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I think (perhaps unfairly) that these fun hardware projects are often parents like ourselves harking back to a day when exactly that sort of thing was absolutely fascinating... but that's not the world we live in now. Which one is going to be more rewarding: building a smartphone, or making an app? It's the latter.

That's not to say hardware stuff can't thrive, just perhaps not at the scale venture capital would require.



> Which one is going to be more rewarding: building a smartphone, or making an app?

The counterpoint to this would be: if your child built an app and showed it to their friends, would they be impressed? How about if they built a smartphone?


They'd probably be more impressed with the app. They could all download it to their phone and use it together!


But they already have dozens of similar social apps... it would need to be unique, not just another chat app.




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