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Zach Supalla
Personal blog · atomsandbits.io/phardwarestartupsbusiness
Zach Supalla writes Atoms and Bits, a personal blog at atomsandbits.io about hardware, startups and business. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hardware/Software Business Models”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its argument that traditional hardware purchases do not support software investments, since devices increasingly deliver software. The post covers hardware-software business models.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays and discussions about hardware/software businesses - how they work, how to run them, and how to scale them. Maybe hardware doesn’t have to be so hard.
Most-linked posts?
- Hardware/Software Business Models2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Repeat after me: "Traditional hardware purchases do not support software investments", as Zach Supalla so decisively put it ( https://www.atomsandbits.io/p/hardware-software-business-mod... ). You can not ask for cloud-enabled conveniences, as well as bug fixes, security updates, and product improvements for years to come for a one time fee. Increasingly, devices are a delivery mechanism for software, and one way or…
Comment linking /p/hardware-software-business-models
on “reMarkable 2”Submitted Particle was me and I was it: On leaving the company I founded as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware/Software Business Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware is hard. Does it have to be? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion