Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
by synergy20 on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:29PM
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I'm fairly technical myself, mostly I need someone good at frontend(vuejs), where I need help to design nice UI for the (embedded device) product. I spent my own time learning vuejs but, not as fast as I wanted so far, I am a low level developer coding in c/c++ basically. I have been thinking about hiring a (cheaper) overseas vuejs3 developer for a while using my own money, the reality is that, hiring is more challenging than learning vuejs, so I stuck with the latter, but, it's slow.
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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
by Workaccount2 on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:07PM
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I see "embedded" and get scared.
Hardware is an order of magnitude (or nine, twelve) more difficult than a software startup. Expensive rev'ing, long turn arounds, supply chain mayhem, overseas production, profits thinner than the paper they are printed on.
The hardware graveyard of kickstarter is chock full of dreamy eyed hardware guys for good reason.
Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
by synergy20 on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:20PM
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Understood, my model is to buy existing solid hardware in volume based on orders received and load them with my own software(and UI) for certain vertical markets. Making hardware is a totally different market where cash burning is real and fast, small players simply can not afford.