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0 pointsknowaveragejoe1y ago0 comments

Both of these examples, and others, sound like an underserved market.

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Exactly. This is what happens when a market is so small they can overcharge for terrible technology.

I figure a couple of SWEs could make a startup that completely disrupts these industries with objectively superior technology.

quickthrowman1y ago

Technology doesn’t matter, it’s all about relationships between dealers and manufacturers (or dealer/distributor/manufacturer, I am unfamiliar with this particular industry.) That holds true both for HVAC and pool equipment (and fire alarm systems, irrigation, etc etc)

If you can’t sell your product to the dealers because there in bed with the incumbents and the incumbent products generate service call work for the dealer, it doesn’t matter how good the tech is.

This is a people problem, not a technology problem. It can’t be solved by a couple programmers.

xvector1y ago

You offer direct to consumer sales and cut out the dealer-distributor corruption pipeline - like Tesla, Nest, etc.

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xvector1y ago

Exactly. This is what happens when a market is so small they can overcharge for terrible technology.

I figure a couple of SWEs could make a startup that completely disrupts these industries with objectively superior technology.

quickthrowman1y ago

This is a people problem, not a technology problem. It can’t be solved by a couple programmers.

xvector1y ago

You offer direct to consumer sales and cut out the dealer-distributor corruption pipeline - like Tesla, Nest, etc.

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