Facebook FrontRow video has now been watched 116000 times, which is impressive for a product released last week on a spartan marketing budget.
https://www.facebook.com/frontrow/
From the investing boards I can count 2 people who have already bought it. I will likely be the 3rd one, I just have to convince my better half. (Profits from successful FrontRow will be far more remunerative to my portfolio than cost of the camera
One review on Rule Breakers board (requires paid subscription).
http://discussion.fool.com/1069/just-a-quick-first-impressions-u…
All the above said, UBNTs forays in consumer products hasn’t got me invested in the company. I am actually very sceptical of Pera’s hobby projects.
The first one was SunMax - I thought it was a great product. For 2 years I was listening to solar city earnings call on how they would reduce the cost to 2.2 USD per Watt from 2.75 (?). Pera had got that down to 1.5 USD per watt with a plug and play system. The trick no - sales, marketing, administrative overheads or financing tie-ups. Like with WISP he expected the small local entrepreneurs to fill that void and spread that word. But Pera never invested enough to pump prime the ecosystem and it has never gained significant traction. Investment in pump priming the ecosystem is not bad and required. He needs to understand that. I believe the real WISP opportunity and potential is also stymied by it.
After Sunmax, I expected Amplifi to go down similar path. But surprisingly it actually did quite well (for the investment and marketing spend) and there was a viral youtube video which garnered 3 million views.
So who knows how Front Row will do ? A home run here will be awesome, but do not base your investing decision on it.