Very interested in your first rabbit hole. Which servos did you use? Which gears? For me, it would be to use with an action camera. How many hours did you spend on it before you were satisfied? I've seen some arduino-based projects to do that, but servos look quite bulky... and with the right gears, very little torque / power should be necessary. But i have not spent the time yet.
For any 20+ years-old readers here, if you ever think/dream about starting a business, you should learn from OP that cash and savings is paramount for freedom and creating a business later on.
> product-focused dev with 10 years experience at a-list startups [...] I don’t have enough cash saved up for significant runway. I’m 35 with family and living in the US.
The earlier you start, the more you accumulate, the more flexibility you have later. I had 12 months runway when I started mine, and it is so valuable not to look for investors and just work on your product/company when you feel pretty confident.
I bootstrapped my small software business with savings. I had about a year of runway. IMHO this is definitely the way to do it if you can. Don't even think about using your credit card. Obviously that doesn't help OP much. Sorry.
I guess as an engineer, building the product itself seems to be the easy part. How do you market it, find potential customers, or indeed KNOW at all that your product is a winning one?
Obviously uncertainty is a part of every entrepreneur, but I would love to get opinions from fellow engineers
>The Mac App Store should already be safe, as users are free to download and install apps direct from developers
Not a Mac user/dev here. If I am not going through the store, if I don't use xcode to sign my executable, won't MacOS force the user to go through cryptic command line changes to let them install my software?
Unless it's changed recently, it's just a right-click and then Open on the app. Older versions let you select radio box in the Security tab in the settings app to allow all apps.
That sounds misleadingly easy. The misleading part is that if you yep to open it the normal way, instead of getting an error that tells you that you can do that, you get an error that makes it sound like the developer did something wrong and there's nothing you can do.
I have a bank account with about 5K euros on it. I have not touched it in 20 years (no deposits, no withdrawals). I earn tiny dividends on it each year.
I got a request from the bank 18 months ago to provide my tax return to them. I said no, why? They threatened me to confiscate my account (orally, on the phone). I replied I understand you need to ask info from me, by law. But if you don't get the information it's ok too, afaik. And there is no possible way that I can launder anything if the money is just sitting there.
It's now called "a dormant account" and they will take your money :)
Look it up for your country. You are about to lose that money :)
Friendly suggestion, stop playing hardball and give them the paperwork they seek. Dormant accounts can be either 'honest' ones (you) or accounts that remain open waiting to funnel the moneys from that fraud, etc.
Timezones are the bane of programmers' existences. It also can quickly become a UX nightmare as you have found out.
My rule of thumb is that the time should always be displayed in the user's timezone especially if their location is specified ie if a parcel is being delivered to location X, the delivery time should be displayed for the timezone of location X (and the UX should specify the timezone for additional clarity).
Someone did that to my old HP printer a couple times, but there were settings to only accept emails from specific addresses that I eventually turned on.
Well you can customise it with the brother printer. Brother itself registers your unique email id against your registered device, hence it has to be globally unique.
