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* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I thin

* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-unsuccessful.html http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...

markdown 13y ago
Hey that's a great idea. I have a feeling it would have had a better chance of success in the US.
sethberg 13y ago
As nice as the machined metal looks, they'd cost pennies to produce as injection molded parts and would be just as functional.
X4 13y ago
Did you consider using alternative materials? If you switched to 3D Printed materials, I think the costs would be much less and you could have funded it with the amount of money you already collected.
- zacmartin 13y ago
  I used 3D printing during the prototyping stage, and even using a friend of a friend's printer it still worked out to be roughly $60 AUD a print.
nekopa 13y ago
I think it's a great idea too, definitely need to work on beerend 2.0. Couple of suggestions though: Shipping: if you can analyse where backers are coming from, why not try to cut a deal with stores or brew shops/brew pubs which you could strategically locate where your biggest clusters of customers are. That way you could ship in bulk to single locations, and mail out certificates for backers to go and pick up their beerend. Explain why you're doing this to the backers, and for the stores, send extra they can sell, but they have to hold the reserve amount for backers. Plus you would be sending people to their stores that take their beer storage seriously, so they may turn out to be good customers. Marketing: Bottle end: maybe change the marketing focus of the product, as you said it can be used for wine bottles, cans whatever. Go all out, dev the 2.0 for glass shelves versions, patent it and sell it to fridge makers Good luck!
brianbreslin 13y ago
Love the idea. A big market for this would be cans as well. Did you think of partnering with quirky? P.s. I would love to try printing this on my replicator2

markdown 13y ago

Hey that's a great idea. I have a feeling it would have had a better chance of success in the US.

sethberg 13y ago

As nice as the machined metal looks, they'd cost pennies to produce as injection molded parts and would be just as functional.

X4 13y ago

Did you consider using alternative materials? If you switched to 3D Printed materials, I think the costs would be much less and you could have funded it with the amount of money you already collected.

zacmartin 13y ago
I used 3D printing during the prototyping stage, and even using a friend of a friend's printer it still worked out to be roughly $60 AUD a print.

nekopa 13y ago

I think it's a great idea too, definitely need to work on beerend 2.0. Couple of suggestions though: Shipping: if you can analyse where backers are coming from, why not try to cut a deal with stores or brew shops/brew pubs which you could strategically locate where your biggest clusters of customers are. That way you could ship in bulk to single locations, and mail out certificates for backers to go and pick up their beerend. Explain why you're doing this to the backers, and for the stores, send extra they can sell, but they have to hold the reserve amount for backers. Plus you would be sending people to their stores that take their beer storage seriously, so they may turn out to be good customers. Marketing: Bottle end: maybe change the marketing focus of the product, as you said it can be used for wine bottles, cans whatever. Go all out, dev the 2.0 for glass shelves versions, patent it and sell it to fridge makers Good luck!

brianbreslin 13y ago

Love the idea. A big market for this would be cans as well. Did you think of partnering with quirky? P.s. I would love to try printing this on my replicator2