[kristopolous]

It's far simpler. Flipper is closer to a custom built PC, where you buy the parts online and then assemble them.

They got someone to probably use solidworks for the case design and they have some brilliant artists but beyond that you can buy all of these components online and basically snap them together, read some short documentation and be on your way.

Their initial goal was $60k, which would have covered 500 units which they probably presumed they'd be manually involved with each of them so it was basically set up for exactly what I described. They just had some runaway success, which is the problem because they still only have a cheap project that takes no special talent or time

I'm mostly jealous how much of success is just pure luck like this