u/Ishanatur

First I can't believe it took me so long to find this sub. Been reading through and it's an actual goldmine. So I'm hoping someone can help

Context: My sister and I had an idea for a product and as a PM my first instinct was to make sure there was product market fit. Got a development firm to help us prototype.

We raised ~$100k on Kickstarter and now get about $10k a month in pre-order sales.

Now it's a year later and we still don't have a product to give to customers. It feels like every week theres a new set of problems. The most pressing is that the person who was writing our firmware has left the firm we were working with.

We like the firm, but they are an incredibly small team and I'm beginning to suspect that haven't done something like this before. Plus we're not their only client so there's a maximum amount of time they can dedicate to us.

I'm freaking out because customers are getting (understandably) upset and we're quickly running out of funds. And I keep feeling like things are stalling and I cant diagnose whats wrong.

My biggest problem is that because neither of us are technical, I feel like I'm just twiddling my thumbs while my dreams are going up in flames. So here's my question

What's the best thing I can do right now?

• Try to learn more about hardware so that I can talk to engineers better (I have no idea how long that will take or where to even start please recommend courses I can take)
• Try to find a technical co-founder
• Hire an in-house engineer
• Hire another firm?

My fear with the last 3 is that it's just borrowing more of the same problem. I don't know enough to interview and hire a technical person and so it may just be more of the same.

This post is a bit of a rant because I'm at my wits end. And honestly I'm just glad to find a community of people who understand.

This may be a dumb question, but how do you guys record content where the goal is for someone to watch you do something over the span of multiple hours?

For example I want to create a video where I try to build and launch a business in a weekend.

Do I just have a phone/camera recording me through the whole thing? If yes how do you edit it?

I tried just starting and stopping and recording my screen at the same time.

It produced seven hours of video. 😭😭😭

Which means I’ll probably never post it because I don’t know that I have 20 hours to watch and edit the whole thing.

So I’m wondering is there a better workflow for this kind of video? Hopefully I’m missing something super obvious.