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I just build my first hardware prototype ✅ I've been building a SaaS for 5 years and always wanted to explore hardware. Now I have the money to finally do it. Excited to find out if this can become a real product.

Lukas Hermann

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Aravind Babuji8 days ago

Looking forward to seeing it like this.

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

So looking forward!

Dan ⚡️8 days ago

am I watching Lukas Tech Tips?!

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

Haven't dropped it yet!

Arne Wiese7 days ago

I'd really love to have a workshop set up like that 🥹

Keno Basedow6 days ago

Schön zu sehen, wie Ihr euch weiter entwickelt. Viel Erfolg bei der Einführung eures Hardware-Produktes.

David Dales8 days ago

3:20 that laugh is such good vibes! Gotta join a team of engineers again soon. :) Hope the right people find your machine.

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

It was so much fun! I'm not a big group person, but I really enjoy having a few good people around.

Jaisal 👋7 days ago

man this is so cool! love to see it

Thomas Sanlis 🥐6 days ago

Suuuuper nice!! I’d love to see more hardware projects like this For you it makes a lot of sense since it can be used with stage timer! I hope I’ll see your updates in my timeline 😬

Khalid Warsame8 days ago

You’re even wearing the tshirt. Dedication right there.

Petar Zayakov8 days ago

🔥

Nico8 days ago

Oh damn this is so cool!! Really hope I can nerd around with hardware one day, it looks so fun!! :D

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

There's a 80% chance that nothing becomes of it. But then alone was worth it :)

Alexander Zeitler8 days ago

Maybe I need to talk to these guys.

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

Are you dissatisfied with the build quality? 😄

Alexander Zeitler8 days ago

I want to build electronic stuff around our products.

Dmytro Krasun8 days ago

It was a lot of fun, yes? You can probably add it to your pricing page and announce it on the main landing to get more testers?

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

It was great fun! Even if it fails in the end, worth it.

BlockChan7 days ago

Badass

Lucas Ramos7 days ago

Oh that is so cool! I hope to see more bootstrapped products having cool hardward like that, congrats! Awesome inspiration

Brent Brookler8 days ago

Love the idea and makes me think of some hardware ideas for one of my products 💡that maybe now is the time to do…

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

Very good copycat protection.

Magenta Qin7 days ago

Pretty cool. I’m currently in Shenzhen for a conference. If you want to produce your prototype product, don’t hesitate to find the supply chain here.

Lukas Hermann7 days ago

That would be the long game. I'm solo bootstrapped, so not before 2028 I think.

dennisdoer7 days ago

Hammer! Viel Erfolg damit 🚀🚀

Benjamin Thorstensen8 days ago

Love it, and also validates my gut feeling of going more and more into hardware :D

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

What would you build?

Benjamin Thorstensen8 days ago

oh I just started with the basics, soldering, basic pcb work etc...

pankaj8 days ago

why not use an ipad with offline app? and make it so only app is accessible.

Lukas Hermann8 days ago

People can do that right now. And whoever is happy with that won't need this thing anyway.

IronRed | SandHive8 days ago

I see your first prototype as a harbinger of unstoppable momentum, keep riding that wave, for time waits not.

Ottorino Bruni7 days ago

This looks like a fun jump from SaaS into hardware. How different the iteration cycle feels compared to software?

Lukas Hermann7 days ago

I don't know, this is literally step zero 😄

Arne Wiese7 days ago

@grok what does the mysterious box do?

Mandar Wagh8 days ago

congrats. the first one working is a genuinely great feeling. the jump from SaaS is that copy number two is the hard one: every part can be in spec and the assembly still misses, because tolerances add along the chain instead of cancelling. what did you build?

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