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Comment by postexitus | Hacker News Reader

Even if it's not vapourware, the website makes it look like one. Just look at those two graphs titled "Jotunn 8 Outperforms the Market" and "More Speed For the Bucks" (!) ; WTH?

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The people who build landing pages for hardware startups are usually (almost always) not the same people who design and build the actual hardware, for better or worse. A lot of the times, it's a outsourced web design agency who receive a brief, often written by business people, and finally the website is reviewed by business people, with some feedback from technical people who complain about the graphs, accuracy and so on. Then the business people say "But we need to point out we're faster than everyone else" and the engineers reply with "Sure, ok, whatever, I have actual work to do, sounds good".

Not just hardware startups, alas.

That's not an excuse. This company has more than a few handful of employees. Somebody saw those graphs without units, labels, tags and approved them. Have the CEO never opened their own webpage once and scrolled down?

Absolutely not, I agree! It's shameful, at the very best, and definitely should be fixed.

I was just trying to explain how "obvious" issues like that happen in the first place, not to excuse it, but to explain the likely background behind it.

The silly verbiage can be excused but not the graphs with completely unlabeled data points, IMO.

Yep that's what I mean - looks like AI slop to me.

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