Goodbye Amazon
This is one of those posts that would be more impactful with the Amazon emails embedded in the post. When you can have the bad guy in the piece playing their own part it really resonates, if you&#x27;re reading PA consider just putting in their responses to your questions.<p>The only nit on this is this bit: <i>&quot;The only way to meet their demands would have been to mass-produce huge volumes of speakers featuring no customizations. And the only way to make that economically feasible would have been to sacrifice our high standards of quality across the board. Needless to say, we&#x27;re not going to do that.&quot;</i><p>I find I can&#x27;t help but react when someone presents a problem as unsolvable (it triggers my &#x27;hey solve this!&#x27; button). And so when they state that this is &quot;impossible&quot; my first question is, &quot;How have you tried to solve it?&quot;, &quot;What do you consider as constraints? How do you verify those constraints?&quot;<p>I agree completely with the idea that being craftsmanship to bespoke products is an excellent goal, and if we can come up with ways to do that effectively we can enable a manufacturing renaissance in places like the US. As a result I see calling this problem &#x27;unsolvable&#x27; as a challenge (it may be unsolvable but if it truly is, then it may mean that bringing back this sort of work to the US will never be economically feasible and I am not ready to accept that yet)<p>In terms of worthwhile startup projects to pursue, I consider this one of the big ones. Creating the tools and infrastructure around craftspeople to enable them to economically apply their craft at scale.