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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Article See new posts Conversation Jiahao Lin @davidlinjiahao A Beginners Guide to Manufacturing in China 1 5 16 1.8K You're probably going to waste your first $100,000 in China. I know I did. Countless founders fly there with a dream, expecting to return with 10,000 units. But instead, return with a shorter runway. I spent the past year in and out of Shenzhen, visited every major ODM, manufactured everything from glasses to hats to gloves, produced them at scale and personally carried them across borders. To some people, that sounds extreme. But to me, it was the only way to actually understand what we were building. And once I understood it, the decisions that followed were obvious. I made enough mistakes to fill a textbook. So whether you're already setting up your first production line, or you're still figuring out if hardware is right for you, I want to share 7 lessons that I learned the hard way so that

@davidlinjiahao: A Beginners Guide to Manufacturing in China You're probably going to waste your first $100,000 in China. I know I did. Countless founders fly there with a dream, expecting to return with 10,000 units. But instead, return with a shorter runway. I spent the past year in and out of Shenzhen, visited every major ODM, manufactured everything from glasses to hats to gloves, produced them at scale and personally carried them across borders. To some people, that sounds extreme. But to me, it was the only way to actually understand what we were building. And once I understood it, t

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