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Man this is really cool. The transparency is awesome. Shipping a hardware product as a bootstrapped founder sounds (at least) an order of magnitude harder than
by beoberha 3y ago
Man this is really cool. The transparency is awesome. Shipping a hardware product as a bootstrapped founder sounds (at least) an order of magnitude harder than a software product.
Edit: oh and congrats on the success this year! I’d have to imagine it feels insanely rewarding!
- mtlynch 3y agoThanks for reading and for the kind words! >Shipping a hardware product as a bootstrapped founder sounds (at least) an order of magnitude harder than a software product. Yeah, it ended up being way harder than I expected. I actually didn't even mean to make a hardware product. In the beginning, I thought people would just buy off-the-shelf components and pay me to make nice software to tie everything together. It became pretty obvious early on that people were a lot more interested in a pre-made hardware solution than a DIY project with ready-made software. And I'm glad I made it to the point of profitability and worked hard at it, but I also definitely got lucky a lot. There are so many more existential threats to a hardware business, especially in the early days.