Brian Henderson

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Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 844 | Building a $1M+ ARR SaaS for Laundromats · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And very appropriately, typically software running in a browser, a web app,

does not have access to hardware connected to your computer.

And that's by design.

That's a very wonderful and very good thing for security for browser-based software.

Typically, you don't want that accessing hardware you have connected to your computer.

That could be disastrous if you went to a website that wanted to just hijack things.

But for a point-of-sale system, you need to be able to press a button and a cash drawer kicks open.

So how do you deal with that?

We found some software that is a third party.

party program that runs on the client's computer that can be interacted with via JavaScript in the browser.

And so there's some action that happens on the screen, it runs some JavaScript, and then we're interacting with the hardware.

And so it will print a receipt without having to use the Google Chrome, you know, print dialog window or anything like that.

And coincidentally, a cash drawer is typically controlled through a receipt printer.

So we send some command to the receipt printer and that kicks open the cash drawer.

So that's an example where that little bit of code, just enough, not a whole solution that we crafted, but just enough to add the extra bit of functionality helped.

So here's the really cool thing.

With no code tools like Bubble, you can iterate and very quickly

build and test solutions with a small lean team to make sure you're solving the right problems first, get feedback, and then improve that.

And then now with some of these AI tools, you can go a step further and you can build your own plugins without needing to know how to code JavaScript or whatever language you're needing to do.

But because it's tied into that no-code

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