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Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:23 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Rocketman — Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:13 am
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Statistics: Posted by puff — Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:57 pm
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Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:42 pm
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This guy has a point hereYou add your final reward level and submit the project to Kickstarter.
Then you wait.
And wait.
And wait.
Not that Kickstarter is particularly slow–2-5 days isn’t a long time to wait for approval. But by that point when you’re mentally prepared to launch, those 2-5 days can feel like eternity.
Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:00 am
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Ah, I see new people would buy via kickstarter, existing via the normal mechanism.
Statistics: Posted by kb1gtt — Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:49 pm
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People who are already here would buy the assembled board from https://www.tindie.com/products/russian/frankenstein-v01-fully-assembled-diy-ecu-shield/ - two of them just did. I guess kickstarter would earn $80 for the publicity - if they bring in 10 real users, it's totally worth it.
If this thing somehow blows up and I get 300 orders... Then the Chinese would be happy to assemble 300 boards.
Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:56 pm
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It could be beneficial to get the boards to more developers. Technically if that would be a small run I can simply solder all them by myself, the way I am currently soldering one for Canada and one for Slovakia.
Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:20 am
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Kickstarter IMHO is most useful for advertising. It's useful for taking something that is ALMOST a product and reaching a much broader audience with it than would be possible otherwise without a HUGE advertising budget. Coupled with a social media campaign and maybe some targeted google ads... Pretty powerful.
rusefi is at the "tinker toy" stage. (no insult intended.) You can do useful things with it, but it's still more of a platform for further development and for people to mess with rather than as a product to purchase for solving a problem (engine management). When things are further along and you have something that is closer to a marketable product (i.e. on par with MegaSquirt in terms of firmware stability (ha), userspace software and DOCUMENTATION) then I would turn to kickstarter at that point as a way of funding paid development / quitting the dayjob to develop rusefi by selling lots of units that more closely resemble a product and are appealing to a much broader audience. The number of people who want a DIY standalone to run a car outnumber the number of people who want to develop a standalone 10:1 easily.
This is just my humble opinion.
Statistics: Posted by blundar — Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:14 am
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So I am still hesitating between two different scenarios:
option #1: fully assembled Frankenstein as a kickstarter project. Pros: these would be cheaper, $99 fully assembled, less effort to make this happen. Cons: this would further away from a real ECU because this is still just a discovery shield.
option #2: project Golem: that's a board with an stm32 chip on it and probably with power supply. Probably still without a case or a connector. Pros: closer to a real ECU. Cons: this is a much larger effort and I am not sure if I am ready to sign up for something this big right now, I need a break from hardware development. Such a board would be more expensive, closer to $150.
Statistics: Posted by AndreyB — Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:33 pm
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Statistics: Posted by kb1gtt — Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:13 am
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Without the hardware there is not much firmware development and it looks tough about getting more software developers involved.
If you book them they will come!
Statistics: Posted by sturovo — Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:13 pm
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