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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by Liftyee on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:46AM (#47715684)
As someone who makes things it always confuses me when millions just disappear whenever a company or government contractor makes things. Give me $17M and I'll build a vacuum robot prototype in under 2 years, I can't imagine 10 engineers getting paid $100+k/year can't do it in less time? Tooling is expensive, but not THAT expensive...
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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by ubercore on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:19AM (#47716395)
Get it approved in a lot of large markets? Deal with ongoing supply issues as suppliers change and you need to maintain your product? Market it? I could keep going on, but making a prototype is the easy part, making a sustaining business out of it is the hard part.
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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by seb1204 on Friday April 10, 2026 @09:56AM (#47718241)
Moving the goalposts so soon.
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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by fxtentacle on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:13AM (#47715891)
I would agree. CNC-ing POM also tends to work extremely well for prototype plastic parts.

Also, I already built a robot arm, a robot car, and a custom camera in my free time. So I’m having a hard time imagining that a robot vacuum prototype wouldn’t be possible for me to build in a year, let alone with the team size that $1m in annual salaries buys.

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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by petre on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:24AM (#47715959)
The robot vacuum is already there. The Chinese buit a better, cheaper one and the original company went bankrupt.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lr75lp239o

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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by RamblingCTO on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:04AM (#47715828)
You sure? You ever ran a business? Prototyping costs, machines, licenses, overhead etc. etc.
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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git by Dylan16807 on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:02AM (#47716235)
The prototyping and machine costs are easily under a million. It's one custom-built vacuum.

You can do it with 0-3 digits of license cost too.

There's no sane way the business overhead more than doubles things.

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