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@RichardCollins It seems like a natural progression of things and it's an approach that has worked for me
you can use the web client for reading, I suppose https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#irc://irc.freenode.net/#hackaday
@Joshua Lifton Understood. Thanks.
@Kelly Heaton we haven't yet, but I've met Habib and others.
@Patrick Van Oosterwijck Did that go just to you or everyone? I am new to this kind of chat.
I was facing scrolling problem, but if you scroll fast around 10 to 20 chats upwards, it keeps quite and you can scroll down slowly.
And Joi Ito was close to Crowd Supply. I liked his coining of the phrase "transition lab"
As mentioned, Hackaday is a great place to start a project that ends up on Crowd Supply.
Market validation is the name of the game.
@RichardCollins It's a public chat I believe.
@Joshua Lifton for the sake of clarity only, can you give us a description of the perfect project for Crowd Supply (your dream project)?
@Kelly Heaton even after six years, I'm still pleasantly surprised by which projects succeed and what success looks like to the creators.
For some people, it's just getting it out the door. For others, it's making some money and supporting their transition into a new career.
The most critical common thing across all projects I consider successful is a true passion on the part of the creator for what they are doing. It's necessary, if not sufficient.
I'm also partial to satellites.
@Joshua Lifton thanks!
Check out the updates for this project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/pylo/muart/updates
You can clearly see the kind of attention to detail that only comes from caring a lot about the project.
It is the microscale and crowd sourcing from people specifically interested in the results that is so powerful. People see these technologies and want to use them, but cannot get past some basics that your designers can provide.
That's one of the paradoxes of this business: niche products do better.
@Joshua Lifton Good answers. I believe "Passion" is a an essential element to all successfully delivered projects! :-)
This is because a niche product has a well-connected audience, so you only need to tell a few of those people and suddenly everyone knows about it.
If it fills a specific niche, that is really a specific engineering hurdle that many people are stuck on.
and the author is usually part of that niche as well
Yeah, without passion it's easy to give up when you hit the inevitable setbacks.
@de∫hipu yep, exactly.
I look forward to seeing what projects you all have going on.
@Joshua Lifton I'll be in touch
That's always the biggest problem, getting lost in the crowd. That's why I think a focused crowdsourcing platform like Crowd Supply is a better channel than a broad one like KS.
One of the biggest mistakes of project creators is waiting until things are perfect before revealing them to the world.
@Kelly Heaton great!
Hi, Josh, any possibility to tell us more about "Field Reports initiative"? It seems that I've missed that or you didn't have a chance to told us about it more.
@Patrick Van Oosterwijck agreed. On the other hand, if you are looking to raise money for an art project, Kickstarter is really great.
@Denis yes, there's a pilot of the idea here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini/updates/field-report-contest
OK all, we've got an hour under our belts, so I'm going to call official time so Josh can get back to running Crowd Supply. Josh, feel free to stay on if you have time, of course, but for now I'll say another huge thanks for spending your time with us today. It's really been informative.
Thanks everyone! And remember, next week we'll be talking about quick-turn PCB manufacturing with Mihir Shah from Royal Circuits: https://hackaday.io/event/165812-quick-turn-pcb-fab-hack-chat
The basic idea is to give backers the chance to share what they're doing.
Thank you!
@Dan Maloney and everyone, thanks so much for having me!
thanks
@Joshua Lifton Thanks for your time and responses!
I can stick around for a bit longer, but will drop off in a few.
Our pleasure!
Thank you!
Also, passion is what gives the successful projects that extra "edge". ie. What makes for creating a better mousetrap. Or, perhaps it's just the perfectionism touch that passion adds, which delivers that extra edge. :-)
Really good questions.
Thank you!
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