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Fellow software dev here, Your post just reads like the equivalent of "I just need some nerd to do my app for like 50 bucks and then I'll be rich". I think yo

Fellow software dev here, Your post just reads like the equivalent of "I just need some nerd to do my app for like 50 bucks and then I'll be rich". I think you should stop immediately. Please try to not take this the wrong way as much as you can, but you sound completely oblivious of what product design, hardware engineering and industrial production of something entails. Obviously you don't know, but the worst part is I'm afraid you don't want to know and therefor you place little value/difficulty in the hardware part. If you only spend your money, I would say go ahead, it would be a very valuable lesson.

stronglikedan 4y ago
> Your post just reads like the equivalent of "I just need some nerd to do my app for like 50 bucks and then I'll be rich". I didn't get that at all. Seems like they're just looking for someone to partner with on a new idea, to me.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  I did get the same vibes that the person you are replying to especially after reading the part on the idea potentially involving R&D. I think people with experience in manufacturing or industrial process are naturally wary of neophytes. It’s not that things can’t be done but anything involving physical goods will in my experience be at least an order of magnitude more complicated that what someone inexperienced would imagine. Then again, you learn by doing.
elil17 4y ago
I disagree with this. Every "app idea" I've heard could be built, so going to a software developer and asking them whether it's possible is the wrong question. Someone with an app idea needs to be asking whether there is a market for their idea. Figuring out whether an idea like OP's can be built is a difficult question for someone who doesn't know how to search for materials. In contrast, it's pretty easy for a mechanical engineer. OP is asking the right question.
doitLP 4y ago
Interesting take. I thought I made it abundantly clear I don’t know what I don’t know and am looking to see if the idea is even worth pursuing farther? Perhaps the components exist, perhaps they don’t. Why not bounce the idea of someone else?

stronglikedan 4y ago

> Your post just reads like the equivalent of "I just need some nerd to do my app for like 50 bucks and then I'll be rich". I didn't get that at all. Seems like they're just looking for someone to partner with on a new idea, to me.

WastingMyTime89 4y ago
I did get the same vibes that the person you are replying to especially after reading the part on the idea potentially involving R&D. I think people with experience in manufacturing or industrial process are naturally wary of neophytes. It’s not that things can’t be done but anything involving physical goods will in my experience be at least an order of magnitude more complicated that what someone inexperienced would imagine. Then again, you learn by doing.

elil17 4y ago

I disagree with this. Every "app idea" I've heard could be built, so going to a software developer and asking them whether it's possible is the wrong question. Someone with an app idea needs to be asking whether there is a market for their idea. Figuring out whether an idea like OP's can be built is a difficult question for someone who doesn't know how to search for materials. In contrast, it's pretty easy for a mechanical engineer. OP is asking the right question.

doitLP 4y ago

Interesting take. I thought I made it abundantly clear I don’t know what I don’t know and am looking to see if the idea is even worth pursuing farther? Perhaps the components exist, perhaps they don’t. Why not bounce the idea of someone else?