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Comment by jcoffland | Hacker News Reader

This reads like an onion article. This material is ripe for an episode of Silicon Valley.

Eh, it's just a fact that most startups fail. They tried, they ran out of money. Launching an IoT startup in 2012 in Australia was pretty ballsy. Total outside investment was only $1.7m over 3 years. Had they been overfunded like a stereotyped smoke-bloated Valley startup, maybe they would have had more runway.

What a mean thing to say about a shutdown post. Kicking people when they're down is not ok.

Please don't post mean comments to Hacker News.

And you think it's perfectly ok for a company to say, "hey sorry guys we wont be delivering what we promised you because we made bad decisions and spent all your money." Sure companies fail but this is ridiculous. A typical example of a heavily promoted company riding a wave of hype in to the gutter. I'm sure it's hard for the guys who built this company but they should be ashamed of not delivering what they promised 300 of their customers. I found their post rather cavalier and deserving of some kicking.

I'm not saying HN should be a place of ruthless criticism and shnarky comments but I'm also not in the camp that thinks it should all be cuddling and cooing either.

> And you think it's perfectly ok

No; more than one thing is not ok.

HN's values aren't "cooey and cuddly", they're "civil and substantive". That leaves plenty of room for criticism, so I'm not really seeing the worry here.

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