<story><title>Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; All of those things affect the ultimate price of the box, and that’s why we have a range from about $50,000 to $60,000. If you were to a la carte all the different components that we put into this kit, it would end up costing you more than what we’re charging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;seriously&lt;/i&gt; doubt that. $50k for what appears to basically be 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi is absurd.&lt;p&gt;It also looks like they&amp;#x27;ve so far deployed exactly 1 of these setups in the real world and haven&amp;#x27;t even really started producing units for sale.  Right now this venture is a complete pipe dream and feels awfully out of touch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nylonstrung</author><text>The 2 founders literally have no agricultural expertise. One&amp;#x27;s last job was at a no-name business school accelerator and another worked in an administrative role in the non-profit world. There is a conspicuous absence of any kind of agronomy experience here.&lt;p&gt;As someone who has some perspective on the conditions of the purported customer for this they are so out of touch it is ridiculous and.</text></comment>
<story><title>Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; All of those things affect the ultimate price of the box, and that’s why we have a range from about $50,000 to $60,000. If you were to a la carte all the different components that we put into this kit, it would end up costing you more than what we’re charging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;seriously&lt;/i&gt; doubt that. $50k for what appears to basically be 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi is absurd.&lt;p&gt;It also looks like they&amp;#x27;ve so far deployed exactly 1 of these setups in the real world and haven&amp;#x27;t even really started producing units for sale.  Right now this venture is a complete pipe dream and feels awfully out of touch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cylinder</author><text>My scam senses were tingling before I got to the comments. Most likely this is a routine NGO&amp;#x2F;EDU&amp;#x2F;Gov scam backed by an aggressive and shiny sales approach.</text></comment>