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Ask HN: Product led growth for hardware startups?

Is there anyone who works in a hardware startup that tries to create product led growth?

PLG in SaaS is an old topic now and is much more straight forward due to self-service and easy user analytics.

How is everyone tracking common usage patterns in physical devices, especially in a B2B context?

With physical devices I mean measurement equipment, mobile/stationary robots, ...

What I am most interested in, is finding out how people use them, what are common patterns among users, how often is it used, ...

I know Mixpanel and co and I guess they could be abused to work for something like that, but they seem to be mostly tailored towards SaaS/E-Commerce.

Is there anyone who works in a hardware startup that tries to create product led growth?

PLG in SaaS is an old topic now and is much more straight forward due to self-service and easy user analytics.

How is everyone tracking common usage patterns in physical devices, especially in a B2B context?

With physical devices I mean measurement equipment, mobile/stationary robots, ...

What I am most interested in, is finding out how people use them, what are common patterns among users, how often is it used, ...

I know Mixpanel and co and I guess they could be abused to work for something like that, but they seem to be mostly tailored towards SaaS/E-Commerce.