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by reasonabl_human 1666 days ago
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