Thanks everyone for a lively debate. There are many comments I could quote specifically and respond to but right now I don’t have the bandwidth or proper interface as I’m yelling into my mobile phone voice to text converter while traveling.
I’m trying to be very careful about discussing future platform features because those are just not a good idea to talk about right now. I’m trying to learn my lesson about discussing things like that which are not yet developed and basically putting myself into a position of having to backtrack or change plans simply because we talked through ideas that some people may consider to be promises.
The proof of concept, on the other hand, is exactly as presented. Not everybody’s going to love the price of it and there are issues of course with offering Google workspace accounts… everyone has identified very important and accurate problems in this area. But, the reason for the POC is not to explore the practicality of Google workspace accounts as subscription model services, it’s to explore the practicality of chip based authentication with Google SSO in general. There are real usability things we need to explore, and in the end the actual service platform we may develop will undoubtedly use this information to shape its development and feature set.
Personally I have a lot of things that I want to deploy that require a new service platform and so I really personally want to see this developed… But again it’s been several years since VivoKey has come into existence and so far, I’m pretty sure everyone would agree It’s been a categorical failure. Ideas and intentions and aspirations are not matching reality, and I realize the extreme levels of patients people have is nothing short of saintly. What are you don’t want to do is talk about making more promises and talking about the future and I want to try to get away from the whole soon™ concept in general. I want to deliver.
To that end, the proof of concept we’re talking about is absolutely going to be temporary. The entire purpose is to learn before taking first steps. Undoubtedly that’s going to be a messy process and in the end it’s going to be burnt to the ground so that whatever we build from the ashes will have the advantage of that knowledge. This is the clarity I want to offer anyone wanting to participate in the POC. It’s not representative of anything, it’s an experiment.