Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

Post by nabilt » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 4:57 AM UTC

ycombinatornews wrote: post #527

nabilt wrote: post #328

I'm building an open source water meter to detect costly water leaks and track your water usage. The hardware design is flexible enough to easily repurpose it for measuring residential gas and electricity meters, as well as any signal that requires continuous reading while maintaining a long battery life. https://y-drip.com Follow the development process here: https://hackaday.io/project/191398-ydrip

Wow! Would love to compare this to Flume! Been using it for some time but can’t quite catch one tiny leak I have

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:14 AM UTC

flybrand wrote: post #392

TooSmugToFail wrote: post #391

We started in 2017 aiming to build world’s best video headset for drone pilots ("FPV goggles", for those in the know). Based in Europe, where we do all our R&D and MFG. Surviving these last three years was, well, as hard as you can expect. Raising money was a challenge (hardware, in Europe, Central and Eastern Europe). We started scaling MFG just as the COVID started closing down China and crippling supply chains. Fr…

What’s the name?

Post by bryanmgreen » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:18 AM UTC

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #342

bryanmgreen wrote: post #273

Hand-blown titanium crystal glassware for whisk(e)y and spirits. Produced in Europe by a glass factory that has been operating since the late 1700's. PG's mantra "do things that don't scale" has been a great inspiration. I wanted something comparable to high-end wine stemware and it shockingly did not exist, so I designed it during COVID. This is my first physical goods venture and my goodness, it comes with a lot of…

"Lots of good advice simply doesn't scale." —Paul.Graham I definitely think "Made by Humans" will become an increasingly-popular product highlight. Beautiful effort. Wish I still served alcohol =D

Post by rkagerer » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #166

aquaphile wrote: post #23

We make the world's best baby car seats. https://www.kioma.us Fatherly Magazine calls it "The Car Seat of the Future". It's been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable. It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model…

The price is insane man. The best of the best car seat according to lots of reviews(Cybex Anoris-T) is "only" £599, your thing is significantly more and I don't see why it's any better. Edit: sorry, let me rephrase that - not insane, just hard to justify.

Post by EzTargut » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:29 AM UTC

aquaphile wrote: post #470

Jun8 wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One big problem with all car seats is that after 3-4 you have to dump an expensive and still usable seat. And I mean dump, since they cannot be donated AFAIK. It would be great if the seat can be disassembled to be used for another purpose.

Think of the dollar cost amortization! You need to have more children to average down the cost. So you can use the car seat across 3-4 kids. In all seriousness, the problem with donations is people are afraid of attached liability. It is a shame, because car seats can often be used for several years across multiple children. If you keep it in the family and use it across your own kids, everyone is cool with it. As so…