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I am not sure "org-mode" and "great market demand" typically refer to the same product. If you think there's great market demand, you should put up a Kickstart

I am not sure "org-mode" and "great market demand" typically refer to the same product. If you think there's great market demand, you should put up a Kickstarter for one of these things. battery + esp32 + readily-available display + some protocol to sync Emacs and your display. You can prototype it in a weekend, and cash in on the demand.

swores 4y ago
On the one hand, in this case I don't agree with the person you replied to who thinks there would be great market demand for this (at least at the price points currently possible). On the other hand... there are plenty of things in the world which could have lots of demand for if they were sold, or if they were invented and then sold, quite often I think of something, or see someone else's idea, where I think that's the case. But even if I were the most entrepreneurial entrepreneur imaginable, I couldn't start a business around every single thing I form an opinion on it having the potential to succeed. Acting as if someone must be willing (and knowledgable enough both about how to make the thing in question and how to market it to get kickstarter traction etc etc) otherwise their opinion that it has a potential market fit is somehow invalid, just feels... mean spirited.
m01 4y ago
> battery + esp32 + readily-available display Here you go (out of stock though): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-5-7?variant=40057850331219 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-5-7?variant=40... It uses the raspberry pi pico w instead of an esp32 but close enough? Opinions my own.
- jrockway 4y ago
  Yup, that's exactly what OP wants. You write some software to fetch the calendar / org-mode entries, and there's your prototype for the Kickstarter. Like all hardware projects, the tough part is the software and the marketing. The software honestly feels like a day's worth of work. I don't know if TinyGo has a driver for the Pico W wifi chip, but I've used an ESP32 with nina and you basically initialize the WiFi core and then use net/http like a program running on a big computer. Very very easy. Times have never been better for Internet-connected microcontroller programmers.

swores 4y ago

On the one hand, in this case I don't agree with the person you replied to who thinks there would be great market demand for this (at least at the price points currently possible). On the other hand... there are plenty of things in the world which could have lots of demand for if they were sold, or if they were invented and then sold, quite often I think of something, or see someone else's idea, where I think that's the case. But even if I were the most entrepreneurial entrepreneur imaginable, I couldn't start a business around every single thing I form an opinion on it having the potential to succeed. Acting as if someone must be willing (and knowledgable enough both about how to make the thing in question and how to market it to get kickstarter traction etc etc) otherwise their opinion that it has a potential market fit is somehow invalid, just feels... mean spirited.

m01 4y ago

> battery + esp32 + readily-available display Here you go (out of stock though): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-5-7?variant=40057850331219 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-5-7?variant=40... It uses the raspberry pi pico w instead of an esp32 but close enough? Opinions my own.

jrockway 4y ago
Yup, that's exactly what OP wants. You write some software to fetch the calendar / org-mode entries, and there's your prototype for the Kickstarter. Like all hardware projects, the tough part is the software and the marketing. The software honestly feels like a day's worth of work. I don't know if TinyGo has a driver for the Pico W wifi chip, but I've used an ESP32 with nina and you basically initialize the WiFi core and then use net/http like a program running on a big computer. Very very easy. Times have never been better for Internet-connected microcontroller programmers.