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HARD90 68/90: Entering the final sprint preparing for our crowdfunding launch! Re-writing our landing page to be top-to-bottom complete. Have an EPIC Youtube video in the can, just waiting for the right day to post it.

HUGE congratulations to Impulse on achieving UL certification! UL verifies complete safety in all failure modes. It's a pain even with regular products--Impulse Labs can melt steel if left unchecked! SERIOUS ENGINEERING to deliver that power safely, bravo Sam D'Amico

HARD90 69/90: I'm delivering 2 products in this 90 day sprint: Both a MagSafe stand and a pocketable Airplay screen. I've personally engineered the stand, stressing over every detail, function and feel as I built dozens of prototypes. For the screen, I'm doing more delegating:

Impulse labs is now the first battery assisted stove able to legally sell into nationwide restaurant chains Get ready for stripper pole growth rate Ray Fernando 🤣

You can apply for Hong Kong’s Top Talent visa if you either 1. Graduated from a prestigious university 2. Made more than $319k USD last year It’s like—if you’re smart or rich, come on in! Founders and Funders welcome! Somehow this makes me chuckle 🤭

HARD 70/90: Not every update is going to be a banger. If you’re starting your own “I’m doing X in Y days and posting about it” challenge, keep that in mind. Magic comes from showing the boring times as much as from the highlights and lowlights.

HARD90 71/90: My first hard failure in managing a vendor. I had many in-person conversations with our airplay screen vendor about our needs. We all sat in the room and nodded that we understood the requirements. I sent the files I promised and had some WeChat discussion about

HARD90 72/90: Hardware isn't hard but it does require discipline. It requires planning out each step from prototype to production and correctly estimating how long you should spend on each one, given customer and quality needs. Then you need to do the plan. The most common

HARD90 73/90: YesAnd.tech website update to feature our weekly hardware vlogs! Thanks Nick Hong for shipping this. Hopefully this makes it much easier to keep up with our brutally honest reports of shipping hardware stupid fast!!

If you’re thinking about delaying your launch, re-read this quote until you’re certain you have the right reasons.

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HARD90 74/90: Popped over to Shenzhen and spent the day with our screen vendor and all is well again! So much engineering communication can only really be done in person between Americans and Chinese. Pointing at computer screens, drawing on paper, demonstrating with 3d

HARD90 75/90: Updated the factory design with our own industrial design. Reviewed with them and have another revision complete. Hoping to release for sample soon.

HARD90 76/90: We felt it was important to update our second screen to have buttons in the top right and a USB port in the lower middle, mimicking the iPhone and therefore being much more intuitive. HOWEVER, I'm getting some pushback from the factory engineer on this update--it

There’s a simple rule that predicts the success of emergent technologies They make things easier and accessible for larger numbers of people. Tech is the true ‘power to the people’ It explains everything from Win95, FB, ChatGPT, and it’s the fundamental thesis of Vercel

HARD90 77/90: My little office in Shenzhen. Doesn’t look like much, doesn’t need to. The magic of Shenzhen, like any city, is in its people and the ecosystem they build. Today I got my latest (and almost final!) prototype delivered. 5 day lead time, just a few hundred

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HARD90 78/90: Some days are good days and some days are really hard. Updated website looking fantastic. Product design locked and final quoting expected tomorrow. Launch videos shot and in final edits. Just need to wrap up a few last details and we are go for launch. But

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HARD90 79/90: Today my mom told me she really wants our product. I've launched over a dozen products in my career, won 7 design awards and total combined sales over $100M... And this is the very first time she's told me she genuinely can't wait to get one of my products 😭🥰