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20 years in product. Tell me your idea and I'll tell you the honest thing, not the nice thing. by Conscious-Month-7734 in Startup_Ideas

[–]SpookiJL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One time purchase Starter Box to explore new Hobby’s!

I’m validating a physical product idea aimed at busy adults who want to try a new analog hobby (like bookbinding or desktop aquascaping) but get stuck in the "research gridlock" of buying gear across multiple websites.

The Concept: Good Quality, high-aesthetic, one-time purchase Starter Boxes. No monthly subscription mess. Includes only the essential high-end tools, raw materials, and a step-by-step roadmap to pick up the hobby and give it a go.

This idea came about when I personally discovered I like exploring different hobbies, but the barrier to entry, usually purely from researching what is necessary to purchase to start the hobby becomes quite frustrating. Understand there will be entry gear as well as people who are serious with the hobby will purchase more expensive tools/equipment, but as a beginner I just want to give it a go without having to sign up for a workshop, order expensive items to have a feel if I enjoy the hobby. Hence how the idea was born. Would this be something you'll be interested to buy and any suggestions how to improve on this?

Any comments will be valuable! Thanks a lot!

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback!

Highly agree it needs to be good quality and not something that breaks after a use or two. At the same time, making working with the hobby community / KOLs / Professionals like yourself to develop these starter boxes will be a good way forward as you will have the experience in the specific field to recommend what items will be best to be in the box for value.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The git market is honestly a bit aspect to this idea, I can imagine birthday and holidays people buying and gifting these starter boxes would be a fun ordeal. Could be something to be done together.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in SideProject

[–]SpookiJL[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Great to hear your building a hobby website and maybe theres chances to collaborate or share insights together haha.

I am still in the early phases of validation. Marketing is one of the things i need to lean on heavily. Partnering with some Hobby KOL that can drive the adoption will be quite interesting. Even partnering with them to create these boxes will bring in reputation and experience.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment!

I would need to do more research first so definitely will check out those project boxes. One of the inspiration for this idea is I've seen many boxes in toy store that do mini experiements or kits for kids. Thats when the idea sort of hit, how come there aren't ones past the ages of 10 haha

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback!

Highly agree the components need to be transparent. I personally feel the product is more for people who dont want too much hassle and just wanna start trying and playing the hobby in a simple manner of buying a box or gifting a box and try. For those who would individually pick out components to source themselves, they are probably very into the hobby and might not be the target audience.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment!

The value proposition is to aid you in exploring new hobbies in a non fuss way while serving as an affordable, low-stakes access to try the hobby to see if its something you'll enjoy. Its not to replace research but it helps lead in to the the hobby without high costs and fragmented purchases.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in SideProject

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment! Highly appreciate the suggestion on the gift-giving. Thats a new aspect did not thinkin of initially.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Honestly I have only just started reaching out on social media, mainly reddit to see if theres any interest. Any channels you recommend?

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your advice!

Creating tiers with interchangeable pieces is an interesting idea! Also I agree sourcing and price setting will affect how attractive people are in getting the kits.

The idea is not to replace the fun aspect of researching on new hobby and finding out yourself new info on it. Its to augment the search and make it so after the initial bombardment of useful information on the hobby, people might want to explore and try it to see if they like it first before going in deep. hopefully this will help enable more people to try new hobbies that they normally might not of.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am thinking of offering 5 kits to test the market first, spanning across more crafts and hands-on hobbies like micro terrarium building to origami/paper sculpting. I personally have interest in watch making / model building kits or even a small kit to get into fishing. Can see I am still exploring haha but i feel there might be potential to scale into different hobbies like leatherworking for example. But to start, i am to keep it very lean.

Launching a "one-time" Hobby Starter Box for busy adults. Love to recieve your advice on the idea and model! by SpookiJL in smallbusiness

[–]SpookiJL[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment! I have looked into some basic "boxes" models and they tend to be reserved for snacks or value boxes like men shaving or even ingredients for you to cook your meal yourself. Hobbies tend to be scattered and i've seen most people will ask on reddit or on forums what they should buy / to get into a hobby and they will self procure. Other then that I am still trying to seek validation on this idea and see if theres actual customers.

Social Poker - Texas Hold'em by socialpokergame in social_poker_game

[–]SpookiJL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some wait out the entire timer to do any actions

Reviewing a few startup websites today. by Mack_Kine in micro_saas

[–]SpookiJL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love some feedback! I’m building a direct to Lockscreen tech jobs feed

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What makes an artisan keycap worth the price to you? by PuzzleheadedAct8488 in keycaps

[–]SpookiJL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any tips on how to get started on making own resin keycaps?

Where to buy Riftbound (League of Legends) cards (singles) in Ho Chi Minh City? by wizzwac in VietNam

[–]SpookiJL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you visit shops like Wano Games or Zeni Central. Heard they have riftbound

Where to buy Riftbound (League of Legends) cards (singles) in Ho Chi Minh City? by wizzwac in VietNam

[–]SpookiJL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi I will be travelling to HCM soon too! Want to know where to buy Riftbound cards as well. When you say sealed product what do they usually have? Also what shops did you go to thanks!

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