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A comment on Ask HN: What are some “10x” *hardware* product innovations you have experienced?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” *hardware* product innovation... by schappim on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:11AM (#26486815)
WebUSB Postage Label Printer and WebUSB Postage Scales[1]:

  - No OS based printer queue to get gummed up
  - Super-fast (just ZPL printer commands being sent down the wire)
  - One-click to create a postage label
  - Automatic label printing when a new order comes in (Websocket + WebUSB)
We used to create labels by copying and pasting between Shopify and Australia Post. This hardware saves us ~4min per parcel.

[1] https://chickcom.com/hardware

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Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” *hardware* product innovation... by the_only_law on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:27AM (#26487610)
WebUSB in general was crazy to me, then I found out there was a WebHID and serial port API available and suddenly something I was looking at making a kernel driver for could be a web app???
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