Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware Product

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A former software engineer recounts the manufacturing and quality-control crises—brightness shortfalls, tariff spikes, misprinted tooling, and scraping knobs—encountered while shipping 500 units of a high-lumen floor lamp.

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