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Q&A: Hardware development, collaboration, documentation

As engineers ourselves, we built AllSpice to be a platform that helps engineers create incredible hardware products more efficiently. We love talking with our users, and we're so happy you're talking back to us 🙂. Here’s a recap of a live Q&A about hardware product development, collaboration, and documentation.

Let’s recap

For the live Q&A, we teamed up with Kaethe Henning from Alloy Product Development to have a conversation about collaboration in hardware development (try saying that three times fast). We kept the session small and cozy so we could answer everyone’s questions — and we sure had plenty of them to answer 🙌

We covered a lot (stay tuned for Q&A clips popping up on our LinkedIn soon 👀

) but just to give you a taste, here’s what our topics included:

An overview of the basic development stages across HW companies, the common pitfalls at each stage, and solutions to avoid them
When to design in-house vs. outsourcing to a development firm
Our favorite collaboration tools for HW teams
Why documentation is important and some best practices
Hot trends in HW development we’re excited about 🔥

Software practices we see commonly used in HW

Want to see more? Watch the full Q&A video below or on our YouTube channel.

As always, happy developing – and we hope to see you at our next event!

Do you have any specific questions you’d like covered in our future live Q&A sessions? Let us know at info@allspice.io.

Valentina Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO

At heart, I’m an engineer. I love building real world things and improving the way we build them. Early in my career, I watched capable teams build complex systems using archaic workflows that had not really evolved. AllSpice.io started as an effort to change that and bring modern software practices, and now AI, into hardware development. These days, I don’t build products hands-on anymore, but I get to see them come to live through the teams we support. Originally from Argentina, I moved to Boston for school and earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University followed by an M.S. in Engineering with a focus on Computer Science and an MBA from Harvard. I now live in San Francisco with my husband, young son, and very sassy miniature schnauzer.

Kyle Dumont

Co-Founder & CTO

I've always been obsessed with building, innovating, and finding novel solutions for emerging technologies. Since early in my career, I've loved the synthesis between physical hardware and digital integration electrical engineering offered, and spent many years taking hardware products from concept to mass-manufacturing. I started AllSpice.io to ensure hardware engineers have all of the data they need to make impactful decisions at their fingertips. I live in the Boston area, and hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a MS in Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering and Machine Learning and an MBA from Harvard, and 5 patents in hardware system integration and sensor design.

Valentina Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO

At heart, I’m an engineer. I love building real world things and improving the way we build them. Early in my career at Amazon, I watched capable teams build complex systems using archaic workflows that had not really evolved. AllSpice.io started as an effort to change that and bring modern software practices, and now AI, into hardware development. These days, I don’t build products hands-on anymore, but I get to see them come to live through the teams we support. Originally from Argentina, I moved to Boston for school and earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, an M.S. in Engineering (Computer Science), and an MBA from Harvard. I now live in San Francisco with my husband, young son, and very sassy miniature schnauzer.

Kyle Dumont

Co-Founder & CTO

I've always been obsessed with building, innovating, and finding novel solutions for emerging technologies. Since early in my career, I've loved the synthesis between physical hardware and digital integration electrical engineering offered, and spent many years taking hardware products from concept to mass-manufacturing. I started AllSpice.io to ensure hardware engineers have all of the data they need to make impactful decisions at their fingertips. I live in the Boston area, and hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a MS in Engineering with a focus on Computer Engineering and Machine Learning and an MBA from Harvard, and 5 patents in hardware system integration and sensor design.