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Congrats on the launch! How much of the component selection pain is actually on the supply chain side? Like, engineers pick parts, but then procurement has to source them without really understanding the technical tradeoffs. Have you talked to purchasing teams about this?

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We're learning a lot here, since this always happened AFTER we handed over the BOM. It certainly seems like a pain, particularly when a supplier ends up being a critical bottleneck (always late, overcharging, etc). The number one requested feature from these folks is a way to validate an alternate component, something they can use for themselves BEFORE passing it over to us design engineers for approval (heard some pretty spicy takes on doing this, apparently working with EE's isn't always sunshine and rainbows...)

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