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$8M still seems high for a scale.

• rocqua 9y ago
  100 000 for the scale, 7 900 000 for knowing where to put the scale.
  • chrischen 9y ago
    100,000 still seems high. Clearly I'm in the wrong industry. I should be fleecing enterprise businesses instead.
    • firethief 9y ago
      Let me introduce you to a thing called Java!
• Dylan16807 9y ago
  Yeah, a lot of the lesson seems to (unintentionally) be "don't outsource small things". Even completely ignoring the fan solution, the CEO could have assigned one existing engineering employee to work on it and gotten an $8k system with a non-precision scale.
• jordanb 9y ago
  That's because the story is bogus. Weighing products for QA (to make sure there wasn't underfilling) is extremely common. It's called "checkweighing" and you can buy COTS scales to do exactly that. https://doranscales.com/checkweighers/in-motion-checkweigher https://doranscales.com/checkweighers/in-motion-checkweigher
• pcurve 9y ago
  Yes, but $8MM is total project cost = existing full time employee costs, outside consultant cost, and hardware + software.