With today being Tindie’s first Cyber Monday, we partnered with some of our small, maker businesses to launch a new feature just in time for today. Seller Coupons! Tindie sellers are now able to make coupons for their products offering discounts or even free shipping. The tindie team is super excited to get this out the door, and a huge thank you to our sellers that helped with today! Just checkout the awesome discounts & a few of the products on sale today!
Over the last 4.5 months, Tindie has grown to cover 21 countries around the world. We are just cranking. To keep up, we took the last few weeks to do some house cleaning. Late last night we pushed the result – a new & improved Tindie!
We have big plans for the future and the updated site & infrastructure will let us execute on that vision But if you have any ideas or feedback, please let me know! From now until the end of hte year, we will be pushing new features every day because, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed…
Happy hacking!
emile
It has been 2 months since tindie went live. Originally supposed to be a side project, that has become impossible. It’s become clear – we are onto something.
In July, we did $646 in transactions. In August, we did over $1,800. Thats close to 300% growth in just 4 weeks!
Almost daily, new gadgets are being listed. Projects from America to the UK to Japan. We are a global community that has shipped to 20 countries, and every continent, except Antarctica.
We are proof that there is a shift happening in how technology is made, bought & sold.
To keep tindie at the forefront, I have been spending every free moment working on the site. The truth is that hasn’t been enough. There has been more to do, than free hours in the day. Well, as of Friday, that has changed…
I am now working on tindie LLC (yes, now a company) full time.
We have a special opportunity before us, and I couldn’t devote only a few hours a day to something that (some) tindie sellers are basing their entire livelihoods on. It is only fair that I also put my energy into getting the site, now company, not just profitable, but sustainable.
My goal is to be working on tindie for years to come. Without your success, the community will fail. I’m now dedicated to making sure you all succeed, and that we can continue to be on the cutting edge of this technological revolution.
thank you again,
emile
maker of tindie.com
August has been a crazy month. tindie has grown in multiples of last month which still blows me away. To keep up, a lot has gone on behind the scenes – including overhauling the backend & moving to a new host. This month is setting up next month’s big announcement so just hold onto your Arduinos & Raspberry Pis!
For Buyers & Sellers:
For Sellers:
And to wrap everything up, I was able to get the @tindie Twitter account. I post updates, links and other fun things around the web. If you are on twitter, please follow!
However as one of my old bosses says, rest up! Once September hits, the real fun beings 🙂
emile
It has been one month since tindie went live.
I can’t thank everyone enough for such a great start and exciting
future. Because the site was started with a public question on reddit,
it seems only fitting to keep it open and public with what has happened
and where the site is going.
Some data from the first month:
New features since the last email:
This has been such a fantastic start. You have made this community
special. The gadgets created, comments, and discussions have been great.
However there is one more thing…
In talking to people, there is a problem that 2 groups have, but share a
commmon solution.
Both of these occasions need a system for pre-ordering. That is the next
big feature coming to tindie.
It’s called Starter\
Allow people to post a gadget or part that must reach a certain number
of orders in a period of time before everyone is charged. If the listing
doesn’t reach the predefined level, then no one is charged.
This will allow more gadgets to be posted without the overhead of a
single order while also helping builders access parts in a pool rather
than pay higher prices individually.
I’m starting to build this feature now, but would love to hear your
feedback here:
https://tindie.com/forum/topic/228/
Thank you all again, and I know we, as a group, can’t wait to see what
you build next.
Here’s to the crazy ones,
emile
tindie is doing fantastic, and I’m still just trying to keep up. In the last week, I made some pretty dramatic changes to setup changes that will come in the next week – hopefully before OSCON. If you are coming to Portland for OSCON, let me know and lets meet up!
New Features
Sellers Corner
For people with gadgets for sale, a few new policy changes. If you do not have the following bits of information filled out, unfortunately, your gadgets will not be available for purchase. Please make sure that all of your gadgets have-
Also please make sure you have your PayPal email saved. I can’t send your funds without it and therefore can’t list your gadgets for sale until that is saved. If you have any questions, just let me know.
Featured Gadget
Iron Man Mark IV Arc Reactor!!! (yes you read that correctly!)
But thanks again everyone. I’m working on some fun features, so be on the lookout!
It has been a crazy week since I opened tindie to the public. The
response & support from everyone has been amazing. Since a lot has
happened in such a short period of time, I thought I’d write a quick
post to log it all.
New Features
Thank you to everyone for your feedback and ideas. Here is a short break
down of the updates made off your emails & tweets –
Most Ordered Gadgets
As far as orders – it has been truly exciting to see people posting
projects & ordering off the site.
Press
And lastly, the press caught wind of what we are up to and wrote a
couple nice things.
But thank you again to everyone for making the kick-off of tindie a huge
success. I can’t wait to see what projects people build in the future.
-emile
tindie is live!
after a few months, countless cups of coffee, and a few thousand users
later, tindie is live. there are already some
really awesome projects up for sale so definitely check them out. if you
aren’t a maker, no problem! join the conversations on the ‘wanted’
section. makers, if you need some inspiration, just look there!
but thanks to everyone for your support & patience. i’ve done a lot of
the upfront work, but i need your help to turn this into a vibrant
community. please tell your friends, makers, hackers, builders and all
around crazy friends to post & buy gadgets.
anyway, thanks again for signing up. only time will tell where it goes
from here.
-emile
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