Resources to make a physical product?
Are there resources/accounts to follow for someone interested in making a physical product for the first time?
Anyone out there go through designing the product, then Kickstarter, then manufacturing, then distribution etc...? it's all newsletters and ebooks nowadays (not a bad thing.. just saying!)
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We launched a consumer IOT product through Kickstarter. Wish I had known more about scale and distribution beforehand! If I was doing it over, I would have kept the initial product simpler and focused more on distribution channels.
I don't have any specific resources to recommend otherwise
Did anything go wrong with your distribution?
I would have focused more on where and how I planned to sell the product before making it. Kickstarter is great to get a bunch of orders out the door, but then where to sell? Website traffic takes time to build for direct sales, Amazon can work very well, but also can takes time to get sales volume up. For us the result was lots of sales through Kickstarter, then low sales volume for a while while trying to get new sales channels working.
Just some things to think about and plan for.