Have you designed, produced, and sold your own product?

Has anyone here ever developed a products and sold it by yourself? If you have, share your story with us. What difficulties did you face? What should one do when it's time to sell a product?

And it's ok to do a little shameless promotion.

I know a lot of people here could use a few tips in this area.

Cabe

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0 nlarson over 13 years ago

Hi all - I know this thread is a few years old, but very closely tied to a thread I posted about an article I found about crowd funding over in the Open Source Hardware group. I thought I'd post here and get this group's input on it as well. Have any of you used crowd sourcing platforms like Indigogo or Kickstarter for your products?

Thanks for letting me jump in here!
Nicole
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to nlarson

Hi Cabe Catwell,
5 years later but better late then never I can show an example and answer to your question that worked out globally.
It is called Safecast, a crowd sourced network of radiation monitoring and developing, improving and selling their own i- and b-Geigi geiger counters with the help of global volunteers and some commercial companies.
The project was triggered by the great North Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster back in March 2011 which caused the subsequent Nuclear disaster of Fukushima NPP1.
History | Safecast
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi again Cabe Atwell and Nicole Fusz,

2015/7/7: Latest update to the SafeCast story from Slovenia and a new Open Source product called "AirCast" (now in prototyping phase) for monitoring air pollution is on its way:
http://ricomet2015.sckcen.be/~/media/Files/Ricomet2015/Monday/P_4_2_Brown.pdf?la=en
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi again Cabe Atwell and Nicole Fusz,

2015/7/7: Latest update to the SafeCast story from Slovenia and a new Open Source product called "AirCast" (now in prototyping phase) for monitoring air pollution is on its way:
http://ricomet2015.sckcen.be/~/media/Files/Ricomet2015/Monday/P_4_2_Brown.pdf?la=en
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