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Thursday September 10, 2009
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It's hard not to love Quirky, the community of online inventors where ideas becomes concepts, and concepts become products. Last month, I covered the DigiDudes, tripods with attitude, and I'm happy to say that the 'dudes are now a selling product--Quirky doesn't manufacture products until it gets enough pre-sale commitments, and DigiDudes met that goal. On the downside, they cost $24.99 now, instead of the original $19.99.
Quirky next gave us the Scratch-n-Scroll--they've built a better mouse pad. It lets you write notes with your finger or an included stylus, for those times when you're on the phone and need to jot something down quickly. Scratch-n-Scroll is already for sale for a low $14.99.
The Quirky machine keeps on rolling: Its community just created two 24-hour Apple products, a kickstand case for the new iPod Nano and a clip-on cord wrap for Apple power adapters. Both are currently up for pre-sale.
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September 11, 2009 1:47 AM
Part of what Quirky does is pay community members for submitting the winning product idea and for influencing, or voting for, the winning product. The folks behind Quirky are also behind Kluster(www.kluster.com) and namethis(www.namethis.com).
Namethis was a site that allowed users to submit products or companies that needed naming. Community members submitted names and voted on them. Winning "namers" and those that voted were to be paid for their effort. Namethis shut down several weeks ago owing many community members a lot of money. Namethis continued for months accepting money from clients that waned an item named, but never shared this money with community members. Finally, they announced they were having financial problems and closed up shop with some vague promises of starting back up at some time in the future and promises to pay us.
While this Quirky idea sounds very interesting, be very careful with your dealings with Kluster and Quirky. They don't seem to understand what "community" means.