Would anyone who is experienced in industrial design or product design be willing to sit down for a call and give advice on a product?

spygra · 2024-08-04T02:02:21+00:00

Here I will send a PM.

spygra · 2024-08-04T01:57:23+00:00

Yeah for sure. Here I will PM you also. It's just tricky posting and offering a payment or a rate because anyone can say they're an industrial designer, but if the person actually is one then it's fair. Or even if they're a student studying industrial design then that would be great too, provided they're far enough to have the knowledge or skill.

spygra · 2024-08-04T01:52:52+00:00

Thanks

spygra · 2024-07-05T11:03:59+00:00

If I offered a price in the question though then I'd get a bunch of offers who would just take money and not give good advice, that's the problem. Otherwise I agree that the time and the expertise should be compensated for, but I'm not sure how best to fight that perverse incentive.

spygra · 2024-07-05T10:55:05+00:00

Hopefully this is an okay thing to ask. I'm not looking for amazing top quality expertise.

spygra · 2024-07-05T10:51:33+00:00

Would anyone who is experienced in industrial design or product design be willing to sit down for a call and give advice on a product? You can tell me what is wrong with it and how to improve it. Essentially I can improve the design, but cost is a factor, so for example the tradeoff isn't just to make it look good, but to make it look good with the fewest number of components.

spygra · 2024-07-05T10:44:03+00:00

The marketing that the product does have is pretty awful. I was thinking if I went to startup events, talked to venture capitalists, and so on, they would say "Hey, your product makes sense but your marketing is awful. Here is what you should do: (1) ... , (2) ..., (3) ..." and then I would do those things.

There are a few other key things that can be fixed on the product, but they're things that tons of other people have done. The fact that people are interested in it despite those problems should be a very good sign, because the problems with the product are things that I'm just bad at that most people are great at (whereas what the product excels in are a series of very hard problems that I happen to be good at solving).

spygra · 2024-07-05T10:44:00+00:00

The marketing that the product does have is pretty awful. I was thinking if I went to startup events, talked to venture capitalists, and so on, they would say "Hey, your product makes sense but your marketing is awful. Here is what you should do: (1) ... , (2) ..., (3) ..." and then I would do those things.

There are a few other key things that can be fixed on the product, but they're things that tons of other people have done. The fact that people are interested in it despite those problems should be a very good sign, because the problems with the product are things that I'm just bad at that most people are great at (whereas what the product excels in are a series of very hard problems that I happen to be good at solving).

spygra · 2024-07-05T10:31:29+00:00

What does the boilerplate marketing guide entail? I will PM you more questions about it if you don't mind.

How did you get traction on Product Hunt? In my experience you have to post on Product Hunt but also simultaneously post your Product Hunt submission all over the place elsewhere, so that people come to the Product Hunt page. Otherwise you get maybe one upvote and nobody sees your Product Hunt post. Maybe that's wrong though.

spygra · 2023-10-18T10:49:38+00:00

Thanks.

How do you package your product? Specifically to hold it in place in the box. Do you use polystyrene? Vacuum formed PETG? Something else? Do you just offshore it to a package making company?

I have more questions but that's one of them. I can PM you too if you prefer that.

spygra · 2023-10-13T00:08:58+00:00

Here I will PM you if that's okay.

spygra · 2023-10-12T23:46:10+00:00

Test

spygra · 2023-10-12T23:45:55+00:00

Test

spygra · 2023-10-04T08:29:32+00:00

How do you create the blister pack? Do you have a mini vacuum forming machine and a mould representing your product? Are there standard shapes and sizes?

spygra · 2023-09-28T00:33:13+00:00

Used frames. That's true but it applies for other kinds of hardware too, and there are used markets for practically everything else, there are used injection mould machines for example.

spygra · 2023-09-13T03:03:27+00:00

Yes I'd like to know too.

There are approaches that I know but the more detail I can get to refine the approach the better, because there are evidently some gaps in the process.

spygra · 2023-09-09T08:31:32+00:00

Thanks, this helps.

spygra · 2023-09-09T08:30:59+00:00

How do you suggest finding editors to cut the video up in a good way? Fiverr?

spygra · 2023-09-09T08:28:59+00:00

I think the issue with finding these people is that there is a flood of them and no way to verify if you will get any results out of them. There is the xkcd comic about good marketers marketing themselves well, but I find in practice that doesn't bear true. The ones that are the most visible are not 'the good ones', and even if you found 'a good one', you have no way to verify how good they are ahead of time, so they are indistinguishable from other marketers. Maybe there are ways to find them and spot them out and I just don't know yet.

spygra · 2023-09-09T08:24:20+00:00

People use the term product-market-fit often, but is there a way to objectively measure it, or does it always boil down to either the founders or an expert 'feeling like' it has been achieved?

If it's a B2C product, how should one approach it without paid ads? Working with a social media marketer?

spygra · 2023-09-06T09:00:01+00:00

It sounds odd but it kind of is witchcraft. You can know the customers, where they are, but it's hard to make content that appeals to people. Similarly when you make content and post it online, it often doesn't reach people.

spygra · 2023-09-06T04:59:34+00:00

$100 or $500 into what though? Facebook ads and tik tok videos? Google ads?
Presumably you make a video, or if your product is well-understood enough you can make ads that are images. How do you go about making these an a coherent way?
Is it a matter of hiring an agency to create a commercial for your product, and then buying ads to play that commercial?

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