Good day everyone!
On a recent inventors’ meetup here on the forum someone suggested “Invent with me” podcast, which happened to be a big hit for me. Two guys are describing their inventions and stages they went through.
The question I (as a solder-stage inventor) came to is this - how does one evaluate entry barriers? As we all know, in CENTS framework Entry is the barrier between your idea/execution and billions of competitors rushing to have a piece of your discovered market.
Thing is I do not feel that my invention now has any descent entry barrier. I have a goal - an invention I eventually want to build, and a set of stages I follow - smaller inventions, easier to build. But still what I am making now already involves electronics, hydraulics, some calculus-level math in the programming. Compared to what the guys in “Invent with me” did, I seem to be somewhere on orbit and those guys speak about paying $1700 to some Fiverr guy for what I do on my leasure time.
For me I am just moving with the flow. I need electronics? Here is “Blink” sketch in Arduino. I need to measure humidity? Youtube suggest us to add voltage divider and measure relative resistance between two electrodes. Each step is easily learned in one-coffee-cup time and instantly implemented in the growing prototype. It feels like almost everyone can catch up with me in a matter of hours.
So how to estimate, how high a wall did I build?
On a recent inventors’ meetup here on the forum someone suggested “Invent with me” podcast, which happened to be a big hit for me. Two guys are describing their inventions and stages they went through.
The question I (as a solder-stage inventor) came to is this - how does one evaluate entry barriers? As we all know, in CENTS framework Entry is the barrier between your idea/execution and billions of competitors rushing to have a piece of your discovered market.
Thing is I do not feel that my invention now has any descent entry barrier. I have a goal - an invention I eventually want to build, and a set of stages I follow - smaller inventions, easier to build. But still what I am making now already involves electronics, hydraulics, some calculus-level math in the programming. Compared to what the guys in “Invent with me” did, I seem to be somewhere on orbit and those guys speak about paying $1700 to some Fiverr guy for what I do on my leasure time.
For me I am just moving with the flow. I need electronics? Here is “Blink” sketch in Arduino. I need to measure humidity? Youtube suggest us to add voltage divider and measure relative resistance between two electrodes. Each step is easily learned in one-coffee-cup time and instantly implemented in the growing prototype. It feels like almost everyone can catch up with me in a matter of hours.
So how to estimate, how high a wall did I build?
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