- Literally nobody but you (founder) cares about this "mission" to create a battery-backed distributed grid. Regular people don't live in silicon valley talking to VCs and software developers, they don't care about mission statements. If it's a consumer product, please drop the bullshit. (Is your website built this way because VCs told you to? If so, for god's sake please stop listening to them, they are not normal people)
- What exactly is the purpose of this battery? To provide power to a single 15/20A circuit, to power a fridge, tv and microwave for a day? So it's not going to help a multi-day outage. If I buy a dinky solar panel it's going to take forever to charge, assuming there's good weather on the day of the emergency. So really if I wanted to survive multi-day outage, I need a bigger battery. Which Jackery already sells, with solar panels, for cheaper than your unit, in a more portable, easier to move form.
- Why aren't the expansion pack and solar panel listed on the front page?? It's under tech specs?!?!? Is this a VC-focused B2B SaaS pitch panel, or a consumer product? If it's a consumer product, get rid of all these stupid I-have-to-scroll-for-a-week-to-find-information pages, and just show me what you want me to buy, right there at the top of the page, with pictures of happy people using the product in real life. That sells product to consumers. This silicon valley design dreck doesn't. (I just counted... there are 20 pages with virtually no information on the front page. Jesus christ.)
- Now if you had pitched this as a "save on your energy bill" solution, I can totally see buying one or more of these with a solar panel, if you have software that'll pull power from solar alone when the battery is full. Even if it didn't actually save me much money, I'm still stupid enough that I would buy it anyway. But you didn't pitch this... so I'm not buying it.
- What it actually seems most useful for in its current form is people in developing countries with inconsistent power and short brown-outs, but I don't see wide adoption there at this price point.