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You might be a bit early (especially in the USA), but I think helping people implement LoRa will be a massive market. (Bigger than setting up WiFi networks for

You might be a bit early (especially in the USA), but I think helping people implement LoRa will be a massive market. (Bigger than setting up WiFi networks for companies back in the day.) It covers a unique niche between GSM and WiFi that just couldn't be solved until now. I think your segmentation is way to rough. There is a ton of space between the farm with a few hundred nodes to manage, and Nest with a few million nodes. People are just learning best practices to manage a few thousand web servers. Managing a few thousand brickable devices with KBs of RAM is more challenging.

siscia 9y ago
You definitely have a point on the segmentation, however, there was a rationale behind it. It seems to me quite unlikely that someone will buy only the software and not the hardware, I believe that most of these systems will be installed by some vertical company that will sell both hardware and software. And I honestly don't have the knowledge, nor the capital, to set up a vertical company around (say agriculture). It ends up to understand what should be my customers and I am afraid they won't be the final user of the system. My customers are technical, I provide them with digital data that they should somehow consume and it is not an easy task...
- lifeisstillgood 9y ago
  My thoughts are that no-one will invest in hundreds or thousands of nodes till they have seen and bought and used a dozen - and the supplier of the prototype will almost certainly be the supplier for the rest. For many companies the sales channel to this might be the it agency (postlight type of company) - so I would suggest selling your expertise to these guys first.
  - siscia 9y ago
    I agree with you, whoever will provide the first working prototype will provide the whole system. What you mean by postlight type of company?
    - lifeisstillgood 9y ago
      Postlight is a NYC based agency that do "initial digital MVPs" or similar - taking companies to a starting point for some new venture - do a good ish podcast - search iTunes

siscia 9y ago

You definitely have a point on the segmentation, however, there was a rationale behind it. It seems to me quite unlikely that someone will buy only the software and not the hardware, I believe that most of these systems will be installed by some vertical company that will sell both hardware and software. And I honestly don't have the knowledge, nor the capital, to set up a vertical company around (say agriculture). It ends up to understand what should be my customers and I am afraid they won't be the final user of the system. My customers are technical, I provide them with digital data that they should somehow consume and it is not an easy task...

lifeisstillgood 9y ago
My thoughts are that no-one will invest in hundreds or thousands of nodes till they have seen and bought and used a dozen - and the supplier of the prototype will almost certainly be the supplier for the rest. For many companies the sales channel to this might be the it agency (postlight type of company) - so I would suggest selling your expertise to these guys first.
- siscia 9y ago
  I agree with you, whoever will provide the first working prototype will provide the whole system. What you mean by postlight type of company?
  - lifeisstillgood 9y ago
    Postlight is a NYC based agency that do "initial digital MVPs" or similar - taking companies to a starting point for some new venture - do a good ish podcast - search iTunes