THE VIDEO SHELF · hardware startup
Oxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!
A two-hour Oxide and Friends session answering questions after shipping the first Oxide rack. Topics include making hardware as a startup and why Oxide chose illumos.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as Oxide's own explanation of how they ship hardware as a startup and why they picked illumos.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Oxide Computer Company
- Topic
- hardware startup
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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