10 ways to know if your product idea is worth pursuing 

Thank you for sharing that! Glad you are loving them:)

Thank you!

That's great to hear that you've beta launched in a small market and that you're getting orders! That's the right way to do it:) Selling first is always the best, lowest risk way to go!

Awesome! Thank you, glad you liked it!

Thank you! I rarely see an existing patent that can't be worked around. Most parents are quite narrow and infringement can be avoided usually with a design change. I think researching actual competing products that really made it to market is more useful. While I think parents are important I think most entrepreneurs focus on them too much.

Yes sir Thank You again @23sike24

Great question! I'd say it depends on how you sold them. If these were sold in retail stores then your most important metric is reorders. If you sold these online, then the question becomes can you find more customers? Are customers happy with the product? Why do you think it took 6 months to sell 1k units? The truth is the problem could be your marketing or sales strategy, and maybe nothing to do with the product or whether customers like it. Almost every single entrepreneur I've worked with underestimates the challenges of marketing and sales.

Thanks for the comment! Yeah we enginerds like to focus just on the technical aspects. That's fine when you work as an engineer for someone else, but obviously not if you want to build your own hardware business:)

@@PredictableDesigns Do you have any horror stories of working with companies that had primarily a software / SaaS business and thought they could just jump into doing something hardware also? There was one we worked with from years ago that was a mess, and we were helping with the 2.0 version of the hardware / firmware platform!

Thanks for sharing your concern, which is a very common one I hear. First of all, no one steals unproven ideas. Instead they wait until it's a big success then they copy it. But by then you have a headstart. Chinese companies are great at manufacturing, and they're just okay at innovation. But they are utterly horrible at marketing and sales. They can't sell anything in western countries without others doing the selling. For example, I get dozens of cold marketing emails every week from Chinese companies trying to sell me services or products. You know how every single one of them starts? They all start with "Hello dear" or "Hello my friend". Then they only get worse from there. They're clueless about marketing to the US and other English markets. That's your big advantage even as a small company. You could give one of those Chinese companies a million dollar marketing budget and they'd just send even more spammy "Hello dear" emails. This is why execution is more important than the idea. You have to just out execute everyone else. Finally, you might consider a patent, or at least file a US Provisional Patent Application. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the comment! I'll be happy to take a look at your product and share my thoughts with you if you join my Hardware Academy program. predictabledesigns.com/academy/

Sounds like you found a potential nice hole in the market, great job and good luck! Love your RU-vid photo, I'm huge fan of Albert:)