Noam Aizenberg shares the step-by-step journey of designing, prototyping, and manufacturing a hardware product to treat TMJ disorder.
This is the FULL story of how I built a hardware product from scratch for my TMJ Disorder
📦 Fresh out of college to idea to Small Business - Step by Step
This is the real behind-the-scenes story of how I brought my first product—myTMJ Pen—to market. No investors. No co-founders. No experience. Just chronic jaw pain, 190 prototypes, $40,000 spent, and many many hours of engineering and learning.
👉 In this video, I share:
How I went from jaw pain to quitting my 9-5
How I designed my first PCB (as a mechanical engineer)
How I scaled production + marketing to $50K/month
The startup mistakes I made along the way
What it’s really like to bootstrap your first product
My take on patents, manufacturing, FDA regulations, and building an audience from scratch
Whether you're into product design, hardware startups, or just want a brutally honest look at what it takes to launch something from your bedroom—this is the video I wish I had when I started.
🔧 Product: myTMJ Pen - A heated massager for jaw pain (TMJ Disorder)
🕸️ Link: mytmjrelief.com
📍 Built completely in-house: 3D printed casings, hand-assembled, and shipped from my tiny apartment-factory
💸 Launched with no funding, no experience, just social media, preorders, and a lot of hustle
👇 Resources Mentioned
JLCPCB $2 for 1-8 layer PCB: jlcpcb.com/?from=noam
PCB Design Tutorials using EasyEDA:
youtube.com/watch?v=utBQqcuOt9Uyoutube.com/watch?v=35YuILUlfGs
Circuit Design Tutorials:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWv9VM947MKgGV1yrfwsdW51kliYrVMBoyoutube.com/watch?v=uXr4lXYjXuU&t=1543s
Favorite Podcasts: My First Million, How I Built This, Acquired, Founders
Got questions about building your own product? Drop a comment—I reply to all of them. 🙏
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Intro
Actually How it All Started
A Genius Idea!
WTF is a PCB?
I Made a LOT of Mistakes
Designing the Physical Product?
Setting Up the Business
Concepts of a Business Plan
Time to ship, baby!
Go All In
The FDA
Ramping Things Up
: The Future
Why it's here
2 people recommend this
What people say. Recommended as an end-to-end case study of taking a hardware product from initial prototype to retail sales.
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u/FluxBenchin r/embedded • Recommends
On “What do I need to teach beginners to quickly make real products? What to do after the Arduino starter kit?”
This is my nerd I go to for that stuff: [video
But what I personally wish is that I could see that end to end process for individual things. Like the individual boards done here but end to end for full products from problem to retail sales [video
Maybe 20-40 minutes per video, but I think it needs to be shown together. This guy did it right:
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This guy sold a lot with a product programmed with arduino-ide 🤷♂️
And yes, people told ya never to do so.
Arduino is kinda prototype trash 🤷♂️😅
Perhaps actual product reality is totally different.