Hi everyone,
I’ve been consulting in robotics on and off, and one pattern keeps coming up: our development tools are still too painful.
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Setting up projects can take days, often requiring advanced expertise just to get an environment working.
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Teams often say, “Framework X didn’t work for us, so we built our own library.” That may solve a narrow problem, but it slows down progress for the field as a whole.
We think there must be a better way.
That’s why we’re building SnappyTool a browser-based drag-and-drop robotics design platform where you can:
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Assemble robots visually
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Auto-generate URDF / ROS code
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Share designs and even buy/sell robot parts via a marketplace
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Use it freely with a generous freemium model (not gatekeeping innovation!!)
The ask:
What’s the #1 bottleneck in your robotics workflow that, if solved, would significantly improve your productivity (enough that you or your team would pay for it)?
Examples could be:
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Simulation setup
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CAD → URDF conversion
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Version control for robot models
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Sourcing compatible hardware parts
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Deployment and integration
We’ve have a little runway and assembled a small team to work full-time on this. We’d like to make sure we are solving real pains first, not imaginary ones.
Any input would be very much appreciated thank you!