>Seems to be too late now, but this really sounds like a perfect case
>for Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
>
>It's a crowd-funding site, people can say "hey, I have this cool
>project and if 100 people pledge to spend 50€ on it, it will be built.
>If not, no money is lost". Most projects are relatively small, but
>recently a computer game even pulled in funds of several million
>dollars this way...
>
>Not sure if a QL product can pull it off, but if a "phone-soap"
>(that's actually the combination of a phone charger with a UV-lamp for
>killing germs) can pull in $63.000 of funds, everything seems possible
>;-)
>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588318042/phonesoap-simultaneously-charge-and-sanitize-your?ref=card
>
>Marcel
Why not just test the waters? We could do some research of interest using
Rich's mailing list (e-mail addresses). After that the project should be placed
on Kickstarter in order to collect a certain amount which would may persuade
Adrian to pick it up again and finish the project. Nothing to lose ...
The research mail should be very simple: Interested in buying for the QL: A) SD
Card internal solution B) SD Card ROM Port solution C) nothing.
If the outcome should be, as you have put as an example, about 100 people at 50
Euros than this is may enough to go into production (?)
Would be interesting to find out if this would work as for other projects the
same could be easily done again.
T
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