Ask HN: Cofounder and CTO of a Hardware Startup asking how to leave gracefully
Reasons to leave: 1) My expertise is in a coding, and I joined the team because they lacked it. In initial days, electronics, mechanical and software was split amoung us. But now one of the Co-Founder has shifted to business plans and other to operations. Now I am the only one responsible for the entire mechanical, electronics and software. WHich is not my expertise and my output is very low when doing things out of my expertise.
2)We are working on an outdated product and technology and I am not excited about the work. I am not learning anything new. The product we are trying to develop, is there in industry for about the last 30 years and the market is already dominated by huge companies. We do this just because it was the first product we sold and there are a couple of customers.
3) Non scalability: The product is non scalable and each must be custom made as per the requirement of the client.
4) Co Founders not looking into the future and big growth. They are not aware of what is happening in our domain. One of the cofounder is concentrating in business. He never talks to any of customers. But spends his entire time making business plans to impress a couple of mentors and to possibly raise money.