Comment by linuxdude314

I love the amount of unfettered optimism in this thread, but lets be clear this likely will amount to vaporware (at least the mesh part).

Using an invite only system to bootstrap a distributed network that inherently relies on network effect makes absolutely no sense.

Having an amateurish website that consumes so much resources it doesn't render faster than 5 FPS on an MBP should make you question the marketing prowess of this company.

Straya Markovic, one of the lead engineers for FireChat is a co-founder. This is both a pro and a con. Like most engineer led companies they don't seem to understand the tremendous effort required to bootstrap this network and focus only on the technology aspects in their marketing.