On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 09:13:31 UTC+4, gregebert wrote: > > I think a lot of kickstarter campaigns are started by people who have a > good idea, but dont have first-hand experience taking a concept into > production. It's NOT easy, and it's not cheap. > > Every time I finish another clock, my wife asks me why I dont sell them. > My usual answer is that I make nixie clocks for fun and I do it at my own > leisure; once I start selling them it's a business with financial & > schedule constraints. I get too much of that from my day-job (well, it's > more like a day+night+weekend job....). > ------------------- > Regarding that guy's sob-story about his Prius......I own 2 of them and > they are excellent, trouble-free cars. > Regarding that guy's sob story about Chinese PCB manufacture....I've done > several boards there and they are excellent quality. >
Agreed on all fronts - the sob-story is completely irrelevant - he could still have pledged to return the money over time and if I was a backer, I'd be really piss*d about this. His own/personal problems/stupidity are nothing to do with his backers. I also use a variety of Chinese PCB manufacturers - PCBway is my current favorite for prototypes - and I've never had a problem with them, assuming you give them decent Gerbers in the first place :) I've commercialised a few items over the years, but I gave up being an EE professionally many years ago as it's a tough old world. Bring a product to market requires a lot of careful planning and risk assessment, both commercial and technical - you shouldn't even consider Kickstarter until you have a few working prototypes, i.e. Kickstarter is not a way to realise your technical fantasies! Anybody thinking about this, just do a lot of upfront reading first and, please, talk to people who've done that & been there - experience is everything: Accept that the risk should be all yours, not your backers', Be honest, communicate well and regularly (surprises are generally a BAD plan), build in contingency (that's not the same as profit, by the way!). Backers accept properly managed risk - some projects are bound to fail - no-one accepts stupidity or dishonesty. NIck -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5c8ffaf9-cc75-4db6-b931-6abf7d343c6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
