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Markets exist for just about anything. The hard part is finding them.

For example: one of the simplest things I've built this year is a device that reads an input and then turns on an LED and sends a message to a connected app (I didn't write the app) when the input changes state.

After I shipped the first one, the customer came back and asked for 10 more and they expect that over time they may need about 100 or so. I can do stuff like this all day long: it's technologically trivial, but world-altering to the people who need it.

My main problem is getting people who need these little machines to know how to find me.



Wow.. what kind of an input? I sometimes want to get back into hardware.


12V signal from an external device.




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