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I need some high quality aluminum or ceramic enclosures built for a wearable consumer hardware prototype. I know of Catcher in Taiwan but that's it. The manufacturers I've been able to find in the US all make terrible looking enclosures.

More generally does the US have the means to create physical high fidelity hardware prototypes? We can handle the electronics and the software in house but the industrial design stuff I am having a really hard time nailing down.

What are the technical innovations that enabled them to do this? In general how would you build this type of system in 2020?

We have awesome tools for modeling real 3D models (Solidworks, Autodesk, Onshape, etc.) that do FAR more sophisticated things than your average 2D web page. You can design an entire working engine inside of one tool using only a GUI.

Why the f&*# are people still hand coding React web apps? Making a game in Unity is simpler than making a React app.

What am I missing here?

I am starting to hire a few positions for my company. Up until now I have always hired contract workers and because of this my relationship with "employees" has always been "You deliver X for $".

Now I am trying to hire for a variety of positions, some on the more professional side, some more entry level. Right now I am having a hard time rejecting people based purely on their resumes because: A.) We've all had to go through the hiring gauntlet so I want to give people their best chance. B.) How can you distill a person to just what a few words on a pdf say?

Obviously I am going to pick the best candidate for the job as that is best for everybody but simultaneously don't want to reject people out of hand, nor do I want to interview people that won't succeed and make people feel bad about themselves unnecessarily.

Thoughts?

I have a startup working on a new platform/marketplace that, if successful, could grow to a very heavy traffic site. I have contacts within AMZN, MSFT, etc. but they are all developers and likely don't know anything about getting free startup credits. What's the best path forward to this?