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lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups

No, we weren’t afraid of a negative comment at SkyFi…we are focused on customer feedback and making things better. We treat everyone as if they were Carmack. If you read the whole thread he was still critical of our product and it wasn’t all roses and sunshine.

lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

We clearly list our pricing on the app and our website and are the first to do that. On the website we display our pricing. When in the app you constantly see the pricing very clearly...if you desire a 5km2 area you'll see that price, 6km2 you'll see that price, etc etc. The fact that we've created an application that allows infinite variability on size of the image requested with multiple sensor types there is no way to list pricing for every scenario. I'd like to know more about what you'd like to see to make it simpler as we are always striving for perfection.

lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

Well with SAR you can get moisture content of soil which can help with crop yields. Right now third parties do this for ag work but our goal is to have integrated analytics cause really a farmer doesn't care about the imagery he or she cares about crop yields...that's what we are solving for.

lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

Excellent thoughts! Once more supply comes then there is obviously more consumer optionality (time of a break in). We test internally on ordering a New Image via tasking a satellite (aka pass prediction) but I'm not willing to release it to the wild until its reliable and a magical experience. We aren't there yet.

Speed of delivery is extremely important. Again, more supply means better speed and future tech will enable downloads faster.

Copy all on multispectral and will put that into the pipe to clear up re: bands

Exclusivity pricing is interesting and what we talk about a lot. It's a tougher problem because you may buy that image from us from a specific provider but then another provider could take the same exact image and it's not unique anymore. Regardless, will work on it and if there is enough demand then I'm all about it.

lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

That's the goal...we have some interesting partnerships and a partner of ours is Albedo- 10cm resolution. A lot of our work deals with negotations to get them to believe the mission. Most have incentive to keep selling to the Govt, which I totally understand.

lukefischer | 3 years ago | on: Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

A frequent comment we get is "there's no consumer market cause it's been tried before"...false. Of course there has not been a consumer adoption because you have to buy huge chunks of earth, enter a contract for 5-6 figures, and the whole process takes months and months. Previous business model before we started was like Uber saying, "contact sales if you want a ride and they'll get you a custom quote for the year with a minimum price of $10,000". Uber would've lasted a couple weeks with that mindset. So why has the EO industry persisted, cause there has been no other options and the Govt has been the largest spender.
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