>Would you build another hardware business, or are you going to try for a software business next?
No, I don't think I'd try hardware again.
It's a shame because I learned so much about hardware and selling a physical product, so I do have an edge if I wanted to do something else that involves both hardware and software, but bootstrapping hardware from zero is just so risky. I caught a lot of lucky breaks for it to work out with TinyPilot; but simple one-time events like a manufacturing error or a lost shipments could have sunk the entire company in the first two years.
I'd like to try another educational product. I released a blogging course at the end of 2020. I didn't have time to promote it much because TinyPilot swallowed all my time, but it still has made $10k of profit. I'd like to try something like that again.
But I would also like to build some kind of pure software business if I land on the right idea and the right market for it.
>Would you build another hardware business, or are you going to try for a software business next?
No, I don't think I'd try hardware again.
It's a shame because I learned so much about hardware and selling a physical product, so I do have an edge if I wanted to do something else that involves both hardware and software, but bootstrapping hardware from zero is just so risky. I caught a lot of lucky breaks for it to work out with TinyPilot; but simple one-time events like a manufacturing error or a lost shipments could have sunk the entire company in the first two years.
I'd like to try another educational product. I released a blogging course at the end of 2020. I didn't have time to promote it much because TinyPilot swallowed all my time, but it still has made $10k of profit. I'd like to try something like that again.
But I would also like to build some kind of pure software business if I land on the right idea and the right market for it.