Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks

Idea to Prototype to Kickstarter in 3.5 Weeks(ridiculo.us)

24 points by kylescheele 13 years ago | 8 comments

This 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.

kylescheele 13 years ago | |

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.

biot 13 years ago |

And at $25 for some injection-molded plastic, it's no doubt hugely profitable if/when they recoup the initial tooling costs.

kylescheele 13 years ago | |

The if/when is the issue. :)

Those initial tooling costs are steep!

skeoh 13 years ago |

Interesting 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%).

kylescheele 13 years ago | |

That's fair. I'll try to ease up next time. I can get a little overzealous with my bolding when I get excited.

ChuckMcM 13 years ago |

Interesting 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.

kylescheele 13 years ago | |

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. :)