Your description of the invention is precisely correct. Cross posting on the EA forum is a good idea.
I’d enthusiastically do part-time contract work to help make a machine like this happen again, for the right price (which might be surprisingly high or low, depending on one’s expectations). It’d be way faster and cheaper for a company to hire me than to do it themselves from scratch. It’d be less risky too. My mental model is that the bottleneck on a project like this is good founders/executives. It is a question of leadership and will.
So, you and your team spent six years of effort working full time for no pay (what did you even eat then?). You developed a product that worked just great, was in demand and could make a difference in fighting obesity by making a beep whenever the wearer eats. But even though the product was ready—“just put it on and good to go”—and you can easily reconstruct it, you and your whole team decided to abandon it and part ways. Because you simply aren’t that into diabetes prevention, and also your time is limited and you have more important things to do. But you would enthusiastically do part-time contract work on this project again.
I feel like this story doesn’t quite make sense. If the company was doing so well and you just didn’t want to run it anymore, why didn’t you sell it?
Your description of the invention is precisely correct. Cross posting on the EA forum is a good idea.
I’d enthusiastically do part-time contract work to help make a machine like this happen again, for the right price (which might be surprisingly high or low, depending on one’s expectations). It’d be way faster and cheaper for a company to hire me than to do it themselves from scratch. It’d be less risky too. My mental model is that the bottleneck on a project like this is good founders/executives. It is a question of leadership and will.
So, you and your team spent six years of effort working full time for no pay (what did you even eat then?). You developed a product that worked just great, was in demand and could make a difference in fighting obesity by making a beep whenever the wearer eats. But even though the product was ready—“just put it on and good to go”—and you can easily reconstruct it, you and your whole team decided to abandon it and part ways. Because you simply aren’t that into diabetes prevention, and also your time is limited and you have more important things to do. But you would enthusiastically do part-time contract work on this project again.
I feel like this story doesn’t quite make sense. If the company was doing so well and you just didn’t want to run it anymore, why didn’t you sell it?