Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
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Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#2And at $25 for some injection-molded plastic, it's no doubt hugely profitable if/when they recoup the initial tooling costs.
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#3This is fantastic, congrats. If I had an iPhone I'd back it!
If you could do a version for ancient Nokia phones (the kind with monophonic ringtones) I'd be all over it!
Though not sure about the reward tiers. The high-ticket ones just don't sound very appealing... Might have made more sense to have a slightly more expensive tier for your choice of colour, or for two or more bought together.
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#4Interesting story. It will be interesting to see if it reaches its goal, how many would you sell if you "sold" it on thingaverse ? How many musicians use this style? Etc.
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#5Interesting read, but the author needs to ease up on the bold text. Bold text is for key points only and loses its meaning when overused.
I counted 159 words in the summary, of which 85 were bolded (53%).
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#6Interesting read, but the author needs to ease up on the bold text. Bold text is for key points only and loses its meaning when overused. I counted 159 words in the summary, of which 85 were bolded (53%).
That's fair. I'll try to ease up next time. I can get a little overzealous with my bolding when I get excited.
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#7This is fantastic, congrats. If I had an iPhone I'd back it! If you could do a version for ancient Nokia phones (the kind with monophonic ringtones) I'd be all over it! Though not sure about the reward tiers. The high-ticket ones just don't sound very appealing... Might have made more sense to have a slightly more expensive tier for your choice of colour, or for two or more bought together.
Haha. Not sure how much of a market there'd be for those Nokia phones... although I do miss the original Snake game.
The higher reward tiers are really just there for kicks and grins.
Unfortunately, Kickstarter's newest requirements for design projects don't let you sell multiple copies of a reward. And custom colors are super-expensive (several hundred dollars to set up and run a custom color) to the point where it isn't viable for us yet.
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#8And at $25 for some injection-molded plastic, it's no doubt hugely profitable if/when they recoup the initial tooling costs.
The if/when is the issue. :)
Those initial tooling costs are steep!
Re: Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks
#9Interesting story. It will be interesting to see if it reaches its goal, how many would you sell if you "sold" it on thingaverse ? How many musicians use this style? Etc.
Thanks! We're interested to see what happens as well.
Thingaverse/shapeways are certainly options too, but they don't give the same polished product that injection-molding does.
We're hoping that the WeeWow will expose a lot more musicians to this style. Since traditional talkboxes are expensive ($180 bucks or so) a lot of musicians have heard of talkboxes, but not very many have ever used one. Even if they never record with one, we're hoping the WeeWow will give musicians something to experiment with. There are never too many ways to make cool sounds. :)