Grapple with this

Not only are many of the ideas on the funding sites cool in different ways but, the funding concepts themselves are amazingly workable.

If you talked closely to one of our arb industry inventors it does not make great financial sense to develop a product and take it to market. It's only when you factor in driving passion that we have people pushing forward. With a Kickstarter type campaign you could spread out a lot of the financial risk. An inventor is still going to give his all, but he will have some $ to work with and will feel like he has some partnership and people that believe in him from the get go.

If I heard and remember in the ball park of right the guys who put up the idea to build bee hives where you can turn on a tap and get honey out without opening them had a target of raising $400,000. They hit something like 1.2 million - OVERNIGHT.

Now I wouldn't expect to see that on an arb product maybe. But wouldn't it be nice to get $10,000 more to work with early on and to feel and see that a bunch of people believed in what you're doing?
 
Merle, the hive you're talking about is the Flow. I've been watching it with interest, as once upon a time, I had a couple hives of my own. They're up to $4.6 million now, with a month left.

A recent kickstarter I pledged into was Exploding Kittens, a card game. They broke quite a few kickstarter records, 1000% funded in the first day. They were seeking 10k, wound up getting $8.7 million.
 
Ohhh....!

Any arb inventions you assumed you'd never be able to afford to produce?

It's kind of fun, you give some money to help something along you believe in and you feel a little bit a part of it. It works with human nature.

A lot more will come to fruition as a result of these funding methods.
 
If you can get it going Tuttle that would be cool. It will change our industry to have this used by arb inventors.

I will always remind people ....Tuttle did it first.
 
Yea I keep being tempted to punt for it :) thats why I posted it here.

I'd like to make my own - but working SS like that is not fun without the right tools.
 
I am unfamiliar with how the "Kickstarter" and similar programs work. With so much money being drawn in, my ignorant Mr. Everyman question is "How do you keep con artists from ripping off a bunch of people by taking their money and then simply never shipping a product?"
 
You don't. My wife listens to a podcast (tech security?), "The Grumpy Old Geeks." I think she says they have issues with Kickstarter etc. because of some fraud, unfullfilled expectations. I just watched the Kickstarter vids and past projects from the original post as well as read up on some Kickstarter basics.

Biggest safety mechanism is probably who you put money in with. This team has 6 previous successes or so. And I will never give more than I am willing to walk away from.
 
Gorman said:
I'm kinda smitten with this grappling hook. I wonder how much it weighs?
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I am too. Think I might 'fund' hoping to get a titanium grapple and a larger unit if they do that.


Shawn said:
Pretty neat concept! Not sure i see an application for tree work, but still really cool. And for the price, im thinkin bout gettin in the kickstarter...
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Shawn are you familiar with using a grapple to aid in traversing over to another tree, non life support, as shown in one of Reg's videos?
 
There is no fraud protection, but with the small world that is the arb industry, I don't think it would be a problem. If the right people from the buzz asked me to back them in kickstarter, I'd be happy to.....seem to remember a foldable, two handled ascender that I was very interested in not very long ago.....I'm looking at you oceans.....
 
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