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General Discussion

This is the place to ask any general questions about developing, manufacturing, and selling a hardware product. Topics may include development strategies, funding, patents, business strategies, scaling, marketing, and sales. Basically anything that isn't too technical.

376 topics in this forum

  1. Good source for (cardboard) product boxes?

    By Marc Novakowski,
    • 5 replies
    • 59 views

  2. Air sterilization system

    By Kimberly Lewis,   
    • 0 replies
    • 20 views

  3. Design Houses in US/Canada

    By Tedy,
    • 2 replies
    • 43 views

  4. Availability of LoRaWAN, NB-IOT, and LTE-M

    By Larry,
    • 2 replies
    • 38 views

  5. Product validation - Good or bad?

    By Hook,
    • 3 replies
    • 42 views

  6. Best strategy to scale from prototype to product, road to 10k units.

    By roveregi,
    • 7 replies
    • 109 views

  7. Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

    By Dave Millman,   
    • 2 replies
    • 43 views

  8. Investors without a prototype?

    By Larry,
    • 4 replies
    • 64 views

  9. Scaling up manufacturing after launch

    By Sam@Congruent,
    • 5 replies
    • 97 views

  10. Which comes first the looks-like or works-like prototype

    By John Teel,
    • 2 replies
    • 39 views

  11. Which are your CAD tools of choice 1 2

    By tshoman,
    • 39 replies
    • 1k views

  12. What is the cheapest way to get a product developed?

    By John Teel,
    • 1 reply
    • 49 views

  13. What is the typical cost range for development?

    By John Teel,
    • 1 reply
    • 35 views

  14. Best development strategy for a maker?

    By John Teel,
    • 1 reply
    • 28 views

  15. Does this qualify as product validation?

    By Troy Yanda,
    • 7 replies
    • 55 views

  16. Outsourcing enclosure for prototype, legal matters

    By vtev,
    • 2 replies
    • 53 views

  17. Affordable Liability Insurance and not SHARKS

    By Umar Khan,
    • 1 reply
    • 37 views

  18. Seeking an electronic hardware and firmware design firm/designer

    By Bob,
    • 3 replies
    • 67 views

  19. Downloading the pdf files for the new course

    By Troy Yanda,
    • 3 replies
    • 25 views

  20. How to program an Atmega8515L and requirement connections

    By Zibaldo,
    • 4 replies
    • 44 views

  21. How to expand memory for a portable dictionary

    By Zibaldo,
    • 1 reply
    • 46 views

  22. Fusion 360 vs Kicad?

    By Clark Sann,
    • 12 replies
    • 140 views

  23. A good book about hardware startups (but mostly for funded startups)

    By Renaud,
    • 4 replies
    • 79 views

  24. ChatGPT and the future of AI for hardware startups

    By John Teel,
    • 11 replies
    • 128 views

  25. Product "features", "specifications" and "requirements" for a product requirements document (PRD)

    By Zine,
    • 1 reply
    • 40 views
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