The Results Of My Year-Long Physical Product Experiment

http://needwant.com/p/results-physical-product-experiment/

by j0ncc • 13 years ago

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pclark• 13 years ago

I own a Peel case. It's really great, in fact it's the only case I have ever been satisfied with using.

tedmiston3• 13 years ago

Any you chance you have the "white" model? I'm having a hard time telling from the pictures how translucent it is.

marban• 13 years ago

Any insights where the factories are located and how they found the manufacturing partner?

pdog3• 13 years ago

Your best bet is to find a "Gold" supplier on Alibaba.com.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 13 years ago

Awesome read. BTW, both UPS and USPS (don't know about FedEx, etc) will pickup packages on demand. Of course, if you live in an apartment, this does mean you have to be home at the time.

rbritton• 13 years ago

Last time I did that with FedEx there was a charge for it ($10 I believe). I don't believe that's changed.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 13 years ago

UPS also charges, but IIRC it's less if you have an account with them. Pickup is free with USPS.

Pxtl• 13 years ago

That "exit intent popup" had better not be a big modal thing or else I hate you.

tedmiston3• 13 years ago

It's better than alert()

jere2• 13 years ago

After a lot of back and forth with a few different factories, I managed to find one that could do what I wanted.

This is glossed over, yet I have no idea how I would even start contacting factories.

thruflo2• 13 years ago

Makersrow.com custommade.com fabhub.com

jere2• 13 years ago

Interesting links. The first is for American factories only, which is neat, but I'd be surprised if this case was made in America. I'm familiar with the second link, but I don't believe it's related to factories/mass production. The third link is being squatted on.

createmyaccount3• 13 years ago

Or how to even find them. I think this would typically be easier in the US than in Europe.

pdog3• 13 years ago

Exit offers for Shopify are powered by Sticky[1].

[1] http://www.addsticky.com/

createmyaccount3• 13 years ago

Any idea about their rates? Honestly, this seems pretty easy to set up yourself.

pdog3• 13 years ago

$10.00 / month

createmyaccount3• 13 years ago

Great post. Mind sharing the company that did the packaging and shipping for you? (Or any alternatives)

colinbartlett• 13 years ago

I'd love to buy several of these. Would you consider accepting Bitcoin? I'm always looking for ways to spend it and I see you're on Shopify which should make it very, very easy.

nedwin• 13 years ago

Have you considered outsourcing your shipping to a third party logistics company? Slightly added cost but takes away a bunch of the pain as well.

hengheng• 13 years ago

We’re almost at the stage now where we will never have to even see another iPhone case.

"We successfully made the transition from being an ad agency with attached warehouse and fulfillment center to being solely an ad agency."

So you never had anything to do with the physical product anyway, no development or manufacturing or anything. Naturally you had to streamline your business process to reflect this, but it's not what I'd call a "Physical Product Experiment".

wehadfun• 13 years ago

So this is the same guy that bought the Las Vegas apartment and rents it on Airbnb?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6655492

The Results Of My Year-Long Physical Product Experiment

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