As a hardware startup founder, working on IoT devices, I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it. It's great to see interest and it's great to have alternatives to building our cloud backends ourselves, but I would love to see more actual IoT devices actually navigating the messiness that is going from prototype to product. While this solves a problem, relative to tooling, navigating the China (or US manufacturing), and funding, the last thing we are worried about is building our backend system. Granted, our team has experience building distributed systems and full stack hardware <-> software experience...
Seems to be a ton of 'me toos' in this space and I would love to see the traction statistics they get from actual IoT device builders. Most IoT device builders fancy themselves becoming the platform instead of just an accessory...