[mik3y]

Lovely read, and great to see a happy ending - I remember your previous blogs here.

As a sometime-bootstrapper and having failed at a previous hardware startup, I can relate to many of the emotions you narrated through. It may be too early, but my biggest curiosity is whether you think you will bootstrap something again?

(In my case, after the hardware business and some time off, I found that taking a swing at a “pure software” idea was the right balance for me, after the considerable challenges and occasional joys of building physical things..)

[mtlynch]

Thanks for reading!

>you think you will bootstrap something again?

Yes, definitely. Not hardware again because I think getting to the scale where you can use external vendors is so difficult and risky that it requires more specialized hardware expertise or VC backing.

I'm going to start with educational products because I liked my brief experience with that and never had time during TinyPilot, but I'd eventually like to build a SaaS that I can grow in a calm, sustainable way.