[anonymouse008]

Sharp mind and entertaining writing!

I've had a few projects like this where I list out the BOM then go for 'reasonable business success profit' and scratch my head at exactly this line:

> At even just 60k per founder, with the profit per sign sold being maybe $400, you would probably need to sell ~600 signs at full price per year to create enough revenue to run payroll.

Hardware is an exponent to the value of the internal reward, but the root of all business profit. We need a better funding mechanism for this style of development - more like the hardware lifecycle - wasn't Bolt doing something like that?