It's already the 4th and I'm just now getting a chance to blog. I've been working on gathering all the parts for my successful Demo-Shield kickstarter project while at the same time working on my next one. I'm excited about the new one so stay tuned, I'll be announcing here first in a future post.
Fulfilling all the rewards for a successful kickstarter is a lot of work. They don't exactly organize things well (though they think they do). I wish they would just switch to Paypal for payments, then creating shipping labels would be a few click process. Right now you have to get your money from Amazon Payments, then send out a survey to backers so they can fill out their address, then download each different .csv file for each reward level and cut and paste the address or retype it into a USPS.com shipping label form. For a technology company that's leading edge of crowdfunding, they are really behind the times.
I was able to ...
I was able to ...
gather the components together for the Demo-Shields but now I wait for the circuit boards to arrive.
I really find there are three phases to a kickstarter project.
1) Create the product/project.
2) Create a Video and Story.
3) If Successful, gather the parts, build the rewards and ship.
I've got 100+ different little designs and projects I've created over the years and most were developed with the idea that maybe somebody might want to buy one. I guess it was a dream of mine deep down to create a product so successful I could quit my day job and just manufacture and ship product while I used a portion of the profits to design something new.
I always looked at it like a music artist who writes and records their songs hoping for a hit. But I never had a hit that sold that well (though I did have a few good sellers). Kickstarter gives me a chance to promote those products and new ones I come up with to test how much interest there is in the idea. I find it is much better than throwing it up on a website shopping cart. I wish kickstarter was around when I was younger.
Anyway, if you like the Maximite computer I've talked about on this blog then I think you'll really like my next kickstarter. It should launch by February. Stay tuned.
1) Create the product/project.
2) Create a Video and Story.
3) If Successful, gather the parts, build the rewards and ship.
I've got 100+ different little designs and projects I've created over the years and most were developed with the idea that maybe somebody might want to buy one. I guess it was a dream of mine deep down to create a product so successful I could quit my day job and just manufacture and ship product while I used a portion of the profits to design something new.
I always looked at it like a music artist who writes and records their songs hoping for a hit. But I never had a hit that sold that well (though I did have a few good sellers). Kickstarter gives me a chance to promote those products and new ones I come up with to test how much interest there is in the idea. I find it is much better than throwing it up on a website shopping cart. I wish kickstarter was around when I was younger.
Anyway, if you like the Maximite computer I've talked about on this blog then I think you'll really like my next kickstarter. It should launch by February. Stay tuned.
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