I ended up working in IT for a large company because of opportunity. Both in terms of interesting projects and pay. All my fellow classmates that went into industry seem to be stuck in heavy internal processes, or working like hell to finish projects that barely recoup their costs. Those who went into hardware entrepreneurship struggle to find clients and investors. The only sector that still seems sexy is the very high end for B2B and luxury.

My analysis is that scale cannot be reached by non Chinese companies except for very specific and high end products (that have a smaller scale by design). Therefore it is impossible to compete on the price/quality ratio of large scale products. And I end up thinking that tariffs could be the solution.

I am based in Europe by the way

[1] : https://www.bls.gov/cew/publications/employment-and-wages-an... [2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

« Brand new » is not an argument by itself. Business is a must, or at least booking a lounge.

In a city appartement where floor space is scarce, convenience is a key feature and power costs barely nothing, it is a less obvious choice.

In France, with Nuclear power and renewable it’s 20% lower.

Prices also depends on who you want to give power.

Plus, you can experiment with tray materials depending on what you want to cook.

Suggestions inspired by my experience with convection/classic oven and copper pizza plates

https://www.italiancookshop.com/products/hammered-copper-rou...

« Always define your variables » is the first thing I learned during my engineering studies, in both math and physics class. Professors were insisting a lot about it. I still consider it is the most important thing I ever learned 10 years later.

A nice project could be to automate a generator. It must be quite hard because it feels like a mix between a Captcha and an AI hallucination but made right. The « glyph » search part of the site is maybe the best asset to start with a database of possible matches.