No offense intended for this project personally, this is really cool. But what was that joke about how since most founders are young single males, most tech companies make products nobody really needs that are just designed to replace your Mom?

Making big decisions over the next 1 month as I have 3 major projects. My (already popular) website, this dishwasher, and my finance app.

Did mention this thread to my co-engineer, I'm pretty sure he is going to make this a reality.

The biggest question regarding the dishwasher is-

Do we go luxury and expensive since plumbing is already a multi thousand dollar requirement? Or, should we go commodity, and have users attach to their kitchen sink(portable dishwasher style)?

How much would you pay for the dishwasher, table, chairs, electrical and plumbing? (full service)

I'll have follow up details in ~1 month if you want to follow on Efficiency Is Everything.

The nice part was that it was nearly entirely on me. Didn't have to wait for other people, aside from some shipping.

Prototyping is definitely possible! Wish you the best as well!

I have tried applying to Embedded jobs but I cannot get past HR.

Guess I'm sticking with Electrical Engineering for a little longer.

I'll run down the list of automation I did, hopefully to give you some ideas. Least complex, to complex.

>Kill program, launch program, and press OK. We have a program that crashes often. This quickly kills it(which otherwise requires clicking out of error messages). Then reopens and clicks OK which starts a long boot process.

>Copy, paste, delay, down. Repeat. A slow system could not handle mass copy paste. This was a solution.

>Open PDF file, sign document. Repeat for all docs in a folder. This was nice because after I checked the document in English, I could sign off in all the languages without having to resign manually.

>Showing every permutation of a part based on rules. And presenting it in common english rather than &A78&F48

>Screenshot approver page- This got a bit harder. Using keyboard shortcuts + looking for images to jump through an Application to a final screen. Then Screenshot each approver page. The next bullet is a much better solution

>Send email/open IM/or open Work Order. We have an excel file that has 1 approver, and I scrapped that into a sqlite database. With that I could create a sample email with tons of relevant information. Outlook had the email, subject, and body filled in. I would edit before sending. This is otherwise a 5-10 minute process. Doing this on 10 Work Orders per day was extremely time consuming. I made a production version that could select Email, Instant Message, or open Work Order.

>Everything about a part- Similar scraping, but using an online table instead of Excel. Put it in sqlite, I automated opening up drawings, automated finding different colors and their part numbers, opening up relevant work orders, etc...

Some notes on all of this- Sqlite might have been overkill, but these were 100 column and 5000+ row queries. I knew sql, so I used it.

Upgrading to Windows 10 killed my production app. I never got it fixed(I was a General Motors sacrifice + I was busy after the upgrade with my job)

These were the ones I'd use daily.

I would also write scripts for one-off tasks.

Hope that gives you some ideas!

I'll start with the story-

Back when I was 18 and working at a clothing store, I asked my boss if I could be paid in NASDAQs instead of USD. The answer- No. I don't particularly like government currency, because the government prints more every year. However, the market grows at ~7%/yr. I still dreamed of getting paid in Investment.

The App-

This app tokenizes an S&P500 index fund. This way you can trade something 'better' than USD with friends. I also have an end goal of being able to spend it on a debit card, similar to my Bitcoin debit card Shift.

The programming was intense as it was my first time writing a database that did anything interesting. Wrote in double entry book keeping, friends, users etc..

Previous experience in database was merely submitting insert queries.

I have a few serious business considerations before I show it to my audience on my website(Efficiency Is Everything). But either way, I have a fully functional database with a front end for Web, Android, and iOS. Worst case, I can use this app for my next project.

If you have any thoughts about this idea, I'd love to hear from you.