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Actually, I did bootstrap a hardware product: www.growguard.net. Agree, it's not the best looking product, but engineering, designing and puting it in manufacturing cost less than 5k!

A couple of years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of another hw startup (FTTH space), we did get this thing off teh ground for less than 300k and it is now doing very well and one of the top-3 in it's niche

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It looks really cool, and I'm extremely impressed that you did it for less than 5k.

I think I found an interesting problem to solve, and while I'm looking at software-only solutions, I believe that it would be better solved by (simple) hardware.

Your post gives me some encouragement to try it out :) (not right now, but I think I'll be in position to do it next year).

Edit: I see you had both a "Show HN" and a blog post, it's a shame I didn't see them earlier and they didn't get traction here.

Show HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474132

Blog Post:

http://hwstartup.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/how-i-sold-2000-of...

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