I've lived in Silicon Valley for 11 years and I've learnt more about starting a startup from your videos than I've ever learnt here. Thanks for letting us follow your journey!

Monolith Systems sounds bad ass :)

Found your channel a coule of days ago. Ive no need for a 10gb router but listening to you over the past 15 videos and your explanation of every single trip of the journey has me excited to follow you on your journey , oh and i will def be buying one for my little 1gb home network. Many thanks from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Co founder more like 2nd wife

Congratulations man! Very happy to see your progress. This is very motivating

Nice content. I came for the router but finished with startup 101 class. This video should be named "How I build a high-end router company with 200k initial funding".

congrats! Really fun to watch your progress

Very happy to hear; can't wait to see where the company goes. Best of luck👍

I remember when you first announced this! Great work! I'm actually considering buying one since my neighborhood is getting fiber installed.

Congrats!! Really awesome to see the progress! ❤

Cool to see another video! Just one thought I had: - I'm no legal expert, but I've heard that incorporating in the US means you have to follow certain laws, the most prominent example being that (I believe? I could be wrong here) you must hand over user data to the government if requested by authorities. Just food for thought.

This was super interesting. Refreshing to hear so much about the details and all the things that are required to start a company. I'm excited for follow up videos and of course the product eventually

Congratulations! Keep going man

Exactly what i needed to know. Thanks Tomaž. Greets from Ljubljana.

this is looking up and better with every video. wish you too the best of luck

dude, amazing progress. i hope this is comes to production! very exciting!

Wow, man, I like "build in public" movement and you make it amazing, please keep share detail, not only technical, but and business, management, legal and more... Thank You!

Hopeful and optimistic, i really hope this takes off mate!

Can't wait for part 2

Wohoo found this channel again. Time to catch up on router videos.

Looking forward to watching your progress. And especially if I can run VyOS on your router, I’ll buy one when it’s available!

Not sure if you can answer this right now, but could that router handle PPPoE sessions using multiple threads CPU cores?

Your explanation was really good, and it even answered a question I had without directly answering it. Although I still feel like starting a company is a large task, it feels less intimidating now that I understand more of what goes into making one. Because of that, I would like to thank you.

Cool stuff.

really wishing you the best for this project to succeed love the aluminium idea for the case cheers from austria ;)

As long as you don't pull the rug. You know, probably a lot of people are waiting for you to fail. I am really looking forward to seeing you succeed. I want to buy this product. Consumers have the lamest home routers ever.

I've been biding my time before getting a router like this because all the ones I find reviewed by other homelab channels always have some quirks or issues I can't get over. Very excited to see this idea come to fruition as I can genuinely see every step of design and know that everything on my list is being checked off

Very interesting. Keep up the good work 💪.

Bravo Tomaž, i srečno!

Interesting video as always! Just a few questions: 1. At the end you said US based company. Why did you choose the USA? 2. Did you consider the tax implications of the country of incorporation? 3. Have you looked into any government schemes or grants to help fund startups? Looking forward to the next video. Good luck!

A few years ago a ‘monolith’ appeared in the Utah desert. It was all over the internet as a mystery where it came from. I love the name of the company.

Interesting stuff! It is a bit sad, though, that you've chosen to register the company in the US. I think it would be much cooler if the final product (should it succeed) were marketed as a European one.

Nice man! Congratulations! Hope to see more content for the router and will buy it as soon as sales open.

What software do you want to use as a firewall?

Monolith sounds too close to Monolithic from MPS (Monolithic Power Systems)

Holy shit shares for 0.0001 usd I definitely wanna buy some of that

I think the name „blue monolith“ goes hard. Blue because of the routers color.

I think just "Monolith" is a cool name. I'm anxious to see this endeavor through! Keep it up!

Always fun explaining non-cyrillic slav special characters to someone who isn't a slav. Having a co-founder who wholeheartedly shares your vision is invaluable though, so this bodes really well!

Pozdrav iz Srbije! Želim vam uspeh sa ovim projektom! :)

missed your last video but saw this one.

Asking Aljaz^ to join is like we'll be moving to complete vertical integration in few years. Maybe Monolith Network Instrument Inc.

So... can we buy shares and how?

Looking forward to buying one day. Contrasts on the funding!

Sorry if you already mentioned this, but are there any ideas as to what kind of software the router will run? Will it be based off of something currently open source, or will it be completly new, and if so do you plan on it being open source or closed? Again, very excited for this project.

Looking forward to see the HW, would be nice to have something more custom built and non proprietary. I have a question, will you make your own OS or will the machine support installation as well of other OSes such as OPN, OpenWRT etc.?

Monolith Networks sounds good, good to remember. You can use 2001 soundtrack in advertising :) There might be some negative meaning to it in IT world, not sure if this is relevant here. Maybe you can play with the word a bit - ’Lith Networks. Ah don’t mind me.

Hey Tomaž, how much Euros to get in to this if i want to invest in your projekt, and where do i sign up for it? 🙂

As for company's name i wouldn't limit myself to "X-networks" or "X-systems". While it's surely OK to produce windows and doors while your name suggest that you're producer of wires (we have this situation in Poland ;d) it works for known brands. I'd rather put my bet on some generic name but referred to my current line of products in company's slogan or key letters. For instance, if you're after "monolith-something" but currently being interested in network market, stick to just "Monolith SK" and use letters to form catchy slogan (imagine boxart of your product) like More Networking Lighter or eMpowering Nerdy Labs :P This way if you ever want to pivot on something different (keep in mind that youtube was ment to be dating service) you can use the same principle to be recognizable while not being held hostage in realms of decade old business idea. Furniture? Making New Livingspace. Food? Meats areN't Luxury :P. Automotive? Motosports Like Tuned. Other way is to include founder's initials into name but good luck with something catchy out of TZAT :P

I'm not sure if you'll see this comment, but I run a small (2 man) 3D Design company run out of Vancouver Island in Canada, and we would love to be a part of your project. I've been following since the start and I'm very excited to see where this is going! I'd love to get in touch with you, is your business email on your channel page the best way to do this?

It's a pity that you're exceptionally unlikely to be doing any silicon fab, because otherwise "Monolithography" might've been a nice portmanteau name.

Jaz bi kupil kako delnico ali dve... Za podporo 💪✌️😉😎

Not sure if the company name will run into legal issues. That’s a brand that monoprice uses.

Can we buy shares in your company?

MonoRouter

Name it MREžA and use Ž for the logotype. :-)

Congrats, Digital Monolith?

I don't like the "monolith" naming, seems very personality missing. I still think you should name the product, and the company, after something more meaningful. Like the name of a river closest to your home? "Krupa networks" sounds interesting to me (not sure where your home is, but this river name is stuck in my head). Question: can we buy shares? Or at which point will we be able to? Thanks for bringing us along for the ride, good luck, fingers crossed!

Monolith je priklical asociacijo na razvijalce računalniških iger, igranih zdaj že nekaj desetletij nazaj. Čeprav temu nisem posvečal neke podrobnosti, verjetno zato, ker je dobro ime. À propos, izdelek ne bo zgolj high-end tehnika, ampak tudi, jasno, kos izbranega dizajna, a bo tudi ta tehnika enkrat npr. zastarela. Sklepam (laično seveda, sem softveraš, ne hardveraš), da bo izdelek tako ali drugače upošteval ali predvidel pravico do popravila (right to repair, podjetje v ZDA). Recimo, da lahko zamenjamo pokvarjeno elektroniko. Če bo na neki točki, ko bo ta elektronika postala zastarela oz. bo na voljo zmogljivejša, mogoče elektroniko zamenjati z novejšo in ohraniti ohišje ... mnogi so že poskušali (čeprav ni analogen primer, npr. Googlova Ara, kakopak prinaša dodatne komplikacije, probleme in stroške), a imeti (subjektivno) lep, zmogljiv izdelek, ki je hkrati še popravljiv in nadgradljiv (future-proof), potem je to filozofija, ki diferencira ta izdelek v morju drugih. Tipkovnica je bila dokaz, da je mogoče marsikaj. Vso srečo.

I think you have forgotten the most important thing. Eindhoven has one of the biggest open air music festivals in Holland. Sooo... oh yes, the router - very happy for you and your small first step and hopefully for us and humanity as a whole (big step, big smile?.... sorry, giant leap. That's it! I knew I had it). BTW if you go to US tax evasion state (yeah, Delaware is on the world's list as a 2nd biggest tax haven in the whole world. I think so. Delaware, don't sue me) be careful not to encounter and especially touch Elon Musk because that is 77 years of bad luck. Unless you have some hidden emerald mine in Bled. (who says ChatPG13 never heard of Melania and her lovely country... of origin, of course). Also, the name Monorail Inc rocks! (Simpsons joke for younger audience... :)

MonoliTech

MonoLeet :)

Komentar :D Ker nimam čist nekega konstruktivnega komentarja, vem pa da šteje :D

Not keen on Delaware as the incorporating state. This is widely regarded as a tax heaven. Maybe you should defend/elaborate on that choice in a future video?

yeah Delaware. Go Bluehens

Please no Kickstarter!

Monolithique

0:28 Awkward or actually scam artist alert?

Most importantly, a registered agent is the one who can be served with paperwork to initiate a lawsuit. 😂 It's not just for companies with foreign founders! Also, don't forget that there's a new law in the US which requires you to file a listing of Beneficial Ownership with FinCEN within 30 days of incorporating.

No, your title reads that you made 200 bucks. $200.000 is 200 dollars, not euros or pounds or other currencies. 200.000 is just 200, if you want 200,000, don't use a period. €200,000.00

MonolithNet MonolithConnect MonolithLink MonolithTech MonolithWave MonolithRouter MonolithStream MonolithEdge MonolithNetWorks MonolithConnectivity Also, with the word veloxius, which is Latin for velocity, speed, very swift, very fast, these might interest you as well since it is a fast high-end router; VeloxiusNet VeloxiusConnect VeloxiusLink VeloxiusTech VeloxiusWave VeloxiusRouter VeloxiusStream VeloxiusEdge VeloxiusNetworks VeloxiusConnectivity

Came for nerdy content few weeks ago. Will stay for investments and shareholding details with nerdy background;d Whole idea of explaining to us mortals what's in between idea and new device on the market is fascinating as you often hear that one had great idea, some magic dust was sprinkled and *poof* appreciate my kickass-o-tron 4000!!!!1 Here it doesn't sound very straightforward but what's of actual value of this blurb is that founding fathers can solely focus on their idea while "outsourcing" so to speak legal stuff with minimal effort of decision making to lawyers and at the end of the day all the concepts of shares, making agreements with participants CAN be actually grasped by regular Johnny (or Jozef i should say 😅).

Damn, Monolith something would of been cool but there is already a company in the US that might contest having a similar name 😅: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_Inc Kryolith?