It is your money, but I feel like you might be limiting your future willingness to continue making nixie tubes for others by
continuing to subsidize the costs (parts + labor) using your gratefulness to the community. Granted, you may never be able to cover
all of your labor costs, so this will likely remain a hobby, but if other people are willing to throw money towards a nixie tube
documentary, then they should be able to. Then, hopefully, you will let the community enjoy the fruits of your hobby for a little
bit longer.
If you have the money for the video, then spending it as you see fit is going to be a lot easier than dealing with the general
public via a crowd funding campaign. Putting up a donation page after a person watches the video is the least time consuming way to
get compensated if all you count is the time spent on potential obligations and refunds. But asking for it beforehand might
motivate people more and take advantage of the wide audience that some of these crowd funding sites have. In other words, there
might be an opportunity to get more people interested in this viscerally gratifying display technology. To keep this technology
alive, it would be advantageous to keep the community size stable or growing. My intention is not to convince you to do anything,
but just to put this information out there.
Kickstarter would be perfect for raising funds for a documentary. It focuses more on the arts than any other crowd funding site that
I know of. The audience there generally expects entertainment, but a howto video might work there. The only problem with it is
that it only offers all or nothing funding with an unlimited donation total and a strict deadline for when those donations have to
be made. Indiegogo is a little better in that it offers extensions to deadlines when it makes sense to extend the deadline. It
also offers flexible funding, which is useful if your project will go ahead regardless of the amount donated.
Just to contrast the use of crowd funding: For hardware with multiple quantities, Kickstarter is the worst. Indiegogo is okay, but
there are other crowd funding sites that specialize in hardware projects that plan on being sold after the fundraising period ends.
crowdsupply.com allows pre-orders after the fundraising period ends and can become a regular store when items are in stock. This is
great for ensuring cash flow between the different stages of product development and keeps you from getting distracted from running
your own store front. Tindie does not deal with funding, but it is a store for hobbyists. People sell kits, finished products, and
excess inventory of component parts. There are already a few people selling nixie stuff there, which many of you may already be
familiar with. Although eBay does reach a wider audience. I am generally less hesitant to order from places like eBay and Amazon
than small e-commerce sites unless I am more familiar with the company. Etsy has a good homemade crafts audience, which seems like
a good fit for selling unique homemade nixie crafts.
Anyway, I apologize for the lengthy e-mail. Congratulations on the auction! I was hoping that it would exceed the prices of the
Z568M tubes given that these a fresh tubes with a warranty. Of course, the Z568M market may be a little saturated at the moment.
Maybe after you get your video out and people start discussing it, you may do even better in your auctions!
On 02/13/2015 02:41 PM, Dalibor Farný wrote:
Thanks guys, I am just grateful to community for helping me with the
start and so.. I want to pay back for it, and showing what I've
discovered might be good idea..
Regards,
Dalibor
2015-02-13 18:25 GMT+01:00 jb-electronics <[email protected]>:
Well put, Nick, I completely agree!
Jens
Nick <[email protected]> hat am 13. Februar 2015 um 16:29 geschrieben:
On Friday, 13 February 2015 14:12:21 UTC, Dalibor wrote:
...As for the auction, the price exceeded my expectations and it would be
good if it stays there for some time of course ;-)
....
Hey - you deserve every last cent you can get - you've got several of us
interested in the possibility of having a go, re-discovered and implemented
the technology, and have produced wonderful work !!
Cheers
Nick
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