Brilliant out of money

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It feels like money has been underlined.... It can't be a cheap exercise to enter and maintain a presence in the smart home space, let alone any other retail space...

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It was a bad product anyway. At some point the OS on those was not going to get patched or upgraded and just be a big vuln sitting on the network.

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An early investor... ? :wink:

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Sounds like it was a cool idea but not a great product.

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I've always felt the concept was a great idea.... perhaps it was just a little too early for those prepared to invest in that type of product....

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While their products are aesthetically pleasing, I'm with one of the comments from the article. The price points on their products was absolutely ridiculous.

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On the flipside... nice to be brilliant but out of money... :slight_smile: Well.... I know one of them... :wink:

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Well, it was cloud based, and android based so not surprising.

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So it was 50% ok....?

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Good interface doesn't come cheap, but if you don't have a solid foundation capable of supporting the roof, your building will sink. Brilliant has, well, a brilliant interface. They took Wink's Relay to the next level, for sure, but recovering the investment, toppled them in the end, it seems.

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Hubitat have a solid foundation now.... :wink: :grin:

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I don't think a switch should be using an OS to run a switch. Embedded firmware sure. but a whole OS seems uneeded. JMO

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I wish that these companies would sell off the IP to other companies that actually want to make products. My favorite example is Harmony. Orphaned great hardware design at least.

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Would be very cool if they would sell it off and it could be set up as an open project. Can't be anything in their setup that is revolutionary/unknown at this point...

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Sonoff HSPanel ($50, original) + Home Assistant does a very nice job. A bit of DIY project but after all it is really "Brilliant".

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Logitech tried for a while to sell off the Harmony Remote control division, IIRC. I would love if they’d just Open Source it. I am just glad they are still running the Harmony cloud servers.

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For the moment

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Or at least open the code, ive seen cooment they should do so so people that bought them can still use them.

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I think this story covered their failings better...

But ultimately, being a very expensive product without enough functionality to back that up is what killed Brilliant.