Last week, I was in Sydney for AWS Summit 2026, and one afternoon I found myself back at Adria Restaurant on Darling Harbour, a place that holds particular significance for both me and Furi Labs.
Almost exactly three years ago, at that same table, I had my first in-person meeting with the CEO of our first Chinese factory partner, who happened to be in Sydney for a few days. That meeting marked the beginning of everything. It was the moment the FLX1 evolved from an idea being exchanged between Bardia and me (Wayne) in chats and calls into something tangible that was actually going to be built.
At the time, I could not have imagined how challenging and costly the journey would become, how much we would learn along the way, or how rewarding it would feel to watch such a passionate and genuinely enthusiastic community grow around us.
As I sat there waiting for my meal and looking out over the harbour, my phone lit up twice in quick succession.
The first message came from our website backend: we had just sold the final FLX1s units.
The second came from Bardia in our development channels: three major outstanding FuriOS issues had just been resolved.
I sat with that for a moment. The phone that replaced the device whose journey began at that very table had officially sold out, while the software powering it had reached one of its strongest states yet. Both milestones happened simultaneously, in the very same restaurant where it all began.
I took a photo of the view, which you can see above.
It got me thinking about the last three years in a way I hadn't really stopped to do before. We have been moving too fast to look back. Sitting there that afternoon, it finally felt worthwhile to do so.
So when I got back to the hotel that night I started pulling together some numbers and doing some research into where we sit! What came out of that became the next post.