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Think your hardware startup will actually ship? Hardware is hard.
Startup survival rate in Hardware:
1 in 20 ideas survive the roast
Roast my Hardware idea →TL;DR — Why Hardware ideas fail
The brutal patterns our AI spots in every doomed Hardware pitch
- 01Manufacturing lead times will push your launch 12 months beyond your estimate
- 02Every hardware revision costs $50K-$500K — and you'll need at least three
- 03Returns, warranties, and support costs will destroy your margins at scale
- 04Factories have minimum order quantities that will exhaust your funding
How the roast works
01
Submit your idea
Describe your Hardware startup in one sentence. No deck required.
02
Pick a persona
Choose your executioner — Brutal VC, AI Overlord, Bitter Ex-CoFounder, and more.
03
Get destroyed
Receive a savagely honest roast with a burn score and a pivot suggestion.
Free to use — 5 roasts per day, no account required
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