Would you mind sending me your Ai Resume? We could do a virtual onsite and get a feeling for what it would be like to virtually work with you and see if your Ai contributes positively to the culture of our team
> and you were well known to be a slacker?
> what classes of problem
If people are going to lie on their resume there isn't a whole lot of anything you can do to fix that at the resume evaluation level. So many resumes have 100x skills where they say they know some language because they happen to walk by a room where someone might have been looking at the wikipedia page describing someone who might have used the language once accidentally.
If you can't relate the impact / accomplishment of the candidate for your job to your company,then that just speaks to a low quality resume. It should be obvious to any reviewer why what you did is relevant to their interest.
The reason why impact matters is that in some sense it should be theoretically reproducible. "Saved 100s of engineering hours by fixing some nonsense" which if true should speak to someone who can ostensibly save time while also understand the meaning of their work.
Customers want a solution, but without actual proof of customers willing to pay or do anything about it, how can you truly know? Because of companies awkward financing, the situation is very similar to:
- Assuming tractors don't exist -
"Would people go through the effort to ship a tractor to their farm, learn how to use it, and either pay you to repair it or figure it out themselves ..while also paying you per field plowed."
Like, it seems like an obvious 'yes' but this is obviously my framing, not theirs, and maybe I am completely off base and what I am offering to them is truly a truck with a plow and not a tractor that they think will constantly get stuck in the mud.
The project is a bit rough because of its clean room requirement where there needs to be substantial build / testing to ensure a near zero contamination rate.
I could build a POC or show some video of how the product would work. What would you want to do with this?
Automating Clean-room plant propagation using robots
There are about 2-3+ Billion plants cloned in laboratory conditions per year which are all done by hand. I am in the process of trying to develop a MVP to automate this task while also getting customer conversations to get early adopters.
What I am struggling with is that I don't know if I should focus on developing the MVP which will cost 20k-40k & 4-6 months to develop or put in place a pilot program to get customers willing to buy the machine / pay up front before I start developing. Hardware startups are rough usually because their MVP takes so long to develop.
I am currently bootstrapping while I am pushing for more conversations trying to do both at once. I could personally finance the venture, but it seems like a poor move to just take on all the risk personally? I have am setting up conversations with a few VCs, but that is a month out.
I'm working on this full time at the moment. I have a couple people who I have talked to who could be co-founders but nothing has materialized yet. So I am just all over the place at this stage in the process.
I spoke to 4-5 potential customers and 2-3 of which are 'interested' in what I have but seem only interested in the 'validation' stage which only comes up after the huge personal investment on my end.
Adam Savage has done everything, but he's still a little bit behind on practical 3D printing. I think as of 2~ years ago he said he still wasn't 'up' on his CAD programs.
He did get a new Nylon FDM machine and a few other things, but he isn't so much a software design person. Mr. Savage has a huge bias towards using their hands to solve their problems and I wouldn't take his work style as a referendum on the utility of these other tools.