Every time, I’ve seen someone ask about doing a hardware startup here on HN the general advice is do not do it, almost like anyone wanting to do a PhD.
Currently at a hardware-inclusive startup: most certainly is a different beast and requires a whole host of other engineering skill sets.. plus you are at the mercy of supply chains, long lead times in iteration, slimmer margins…. Time to market is immensely slow by comparison to a SaaS product and if you don’t get it right, there’s no remote hotfix to a bug at the hw level.. you need cash to burn, and time to burn it
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I think we need to change the flow and focus more on hackernews journeys from diverse perspectives.
Why am I here:
I´m here for like 2 years just to understand software guys (and software) better so that i can help them better without education in software itself.
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How things are going for yc
I also think yc is loosing ground and going the right were antler went left on the actual vc funding path.
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what is important:
i used that example to showcase transdiciplinair learning. (long story short in psychology -->your brains connect like a road when your 6 when your 12 it is a highway and when your 22 its a runway but without fuel you don´t start meaning these yc people all have the ingredients to 1^build something people want but 2^people need domolishing dogma only than you start going of the regular road but still the essential ingredients of a good yc founder.
Solution: don´t become reddit, don´t become twitter but reinvent the yc added value
Not really, it's all pretty much ripe for software-based redefinition. Supply chain, electronics, production, design, assembly, inventory, testing... standard efficiency levels are low and trends toward distributed manufacturing, JIT, redundant supply chains and high mix / low volume mean software based process definition and management become critical and the days of the old ways are numbered.