Milestone: Request for Quotes sent to Manufacturers

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I sent the design and tender documents to the three manufacturers today. Since I didn’t have any industry experience, that was actually a huge milestone for me and the business. I should be celebrating.

Instead, my monkey brain wants to think about the potential worst case scenarios: the manufacturers not wanting to work with me or the quotes coming in way too high to have a business case.

In a weird way, I welcomed the distraction of having to figure out widgets and custom theme issues with one of my new websites today. IT help desks are starting to become my best friends!

Cost of moulds vs creating more waste

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Realised this morning that I can’t take the cheaper mould option for one of my products because I’ll likely create too many extra parts the customer won’t need – resulting in more waste in the process. This is obviously against the mission of the company.

Closed out Microsoft 365 ticket. Good enough for the moment. The help desk guy refunded me for accidentally adding another user. We can’t seem to fix the final issue, and I don’t have the patience to work on it any longer.

Food analogies for the design phase

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Provided more feedback for design of Product #2. He completely understood my question about “toasters and bread” versus “hotdogs and buns.” He even answered me using the same terminology!

Spent another 1.5 hours with Microsoft help desk trying to fix email issues. Ugh! Not fixed yet. I think we’ve already spend about five hours just trying to get my new business email to work.