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How to Build a
Profitable IoT Product
Adam Dunkels
Who am I?
• Adam Dunkels, PhD, Independent IoT consultant
• Wrote lwIP, uIP, Contiki
• Academia 2000-2012
• Entrepreneur 2012-
• Involved in a bunch of IoT products
How to Build a Profitable IoT Product – in
Three Easy Steps!
1. IoT
2. ???
3. Profit!
Profitable?
•Make more money than we spend
•Successful
•Valuable
Different types of IoT products
• The product == the business
• The product == older product++
• The product == an internal tool
The Big Question
•Whose problem are we solving?
•2 parts:
+The problem
+Who
Idea!
•“Car key with WiFi”!
•Whose problem are we solving?
Another idea!
•Car dealers!
•Whose
problem are
we solving?
Let’s design it!
• Should we add
Bluetooth?
+ Whose problem
are we solving?
Should we add a web frontend?
•Whose problem are we solving?
+The customer’s?
+The devops team’s?
Any feature request, really
•Whose problem are we solving?
The Purpose
•“We solve (person X’s problem)”
Which is worse?
• 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews
• 1000 ⭐ reviews
Should we deploy
too soon?
Yes
How valuable might we be?
•How much are they paying to solve
their problem today?
•How much will our solution cost to
produce?
How to Build a Profitable IoT Product
•The Big Question
+Whose problem are we solving?
Thank you! Questions?
Adam Dunkels
adam@dunkels.com

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