Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR | Hacker News

Post-mortems show that poor documentation and lack of accountable, realistic milestones are common failure points in hardware teams.

Documentation often gets deprioritized when teams move fast, which creates unrecorded decisions that become technical and organizational debt.

Teams that scale treat documentation as a forcing function for clear thinking rather than a chore, and should require concise written explanations of decisions.