Hello there,

my name's Ilia. I'm an IC hardware engineer with a computer science degree. In my previous life I've designed or architected products that likely some - if not most - of you have owned, used and, hopefully, loved. Me and everyone who worked with me.

Got an old smartphone? It may have a "me" inside.

Since then, I retired early to do what I always wanted to do - making high-tech products that matter, in an environment conducing to creativity and market success, surrounded by talented people that I admire.

That's exactly what I did before for twenty years - minus the corporate.

Makes sense?

I retired when COVID started and dived head-on into something that I liked. Five 16-hours-a-day years, half-a-dozen garage-manufactured iterations and a couple of burnouts later I got something that might interest a fraction of a fraction of people out there. People that never heard or thought I thought of them and worked hard to make them happier. But hey, the product's "almost" ready at the prototype stage.

That means it's time to market it.

Five years since my "retirement", I'm sitting at Finney's somewhere in LA sprawling suburbs typing this up. Gosh, I HATE to be in the public's eye. Do you? My wife - my best part of my life - does. So do my kids . And I got zero marketing experience.

But - if I look back - i tend to get encouraged that, i think, i'm a quick learner.

// Stop the press and pardon me. Chrome spellchecker says there are errors.
// Pressing OK to ignore the English spellchecker errors.

Long story short. Are you into high-tech startups? Are into tiny ideas evolving into OpenAI's, Googles, NVidias, Microsofts or Teslas of this world?

Hello,

I'm a nobody prepping a high-tech product launch for STEM Students, Educators and Makers!

This is a pet robot called Mini! No really, it's a pet! It will play toys, hide-and-seek and roam your room! That's just for starters! The kicker is that you Download additional skills from the skill store! But wait, you also can write and publish new skills! For example, teach Mini to display emotions or play with another Mini using Python! Furthermore, if you buy, you get to learn Arduino, the modern robotics like ROS2 and latest AI! You can even use ChatGPT!

But wait, we got plans for more! Mini is just a first steppingstone, so we can learn Marketing! After that, we have a plan to be a Google of Robotics!

If you don't believe in me or my startup capabilities, here is my bio https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliao/

Here is the product website https://makerspet.com and jere is the startup that actually designed the product https://remake.ai

But you best follow https://www.facebook.com/makerspet/ BC this IS the product

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where we will announce the PRODUC LAUNCH!

PS.

OK, my ASUS just popped up a battery-low alert. Are you still with me?

I have to say a farewell and thank you for reading to the end and I hope you enjoyed the caps and the exclamation marks ツ

I'm about to celebrate 25 years of being a USA immigrant. I Love USA and its First Amendment.

This is, in part, why I came here.

Now that I have to go public, I have a political statement to make:

1. I WANT and LOVE Your Feedback - Positive and Negative.

2. With a chaser ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / .- .-.. .-.. / .- -. --- -. -.-- -- --- ..- ... / .-. . .--. .-.. .. . ...

Elon Musk? Threads? Anybody?