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This makes me wonder how Tidbyt's business is doing. They seem to have a fair amount of employees. I actually built something very similar and all in my spare
by dom96 4y ago
This makes me wonder how Tidbyt's business is doing. They seem to have a fair amount of employees.
I actually built something very similar and all in my spare time. I've been wondering how realistic making a side-business out of it is, but if you are a single engineer that has to code the firmware, server, build the displays and market it all... it's pretty tough (especially in your spare time).
- rohansingh 4y agoWe actually only have 4 FTE's today and our business is both sustainable and growing. Our scale is also a couple orders of magnitude larger than the numbers from the article, and we have much better control over our BOM. Hardware is a tough business and managing cash flow & inventory requires you to be a lot more deliberate than a pure SaaS business. Fortunately we had a lot of examples going in of how not to do things.
- wferrell 4y agoWhat a great reply. Thanks!
- walrus01 4y agoHave you considered making a larger version that is something like double the width, and would sell for approximately double (maybe $300?). I just took a look around the tidbyt website and it looks like a fairly well polished product. https://tidbyt.com/products/tidbyt https://tidbyt.com/products/tidbyt
- guiambros 4y agoGlad to hear! Happy Tidbyt user here. The device is incredibly well made, and love how you've been iterating. Wish the company all the success!