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Neat. I like the fresh take on validation. It’s not necessarily unique, but it may be cleaner / more efficient than previous attempts. The mixing of backend processing and the http layer reminds me of my CouchDB days. @stream seems potentially tricky to implement at scale but very useful. And a few nits here and there (eg maybe return a 202 instead of a 200 on accept), but overall pretty slick. Any numbers on performance and/or scalability in production?

Normalization matters. Well put.

Congrats! That's a big war chest to go to market.

Awesome news. Was very happy to invest. I wish this existed for onboarding when we were scaling Cloudant.

It's also popular to price a seed round (from 500k up, in my experience) using the "Series Seed" legal documents that are close to boilerplate now. As a founder turned investor, it seems that those docs could be streamlined into software easily. Most of the terms are standardized at this point, aside from board seats.

That part is, in my experience, vanishingly cheap if you're not doing high rate DB transactions. The whole thing could clearly be moved to other managed hosting providers or private servers, and I'm sure ultimately you can run a somewhat constrained version on the device itself. That said, launching in the cloud seems like the right choice temporally (time-to-market) and economically. Focusing (sorry) on building the actual device seems like a reasonable choice to me.

I think the pro is 'feed-able', wonder if that's it.

Take a look at the specs -- you can either vent them out a window or buy the air filter (which I'm guessing is a fancy charcoal scrubber, don't know for sure).

Good question for somebody on the GF team. My last company was Cloudant so my biases are pretty obvious.

Good question, I _think_ the ideas is the exact opposite -- you're not depending on Glowforge UI to be backed by a startups servers, the software runs on google cloud instead. Pros and cons, obviously, but I think the main pro is (like a Tesla) the machine's performance and usability can be improved without you installing any new software. As far as dependencies go, google's probably the best possible choice.

I ordered one, wish I could pick it up in person instead of paying the shipping. Particularly interested in seeing what one can do with just a pen and skipping the computer design stage...

Will give it a spin.

Good points.