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Some thoughts from the field on the causes of contract manufacturing defects. Not trying to be narcissistic, just hoping to contribute to the community in some way.

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Hi. Author here. Really sorry about all the issues. (1) Sorry for the bugs -- misconfigured subscribe tool has been removed and you can use http to access the site as there is an i…

That's a really good observation! We think GetScale works great for anything that: (1) Is valuable enough to warrant a serial number (unique ID) (2) Has unit margin of at least a f…

That's a really neat idea! You are describing a type of machine called an AOI (automated optical inspection). It is a common piece of equipment in electronics assembly lines. But A…

That's a very thoughtful comment! You're right in that if the factory wants to misbehave and the owner/GM is a tyrant, you aren't likely to directly impact worker treatment (we hav…

Hi HN. I'm Jonathan, one of the founders. I'll monitor this thread all day to answer questions. Thanks for taking the time to read about us! It means a lot to everyone here at GetS…

My company, GetScale, offers cheap fixed-price contract work in design-for-manufacturing (identify and avoid the kinds of mistakes mentioned in the article) and going forward my ov…

Completely agree with you. The article seems to make the point that investors would welcome these changes, when in reality, we will be forcing these changes on investors. That was …

I'm an entrepreneur, so it all sounds great for me, but why would investors go for this? It seems like they give up a lot of down-side protection: (1) No ability to convert or abor…

If I didn't know any better, I'd say you hacked into our white board software... ;-) Yes! It's all coming.

Thank you! I hope you will. Things are moving really quickly internally. In other news, we fixed the splash screen. It now permanently dismisses so you shouldn't see it too often. …

Hi from Jonathan (cofounder). Thanks for the awesome detailed feedback. We hear you and are already working on (or have it on the near-term roadmap) almost all of this. I apologize…