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bredrenyesterday at 9:36 PM1 replyview on HN

I see a future where FOSS designs for consumer products compete with commercial releases.

It will take far more sophisticated micro-manufacturing (like 3d-printing but different tools handling more types of materials).

Get the jacket in your exact size with the best materials. Benefit from having incrementally improved from the original (for example under arm vent zipper angle improved). All of it unbranded or custom branded.

Seems hard to believe annual released, mass manufacturing will compete.


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pastel8739yesterday at 9:40 PM

Really? To me it seems hard to believe that small-scale manufacturing could ever meaningfully compete with economies of scale.