverse
- creator marketplace and consumer flywheel
- environment for learning agents, "we'll be first to AGI", "there's no better way to deploy a learning agent than a game" (so many game AI companies are doing this)
Then they'll raise $20M from a16z or someone.
I'm only being half sarcastic here, because I do see a way in which they could execute on that plan and build value. But it's also humorous to poke a little fun, because there is so much irony in the world around us right now.
Platforms like VRChat and Roblox are no joke though. It'll be hard for these folks to match that level of success, but I wish them luck nonetheless.
Edit: nailed it. They raised $10M, and I knew it would be a fit for a16z.
Source?
And I see this story, and these guys get 10 million dollars to make... some pixel art things that run in a browser and do... something, whatever...
$10M.
I think I might go jump off a bridge.
Investment isn’t based on technical merit or impact, it’s based on ROI. They might overlap sometimes but they are not the same thing.
I’m pretty sure rooms.xyz will not have significantly more ROI than green-tech hardware R&D.
The primary reason here is a16z idiocy.