by news | Feb 21, 2015 | Design, Engineering, Pictures, Planning
Readers who have followed the project from the start know we’ve followed the maxim that heave (or up and down motion) is nice to have, but not essential. Lifting the whole platform, and user, is very expensive in terms of power and engineering strength which is...
by news | Feb 12, 2015 | Marketing, Planning, Startups
Normally I write a newsletter and send it out once it’s done right away. I’m hardly an expert, we’ve only sent six. This time I though we’d try something new. Apparently the best time to send mails is around 10am, I guess more people are at...
by news | Aug 31, 2014 | Kickstarter, Planning
I posed this question over on reddit and got an interesting response. “A crowdfunding campaign, in itself and providing you manage it properly, will attract sign ups. Based on my own experience, I now use this rule: 1/3 of the funding goal, based on the expected...
by news | Aug 7, 2014 | Planning
Seems only one person actually looked at the site, but 211 hack attempts were registered by Cloudflare… Next worst offender is the US but they’re also the best customers… :p
by news | Aug 2, 2014 | Planning
One went into my spam folder but at least they sent a decent reply “Unfortunately your requirements are outside of our fabrication capabilities and would have to decline on this occasion.” They advise me to look for a ‘pressings’ company, which...
by news | Aug 1, 2014 | Planning
After I uploaded my RFQ (request for quote) to Alibaba I went to bed and woke up to 10 companies in China asking for more information and giving me quotes. I email 11 British companies and 24 hours later one couldn’t ready my dwg files (the standard file type),...
