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Name your price for an Elevation Dock, help our startup

11 points by netmau5 14y ago

knewter 14y ago
I know this guy and he's awesome. The world's better off if you help his startup out :) I have no iphone though...
septerr 14y ago
Love the name your price part, but even more than that I love the 'what we make' part. Puts fair burden on me.
dartdog 14y ago
Check it out, great guy..
masonhensley 14y ago
If I had an iPhone, this would be right up my alley, but I don't. Anyways, when I went to the product site, something didn't seem consistant. (https://elevationdocks.herokuapp.com/ https://elevationdocks.herokuapp.com/) If you scroll down the page a little, you say something along the lines of "help us fund our next product" vs "pre-order"(in the headline). If your real goal is to muster up some money for new product dev, say that in your headline! I would be more apt to give you extra money in your name your price offer if it was more clear that this was explicitly going toward future product development vs just a pre-order. I know the money ends up in the same place either way, but I hope you get my drift.
- netmau5 14y ago
  Thanks Mason. I was really torn on which point to emphasize.
bulte-rs 14y ago
Just put in an order for one; looks awesome. Also thanks to Dave for the willingness/flexibility to ship a unit to the EU.
netmau5 14y ago
Bummer, looks like the post got killed. Why?
namdnay 14y ago
"Estimated Shipment May, 2011" - I see what you mean by remarkable services and exceptional products...
- t2 14y ago
  Thanks for the heads up. We fixed the typo.
FootballMuse 14y ago
FYI.. Posterous is blocked by my corporate internet. Thus, all the images on your site are blocked except your face at the bottom. Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://posterous.com/ http://posterous.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Social Networking" is not allowed. Notification codes: (1, WEBCAT, BLOCK-WEBCAT...
- t2 14y ago
  Ouch. Bummer. Were you still able to read the article though?
  - FootballMuse 14y ago
    Yes, text is all there. Some sites like this use posterous as a CDN for their images, but all i get is broken images.
    - t2 14y ago
      Yeah in this case we didn't do that. I'll talk with Dave and see about looking out for this in the future. Thanks for the heads up!
eatmyshorts 14y ago
I just tried to order one and got an error on the order page ("Invalid token"?!?). I tried again, and now I'm worried I've ordered 2. Great idea, and it's nice to see you experimenting with different models for gauging interest & setting pricing.
- t2 14y ago
  There are no duplicate charges. The invalid token is an error produced on the processing side. You are all good. Let us know if there are any other concerns.
  - eatmyshorts 14y ago
    Thanks very much!
jamgraham 14y ago
This is definitely a creative way to resell products but are you taking the profits that should goto the person that is actually trying to create the product?
- netmau5 14y ago
  We'd like to think that by funding the original Kickstarter campaign at such a high level, we helped make it possible for the product to be made in the first place. I'm certain that the project's owner is still going to make money on our units too.

11 points by netmau5 14y ago

knewter 14y ago

I know this guy and he's awesome. The world's better off if you help his startup out :) I have no iphone though...

septerr 14y ago

Love the name your price part, but even more than that I love the 'what we make' part. Puts fair burden on me.

dartdog 14y ago

Check it out, great guy..

masonhensley 14y ago

If I had an iPhone, this would be right up my alley, but I don't. Anyways, when I went to the product site, something didn't seem consistant. (https://elevationdocks.herokuapp.com/ https://elevationdocks.herokuapp.com/) If you scroll down the page a little, you say something along the lines of "help us fund our next product" vs "pre-order"(in the headline). If your real goal is to muster up some money for new product dev, say that in your headline! I would be more apt to give you extra money in your name your price offer if it was more clear that this was explicitly going toward future product development vs just a pre-order. I know the money ends up in the same place either way, but I hope you get my drift.

netmau5 14y ago
Thanks Mason. I was really torn on which point to emphasize.

bulte-rs 14y ago

Just put in an order for one; looks awesome. Also thanks to Dave for the willingness/flexibility to ship a unit to the EU.

netmau5 14y ago

Bummer, looks like the post got killed. Why?

namdnay 14y ago

"Estimated Shipment May, 2011" - I see what you mean by remarkable services and exceptional products...

t2 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up. We fixed the typo.

FootballMuse 14y ago

FYI.. Posterous is blocked by my corporate internet. Thus, all the images on your site are blocked except your face at the bottom. Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://posterous.com/ http://posterous.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Social Networking" is not allowed. Notification codes: (1, WEBCAT, BLOCK-WEBCAT...

t2 14y ago
Ouch. Bummer. Were you still able to read the article though?
- FootballMuse 14y ago
  Yes, text is all there. Some sites like this use posterous as a CDN for their images, but all i get is broken images.
  - t2 14y ago
    Yeah in this case we didn't do that. I'll talk with Dave and see about looking out for this in the future. Thanks for the heads up!

eatmyshorts 14y ago

I just tried to order one and got an error on the order page ("Invalid token"?!?). I tried again, and now I'm worried I've ordered 2. Great idea, and it's nice to see you experimenting with different models for gauging interest & setting pricing.

t2 14y ago
There are no duplicate charges. The invalid token is an error produced on the processing side. You are all good. Let us know if there are any other concerns.
- eatmyshorts 14y ago
  Thanks very much!

jamgraham 14y ago

This is definitely a creative way to resell products but are you taking the profits that should goto the person that is actually trying to create the product?

netmau5 14y ago
We'd like to think that by funding the original Kickstarter campaign at such a high level, we helped make it possible for the product to be made in the first place. I'm certain that the project's owner is still going to make money on our units too.