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Highway1

Company blog · highway1.iohardwarestartups

Highway1 is the company blog at highway1.io, writing about hardware and startups. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Develop your prototype into a product ready for fabrication at scale”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters point hardware startups to Highway1, a company and accelerator that helps with the practical details of manufacturing a physical product, including Shenzhen manufacturing strategy.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Develop your prototype into a product ready for fabrication at scale
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. sam · 2013-11-26
    You might consider checking out these companies. They help folks at your stage with all the nitty gritty details of manufacturing a physical product: http://www.dragoninnovation.com/ http://highway1.io/ http://makesimp.ly/

    Comment linking /

    on “What Every Hardware Startup Should Know About the Electronic Component Landscape”
  2. sohkamyung · 2015-10-08

    Submitted Bunnie huang Talks Engineering: The realities of manufacturing as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. primigenus · 2015-06-17
    Highway1 ( http://highway1.io ) is doing a great job of helping startups figure out how to get their manufacturing strategy set up. The advice and insight the two companies I worked with in their most recent cohort (Spinn Coffee and Game of Drones) received was absolutely essential to getting off the ground, so I'm expecting to see more of this kind of incubator/accelerator in the future.

    Comment linking /

    on “An Insider’s Guide to Shenzhen Manufacturing”
  4. tocomment · 2013-09-19

    Submitted Develop your prototype into a product ready for fabrication at scale as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. squiggy22 · 2014-12-03

    Submitted Highway1 - For Hardware Startups as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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