3 years ago, me and my co-founder were trying to build a marketplace for teams raising money on Kickstarter to find manufacturers in Schengen(China. We had little initial success but our vision was to build something similar to Alloy.

It is humbling to see it happening. If you guys need someone to expand you in Asia or other places globally then I would love to join you full time or part time.

I studied hardware manufacturing and loopholes while building our startup in 2015, I know you guys are doing something important.

Apoorv

I am also from India and got selected. Send me your info and we can connect.

@gokulns on Twitter. :)

Whatever you do just make sure you are not sabotaging something under under false notion. Along with your career there are other stakes but do it if you are completely assured.

Even is this particular nutjob chose to share this nonsense, the only question in my mind is that why he blessed HN wit his presence.

I agree, they created something great and they are providing more non-biased information on the product.

Aereo is not violating anything but they should have prepared for something like this. Absurdity is common when you are trying to provide similar service to the consumer in a better way without creating monopoly.

>Aereo is not violating anything but they should have been prepared for something like this.

In what other sense could they have been prepared? They fully expected to end up in the courts, likely through the supreme court, and planned appropriately. They lost the case, but it doesn't seem to be for lack of preparation.

I was proposing for them to be prepared before it happened not for the trial.

Sorry, I'm still confused what you mean by "be prepared before it happened". Are you saying they should have pursued a different strategy/loophole around copyright law? That they should have realized they had no chance and not pursued funding? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just genuinely don't understand what preparation you're saying they should have taken.

For the record, I work at a company with a lot of former Navic Networks employees (the company Chet Kanjoia founded before Aereo) so there's plenty of talk about Aereo and I'm pretty familiar with their model.

I can't imagine myself at their position so all I can give my honest opinion not judgement. What I am saying is that they should have suspected that. It is not my fully informed opinion and it can't be. And I can fully understand your point too. That's pretty much it.