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Just a couple of thoughts/questions if you don't mind: - How's the supply-chain side of things? For a while, vendors would only sell one Pi at a time, if they
by tonyarkles 9y ago
Just a couple of thoughts/questions if you don't mind:
- How's the supply-chain side of things? For a while, vendors would only sell one Pi at a time, if they had stock at all. Have you had any problems with that?
- Why do your customers know or care that there's a Pi inside? It seems like an implementation detail that only a select few would ever think to ask, unless you're telling them. "COTS ARM Cortex A53" would likely be enough to make most people's eyes glaze over before digging enough to discover that there's a "hobbyist" board inside.
Edit: I looked at your website and get it :). You're selling hosting, not pre-packaged devices. That's really interesting!
- dividuum 9y agoSupply for the "normal" Pi has never been a problem AFAIK. Only the Pi Zero has these problems. But as you noted: We don't sell prepackaged hardware: Only the software and service. Shipping/Warranty/Return handling seems pretty complicated and not worth the hassle (at least for now). Instead we made the installation as simple as possible and as a result users only have to unzip a single ZIP file to an empty SD card and put that in their Pi. So far even to most non-technical users managed to do that.
- tonyarkles 9y agoThat's awesome! Congrats! That's a really cool niche, and it sounds like you've executed on it in a pretty interesting way. Although I haven't done it recently, I did a fair bit of Lua embedded in C in my M.Sc. and found it to be a really smooth way to add a ton of power to C code without needing to do a bunch of work.