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If you're not going to manufacture the product yourself, have you considered either:

- doing a Kickstarter to get people to prepay? That way at least your first batch can be paid for before you shell out any money, OR

- just giving away the design so at least your product sees the light of day, even if there's no financial gain for you?

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> - just giving away the design so at least your product sees the light of day, even if there's no financial gain for you?

Do you work for free?

fpvracing has already worked for free: spent effort to design a product, without any revenue, and apparently now having given up hope of getting any revenue.

I made two suggestions: one of which might provide a path to revenue, and another which, whilst providing no revenue, would also cost nothing, and require virtually no additional effort beyond that already expended.

It's just one of many options, but do you put your heart and soul into something then not let it see the light of day after you find out you can't profit?

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