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| Howard_Casto:
Not to be a dick, but you recoup your development costs by selling your product. If he's got the guns working and ready for production then it's time to just sell them, not try another kickstarter. If he isn't that far long, like Mike said, without the aid of a manufacturer this probably isn't going to get built. |
| Titchgamer:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 14, 2019, 10:53:27 pm ---Not to be a dick, but you recoup your development costs by selling your product. --- End quote --- Exactly, But you need a product to sell and manufacture of PCBs and moulded shells aint cheap. |
| thet0ast3r:
I dont want to sound rude, but I just can`t imagine he bought expensive equipment, if there are companies that make you custom pcbs and send them to you for very little money. It would not be very economic for such a small batch product to get loads of machinery. I'm guessing most of his investment was his time. If you tinker a little, you probably have tools like a 3d printer at home. |
| Titchgamer:
--- Quote from: thet0ast3r on March 15, 2019, 05:07:27 am ---I dont want to sound rude, but I just can`t imagine he bought expensive equipment, if there are companies that make you custom pcbs and send them to you for very little money. It would not be very economic for such a small batch product to get loads of machinery. I'm guessing most of his investment was his time. If you tinker a little, you probably have tools like a 3d printer at home. --- End quote --- Yeah but you cant mass produce gun shells with a 3D printer. And the software creation side of things has literally taken him years. Not really sure why everyone is being so negative about this, If you dont want to back the KS dont its a simple risk vs reward thing. We dont even know how much hes asking for atm but if you lot can do better with less then why aint you posting about it or selling the idea to Nintendo or Sony? Everyone is moaning they want a good lightgun solution that works well. So I have provided a update on one someone has tried to make but he aint a multi national and needs some support. This is a opportunity for a well supported solution with what I think is going to be a sort of open source software so the community can get behind it to make improvements and continue development for future platforms and solutions. The dude may make the best lightgun in the world or he may do a bunk to Hawaii who knows but if he aint given a chance then we will never know will we? |
| thet0ast3r:
Maybe I was a bit harsh, I just have a bad gut feeling, that if he (maybe already) spent too much on tooling, parts & r&d, and he has to set the price too high, very few people are going to buy the gun. I don`t think you cant print 3d models in higher volume, look at the different sla printers. They can very high quality, very detailed parts. I think it would really make sense to wait until he sees how many ppl are going to back the kickstarter, and then decide wether or not he gets e.g. injection molded pieces. But lets see, only one more month to go. P.S.: I`m hoping that this is going to be a great product, too. |
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