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Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

#1
Amidst the sea of software startups, I'm keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted "hardware is hard" mantra. Whether you're working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.

Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It's the passion and innovation that counts.

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#6
As someone who used to work at an IoT company the consumer space is brutal. Unless you've got something you can sell for 10x BOM, or there's naturally a subscription based model then it's not worth the blood, sweat, and tears.

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#7

We have a unidirectional gateway with a complete protocol break. Sales are picking up. We’re hoping to deliver a guard later this year. Hardware may be hard, but what’s really hard are high assurance attack resistant systems.

is it cross domain solution?

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#8
We make a camera system for construction sites. Using computer vision, we can identify when and for how long subcontractors show up as well as notify our customers of unwanted behavior on site.

https://bedrockwireless.com/

Fun fact, we probably have the best port-o-potty detector in the world.

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#10
Tried this in the past, indeed hard to do, and, very heavy on cash investment, don't even think about bootstrapping it, crowdfunding might be the only way moving forward unless you somehow received huge investment.

Most important thing is "ecosystem" to me, i.e. the logistics of ICs, PCB factories, upstream and downstream vendors, etc are all in the same place or city, I don't see anywhere in US that provides this yet.

I went to Shenzhen instead, which has everything a hardware startup dreamed of, COVID kind of screwed it up for me though, back to software stuff.

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