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Comment by throwawaymath | Hacker News Reader

I implore you to start a company if you're at all interested in working on this further. Seriously, please consider productizing it.

I would pay thousands of dollars for a polished version of this in my home, especially if it matched the style and decor of my dining room furniture.

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People will make fun of us for this

No offense intended for this project personally, this is really cool. But what was that joke about how since most founders are young single males, most tech companies make products nobody really needs that are just designed to replace your Mom?

Thanks for the encouragement!

Making big decisions over the next 1 month as I have 3 major projects. My (already popular) website, this dishwasher, and my finance app.

Did mention this thread to my co-engineer, I'm pretty sure he is going to make this a reality.

The biggest question regarding the dishwasher is-

Do we go luxury and expensive since plumbing is already a multi thousand dollar requirement? Or, should we go commodity, and have users attach to their kitchen sink(portable dishwasher style)?

How much would you pay for the dishwasher, table, chairs, electrical and plumbing? (full service)

I'll have follow up details in ~1 month if you want to follow on Efficiency Is Everything.

Go luxury, your clients will want high quality and integration with other IoT systems, leaning to your company growing as a luxury brand. Go do-it-yourself and you'll be piddling with too many small dollar problems to get ahead.

And you can always go for the common man later. The same strategy Tesla is doing. It isn't too uncommon.

Going to second 'go luxury'. This is an expensive thing, and there's a weird effect where the bigger the dollar value your transaction the better you get treated. Moreover if it's complex it basically needs expert install if you don't want to be flooded with annoying people who simply aren't qualified to install your stuff.

Same.

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