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I'll toss this out there. I am a software guy who manufactures a simple electronic device on the side The product cost around $30k to develop plus around eigh
by hahamrfunnyguy 10y ago
I'll toss this out there. I am a software guy who manufactures a simple electronic device on the side
The product cost around $30k to develop plus around eight months of full-time development effort. We currently make about $15k-20k a year in profits. I've been doing this for six years now, and we make small incremental improvements every release that don't cost a lot to do. I mostly focus on overseeing manufacturing, QA and maintaining a dealer network who will sell the product.
I am embarrassed to say I haven't spent a lot of time on growing the operation, but on the flipside the return is pretty good for the amount of work that I put in to it.
- nthState 10y agoI've been interested in making a hardware device too, is it a custom PCB? - Did you prototype with Arduino?
- hahamrfunnyguy 10y agoYes, it's a custom PCB with a machined enclosure. We didn't prototype with Arduino, but we used other development boards. I set a target unit cost, then we selected parts based on cost, performance and availability. Once we had a MCU in mind, we ordered a development kits and built an initial prototype using the dev board. After that, we did all future prototypes using custom PCBs from a contract manufacturer.