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The wood bezel is kind of ugly & cheap looking. The audience for this is likely to be tech people and users who want to show off their calendar or manage their
by iamleppert 6y ago
The wood bezel is kind of ugly & cheap looking. The audience for this is likely to be tech people and users who want to show off their calendar or manage their time with calendar invites. I think this could do well with a more contemporary frame. You could market it to people as a solution to forgetting meetings; the price would have to be low enough (sub $100) to trigger people’s impulse buying. The lower the price the more likely you will be to get a sale.
Do a test on Facebook with different price points and see which one produces better conversions: you don’t need to actually have the product available to buy yet. This product is mostly going to live or die based on the marketing & pricing.
- jitl 6y agoThere’s no accounting for taste. I’d prefer a wood frame to some kind of LED emissive plastic or metal
- azinman2 6y agoExcept it’s not particularly nice word and the proportions are all off.
- konschubert 6y agoFair.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoA delicate chrome bezel might work though. One of the appeals of the e-paper though is the "natural" look of it — as though it is paper. The wood frame is in keeping with that.
- konschubert 6y agoI actually like the wood as material per se, but I still want to improve a bit on the processing. I'd love to lower the price, too. I don't know yet if it's possible.
- _Microft 6y agoBesides the bezel being wide compared to the actual screen, there is nothing else wrong with it, in my opinion.
- Aeolun 6y agoI think the price point is about right for those tech bro’s that want to buy this to show off. I don’t think you should try to compete with consumer grade stuff.
- sixothree 6y agoI like the wood, but I'm not fond of the choice.
- konschubert 6y agoYea, I'll try to find something with less texture for sure.
- wpearse 6y agoHave you been to a shop that does picture framing? I wonder if you are trying to re-invent (or at least DIY) a picture frame -- you can get a high quality custom-sized picture frame made at a very reasonable price. The mitres will be perfect :) (I haven't seen the reverse of your product, so there may be a constraint I'm not aware of.)
- konschubert 6y agoThere are some constraints on the back, so I can't use an off-the-shelf frame. But you're right, I have to be careful not to DIY a wheel :D
- fastball 6y agoWhy not just make it in a way that allows people to more easily BYOF?