Boldport shot off a number of tweets on bringing projects to market – say via Kickstarter – beginning with:

Why did your "hardware startup" Kickstarter fail? Because none of your prototyping skills are required for production.

— Boldport (@boldport) May 2, 2016

He went on to break the issues down further into fields of skill, prototyping, and production, a la:

Skill: iterating quickly
Prototyping: free next-day delivery
Production: 12+6 week lead time and shipping from China

— Boldport (@boldport) May 2, 2016

Skill: support
Prototyping: wha?
Production: oh shit.

— Boldport (@boldport) May 2, 2016

I won’t reprint them all here – because thankfully GitHub user Anuj Deshpande compiled them all into this handy one-pager, “so that I can use this in future slidedecks.”

“5 days folding 5k boxes isn’t fun. Where do I even keep them?!” Too true…

Thanks to Anuj for compiling and sharing these tweets of wisdom!