Hostabee is a legitimate French IoT company (est. 2015) offering connected beehive sensors and pest traps (trapr.io). However, the project submission contains severe inaccuracies, including false claims of reaching 'everyone' and 'most people' using the product. While the underlying technology addresses a genuine problem (bee health) and has been functional for nearly a decade, the submission quality is abysmal, lacking verifiable metrics and technical details. The revenue/market cap figure provided is nonsensical. The score reflects the reality of a niche, functional product severely penalized by a dishonest and low-effort submission.
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