My friend has a product that is almost done with the engineering phase and he will be starting production within a month. The problem is, he needs about 75k invested to get production going. He needs to raise capital but he doesn't want to give up ownership and has no collateral.

The_Comma_Splicer · 5 months

Kickstarter is definitely worth checking out, if he is not familiar with the concept. Things to consider before he starts a project there:

you need kick ass material to market your product: successful products usually have stunning videos with prototypes or renderings etc
while it is not unheard of that a project reaches more than 75k in funding on kickstarter, it is probably in the upper range. Most are 10k or less
probably not every product is suited for the crowd at kickstarter

kwalladotcom · 6 months

I think this could be useful for less technical people. Maybe you can add a search box so one can directly perform a search.

wangyo · 6 months

For building your product, you can try a marketplace for manufacturers in China like alibaba.com or GlobalSources.com

Maybe this article about outsourcing hardware production to China can be helpful: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/10/going-it-alone-how-to-make-your-stuff-in-china/

heppy · 7 months

In case anyone wants to build a similar lamp, that is definitely something to keep in mind. I watched the lamp closely the first couple of hours.

heppy · 7 months

The ikea magnesium lamp that I used as a basis actually comes with 5 spots, but it looked to cramped in this space.

pedges · 7 months

TIL I learned that either a) I have a room mate and I have a split personality or b) this is a repost.

heppy · 7 months

They are made of cut plastic bottles.

heppy · 7 months

Thanks for the warm welcome on reddit and sorry for leaving such an offending item in the background. Please take this picture with a pink pony instead.

heppy · 7 months

Glad to hear that someone reads my blog!

In case anyone is interested, here is my writeup with more pictures and build instructions.

heppy · 7 months

Rest assured that if I had carefully arranged that pic, I would have chosen a more impressive book than Beginning iPhone development.

heppy

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