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A comment on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?.

Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by darthcloud on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:52PM (#32460743)
I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console. I've been working on it for the last three years. I entertained the idea to make and sell the hardware myself. But in the end I learned that's it's not something I'm interested to get into. What I really like is working on the software.

In the end this pivoted into a more community driven project where multiple makers are selling various variations of the HW and giving me a cut of their profit to support the SW development.

Recently I even got a Chinese company, notorious for selling "clone" of OSHW projects, to support the SW development as well via GitHub sponsor.

I wrote a retrospective of last 3 years [2].

[1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro

[2] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/discussions/289

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by stavros on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:44PM (#32461753)
That looks fantastic! I think Pimoroni will take care of the entire manufacturing and marketing process for you, if you want to contact them. Their CEO emailed me way back about this, but he hasn't replied to my multiple emails since, so YMMV.
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