Yarbo, I know you think you’re trying to address questions during your live streams, but please stop being so defensive, and trying to explain away the shortcomings of Yarbo. Watching a round table and hearing that this is “new technology” and “be patient” shows just how much you are missing the point. Let me make it clear for you:
Stop advertising as if Yarbo does something when it doesn’t. It is deceiving.this is why people are frustrated about the current state of the software. You buy expecting one thing, and get something much less.
Showing Yarbo running in a lawn and saying things like “look, no zero-turns, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do” is a bit insulting. You have highly capable, technically savvy individuals that purchased your product, they are telling you exactly what it is doing wrong, and you mock them on a live stream?
Stop spending so much time trying to convince people the reports in the forum are somehow misinformed. Instead, maybe put some more effort into giving some VALUABLE tips on how to map, how to handle edge cases, how to solve challenges with the existing software. I have not seen once in any of the videos that using dead ends to mow a corner is a very effective way to “cut corners”, something Yarbo can’t do just in a mapped area, for example.
Don’t think I’m picking on Yarbo. Last year Apple announced a bunch of AI features that they never delivered on, and they are getting hammered for it. Us users are excited about Yarbo, this piece of equipment and what it is capable of, but you’ve got to bring expectations closer to reality or you will keep stumbling.
You guys can do better. Address the issues as they come up in the forums, learn from these issues and create better content that actually helps users. Running Yarbo for an hour and just talking nonsense, making it sound like you’re a “regular guy” that can run this complex piece of equipment is helping no one. Give some real tips, be more respectful for the incredible user base that is growing your company, and lose the defensiveness. It’s not doing you any favors.
I’ve been nudging the (almost) daily livestream folks to do more as you suggest. It’s one of the reasons Ryan has done mapping “live.” And a reason he put weight on his aerator in an earlier video, but, umm…yeah, a couple of random stones aren’t cinderblocks…umm…yeah, OK, he knows, and he’s a good sport. LOL!
But I think those daily livestreams started as an off-the-cuff idea by Ryan – he just started doing them during snowblowing season, so there’s really no plan behind them, just fun and a good way to show people something. I like the idea of having tips and other education in there – along with the sales pitches, that’s fine. I try to field some questions during the livestreams, and now Kathy and Athena – Yarbo employees – are starting to step in, so over time I think this will become more “official.” Hoping they’ll get into more tech / training stuff with those videos, yeah.
Yep, weed trimmer demo! Who’s excited to get a glimpse of Yarbo’s butt swinging around while trimmer is on and lopping off the top half of wife’s flower bed?
Yep, did some re-mapping yesterday, got a little too close, and when Yarbo decided to zero-turn, its track just barely grazed my wife’s flowers. My first thought was Oh Shit, if Trimmer was attached, there would have been some pretty mulch right there.
I’ve been mucking about with a large circular feature in the yard and tried drawing a Deadend around it to get real close, which worked. I then used the Deadend as a reference to map a circle template No-go Zone, as the No-go Zone that was there was too big. I sized the No-go Zone in the inner ring of the Deadend — no no no no! Yeah, Yarbo turned around near the thing, and the back of the tracks made it into the No-go Zone, knocking around a few rocks. oops! So it looks like by putting the No-go Zone on the red dots (Deadend mapping line) may be the thing to do – still have to test a full run. So we’ll see. Even I can learn something new from minor destruction.
and Teal’c was there too