Building Pawloor dog beds with my wife. Lessons on physical products, EU shipping and running a business with AI. Ex-PM, dad, lifter. Prague.
Prague, Czech Republic
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i'm Dejan. ex-PM, now building Pawloor dog beds with my wife in Prague.
here i share what really happens when you sell a physical product in the EU: suppliers, samples, shipping mistakes, pricing.
plus how i use AI every day to run it. sometimes dad life.
follow if you're building something real
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Same dog bed. Made in Europe vs made in China.
We're asking Chinese suppliers to quote our exact spec: same fabric pattern, at least 30,000 Martindale rubs, same stitching, same size.
We're not moving anything. We just want real numbers.
Two questions:
1. How big is the price gap really?
2. Can they match our quality, or even beat it?
If you've made a physical product in both places, what surprised you more, the price or the quality?
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shipping lesson from selling dog beds across the EU: read the courier packing rules before the first parcel, not after. i taped two boxes together into one parcel to Lithuania. DPD counts that as an atypical parcel, so 453 Kc shipping came with a 990 Kc extra fee.
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you can apply here anysphere.typeform.com/to/Ln… there will be email blast to everyone on this list once applications open again.
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guy from near florence ordered our Persian bed in august, that order got cancelled. 10 days later he came back and ordered the Nomad instead. now his dog Greg has a new favourite spot. second chances are real in ecommerce
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looking to connect with people building actual physical products
shopify / dtc, suppliers, factories, shipping, returns, stock that wont sell, all the boring stuff nobody posts about
doesnt matter what you make. say hi, i reply to everyone
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Elon made everyone start making EVs now they will have to start making flying cars. Good luck with that.
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Marc is a living proof distribution is EVERYTHING, at this point WHATEVER he ships will bring money. There is so much we all can learn from him.
My new startup is profitable from day 1 🥳🎉
I have no investors to please, so I won't raise prices every few months.
→ trustmrr.com/startup/mailche…
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90% of founders on here have never sold anything to a stranger. Including me until last year.
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I run Pawloor, a small Czech dog-bed brand. This week I designed our first bed with bolsters and Opus 5.5 did the geometry with me.
Here's what we built 🧵
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And a layer-by-layer animation of our flagship bed: memory foam on HR foam, an inner cover with hollow-fibre tunnels, the top cover.
The bolster version has no fibre under the sides, so they sit firm.
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