How to Take Your Hardware Product to Market Fast

Hardware is hard. Unlike software, hardware has so many moving parts that make it difficult to start and scale — industrial design, electrical design, mechanical design, firmware development, manufacturing, fulfillment, shipping and more. CNN reported that 84% of Kickstarter projects shipped late. However, very rarely do people talk about how to ship hardware fast.

Kickstarter’s top projects: When they shipped

In this article, I am going to talk about best practices of making hard products that can significantly reduce development and manufacturing time, and get them to the hands of your customers quickly, even within months.

What I mean about “ship” is to receive your mass-produced(MP’ed) units in the United States from China.

You may ask “Why China?” Despite the US-China trade war and news about manufacturing exodus, China is still the #1 country providing the lowest manufacturing costs in 2019, according to US News.

U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42135.pdf)

Never reinvent the wheel

Find manufacturers that make similar products to yours. It cuts down development time and money. If you have a hardware business idea, trust me, you can find at least one…