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Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves
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#63I use notebooks, notepads, blanks sheets of paper, Japanese A5 and A5 notepads, and Pilot Frixion erasable pens. I do mostly writing, and also diagramming (I'm a software developer) with the odd doodle and 3-d house. I'm very picky about pens, very picky about paper. I also definitely want to keep my notebooks. I do not want all this stuff digitized. At all. What I do digitize, I convert carefully, taking care to cra…
So, your not a potential customer for Mod Notebook, which is fine. But that doesn't really add anything to this discussion :)
Watching the video on the site, they seem to think that all geeks want their stuff digitized. I'm a geek (I even have pasty white skin) and I don't want some of my stuff digitized.
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#64I just tried to buy, but you don't ship to Canada :-( Any plans to change that?
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#65Kickstarter takes a lot of money for basically delivering hype. I think KS really should have rules/terms that prevent you from canceling after certain things happen. Press like covering KickStarter. It is a validation that the product is "obtainable" as opposed to a pie in the sky press release from a company that something might come out someday. KS takes a big cut for what they deliver, but they do deliver it, so…
you can be sure KS team is discussing a policy change after this incident.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am very sorry for down voting you, it was a complete accident, my mouse slipped, and now I can't undo my action.
No worries, I upvoted it for you.
I added an extra up vote just in case that's what he was attempting.
Also, I wanted to up vote the comment either way.
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#67I just tried to buy, but you don't ship to Canada :-( Any plans to change that?
Hey! I run MonthlyBoxer.com and we're doing fulfillment for Mod. Would you be willing to pay an extra $10 for shipping each way? If so, I can talk to Jon and Marshall about it. It's not any harder on my end, and I think their shop can handle variable pricing for different countries.
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#68I wonder if the notebooks are stripped to bare sheets, scanned and then re-built as a new notebook with proper bindings for sending back. I don't see any other way of doing this that would keep it efficient.
We've yet to train any adorable animals to do the scanning for us :(
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#69Is there a HN thread where we can discuss this service and ask questions/debate the merits? I'd do it here but it feels inappropriate as the thread is more about Kickstarter and not the core product/service.
Ditto. How about in this thread? I was watched the video waiting for some big reveal, but was sort of let down by the offering. The site says more about the notebook's quality than the OCR/digitization, which is what I was more interested in.
I was hoping for a pen that simultaneously puts ink on the page and also tracks exactly what you write/draw and uploads it every minute or so. It'd probably be too difficult to do that with a tactile sensor, so perhaps a tiny camera could be used instead?
I assume neither of those are very practical at the moment, otherwise a company would've tried it already.
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#70Get all of the hype and exposure that a Kickstarter campaign gives without having to pay them their cut. Makes sense.
Well said. nothing to add. Perfect play.