liseman

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by liseman 10y ago
Eventually, we'll make tiny homes as affordable as other factory-built products: car prices, if not cheaper.
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Launch HN: Boxouse (YC W17) – Shipping-container homes
142 points by liseman 10y ago|152 comments
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by liseman 10y ago
2k is delivered to my door. Definitely still a surplus, but they're worth something as scrap: prices fluctuate directly with steel's scrap price.
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by liseman 10y ago
Heather and I build these; happy to answer any questions! -Luke
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Shipping Containers as Tiny Homes(bloomberg.com)
1 points by liseman 10y ago|4 comments
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Shipping container homes, land optional;)(blog.sfgate.com)
1 points by liseman 10y ago|0 comments
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by liseman 10y ago
Launch:) Short of this, get your cardboard-box-level prototype into users' hands. No matter how early and rough, show your product to potential customers and listen to what they say. You'll learn more from an hour doing this than
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Supersonic Travel, No Bullshit(theguardian.com)
7 points by liseman 11y ago|6 comments
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by liseman 11y ago
My friend Spencer writes this. It's a high signal-to-noise weekly summary of developments in 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing news.
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Advanced Manufacturing Newsletter(pencerw.com)
8 points by liseman 11y ago|2 comments
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Revl (YC W16): stabilized action camera(indiegogo.com)
8 points by liseman 11y ago|3 comments
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Smart Home Hub with Privacy(indiegogo.com)
2 points by liseman 11y ago|0 comments
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by liseman 11y ago
Lots of great questions! Thanks for joining us. Email me ( luke@ycombinator.com ) after you apply for YC with your next big hardware thing:)
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by liseman 11y ago
Build things you want for yourself and publish them. Don't worry about cost optimization, production at scale, patents, etc.: just make something with unique functionality. Repeat. You'll be pleasantly surprised how quickly you le
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by liseman 11y ago
Hire a PR agency halfway through your campaign when you're so overwhelmed with backers and attention that you can't handle it yourself. Until then, DIY:)
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by liseman 11y ago
I believe we're in the earliest days: there's no dominant platform, and no 'killer use' for home automation / iot. I'd focus on your product, maybe adding support for platforms later.
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by liseman 11y ago
Check out the common part libraries released by Octopart / Seeed , and consider getting a resistor / cap library from your neighbors at Adafruit. Hackerspaces can be good resources for spare parts (and finding potential partners).
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by liseman 11y ago
Usually, abstractions like this serve as excuses to not launch. Launching doesn't fix everything, but it does increase your speed of learning dramatically.
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by liseman 11y ago
See http://www.ycombinator.com/hardware for current campaigns + products actively shipping. Nebia et al aren't on the list: companies get dropped post-crowdfunding and re-added when shipping:)
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by liseman 11y ago
Don't copy people's products. Other than that, companies spend too much time too early worrying about (and spending money on) IP. Prove demand for your product by launching; you've got a year post-disclosure to file a provisi
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Ask Us Anything: Y Combinator Hardware Companies Crowdfunding
89 points by liseman 11y ago|135 comments
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Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers(blog.ycombinator.com)
85 points by liseman 11y ago|55 comments
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by liseman 11y ago
what an interesting concept: technology as a constraint forcing you to focus. not just focus: focus more than you naturally would. focus more than you're comfortable with. continue going doing keeping on, regardless of whether you&#x27
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Soundboks: speakers to 11(kickstarter.com)
1 points by liseman 11y ago|0 comments
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by liseman 11y ago
It's about optionality: startups of all types can now do more with less. SBIRs, access to college labs, in-house prototyping facilities: these can certainly help, but what's exciting is that they're no longer required to ite
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by liseman 11y ago
I wouldn't read too much into it: I simply consider Airbnb a highly-valued and socially-impactful company.
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by liseman 11y ago
While I have no idea how many you specifically will choose to purchase, a majority of the hardware startups in our current batch will have product for sale via Amazon and other channels by summer 2016. This sounds strong given the history
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Joining a Different YC(blog.ycombinator.com)
200 points by liseman 11y ago|132 comments
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My shipping container house on CBS this morning. Happy to host tours(cbsnews.com)
2 points by liseman 12y ago|0 comments
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by liseman 14y ago
this is my latest project: grow better food and share with your friends. farmville, but in the real world:)

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