Dutch start-up Innovation In Motion for smart curtains is closing down – IT Pro – News

In fact, it should be mandatory from the start to be able to host it locally on these types of devices.

It is fine to offer a cloud service for the ordinary consumer who just wants to use an app on his phone and is apparently okay with the fact that his smart curtains will become dumb curtains in about 3 years, but there must also be a sustainable solution which is not necessarily as dummy proof.
Set up your system for local hosting and offer a cloud instance yourself for a monthly fee. Then it also becomes a revenue model and you don’t go bankrupt like you did all startups with a free cloud service with your product. And anyone who turns their nose up at “curtains as a service” can put a Raspberry Pi in a corner somewhere with their own instance.

Your product will probably be integrated into home assistant within a month by a group of fanatics and then you will immediately have a large number of new customers.

This is certainly better than companies that do nothing at all and just say “too bad, buddy, have fun with your paperweight”, but only offering it in the event of bankruptcy is a bit of malicious compliance in my opinion.

Whatever @Docc says. As far as I’m concerned, they are including a possibility of local hosting in the EU type approval for every IoT device on the market under the guise of sustainability. No local instance? Illegal in the EU, bye

[Reactie gewijzigd door youridv1 op 6 mei 2024 11:26]