This is this is one of those situations of knowing their audience. The machine is nice and does some impressive things for the price. Their software works fine for the people that the hardware was designed.
Very much so. When she (my wife) was first looking at getting one I went down the whole "maybe you should get an X, Y, or Z instead..." and then began thinking about her having to learn a more complicated design package, seeing how cheap some of the different Cricut tools can be when bought on sale, and I realized that it probably was just fine.
Sure, it's not a pro level device, but it did allow her to easily get shapes cut out of vinyl or cardboard or whatever with very little ease. The software worked for someone without a background in traditional design software. And it really didn't cost that much.
Few years on she still uses it, it works well enough... And that's it.
I sometimes/often think/realize the HN crowd falls hard into the technical perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good, and a number of the replies here clearly illustrate that.
For my purposes, it was the thing that took the PoC to MVP to get physical things into hands of people. It took me from "never gonna happen" because of price to purchase minimum order quantities that I would never use all of in multiple lifetimes, or fiddle with a tool targeted at crafting/hobby world and get it done.
If I sold it today, I'd get enough money where ($purchasePrice - $sellPrice) > $valueToMeForUsing. That seems like a pretty good deal for something that did that job I asked of it.
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Very much so. When she (my wife) was first looking at getting one I went down the whole "maybe you should get an X, Y, or Z instead..." and then began thinking about her having to learn a more complicated design package, seeing how cheap some of the different Cricut tools can be when bought on sale, and I realized that it probably was just fine.
Sure, it's not a pro level device, but it did allow her to easily get shapes cut out of vinyl or cardboard or whatever with very little ease. The software worked for someone without a background in traditional design software. And it really didn't cost that much.
Few years on she still uses it, it works well enough... And that's it.
I sometimes/often think/realize the HN crowd falls hard into the technical perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good, and a number of the replies here clearly illustrate that.
For my purposes, it was the thing that took the PoC to MVP to get physical things into hands of people. It took me from "never gonna happen" because of price to purchase minimum order quantities that I would never use all of in multiple lifetimes, or fiddle with a tool targeted at crafting/hobby world and get it done.
If I sold it today, I'd get enough money where ($purchasePrice - $sellPrice) > $valueToMeForUsing. That seems like a pretty good deal for something that did that job I asked of it.