Highly recommend it because they give a lot of details and if you start from the beginning you can really see how they learned how difficult it was in going into the space. The multiple visits, quality control, the issues with who owns what, and where they lost money.
But those are the entertaining ones innit. What fun is it to read a blog (like OP) that says 'yeah we hired a bunch of experienced professionals and we didn't have any problems'. No, we want to read stories of 'so I forgot about one detail and the manufacturer completely misunderstood us so I had to fly to China and spend 100k to get it fixed and it still was 3 months late'.
And employing all those people doesn't guarantee success, but it does guarantee your failures will cost a lot.
You'd probably want to only attempt making something like this as a vanity project, where it matters less if you fail, and thereby half the fun is navigating the path to success by yoursel[f/ves].
But, just for completeness sake, the list of people who got blindsided by the con artist who was ultimately behind a lot of the crazy included both our experienced local on-the-ground project manager and the factory owner.
Why did you go to China, as a two men shop? And not choosing a local company nearby?
And how much experience do both of you have on the hardware / manufacturing aide of things? And running global supply chains (because that's what you have, regardless of production volume)?