Yep and most will never get made:(

Are we there yet?

Watching developments at Q reminds of the time I was handed a crisp $5 bill by an uncle at the age of 7.
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What was the venture financing number I came across a few months ago which is floating the Q balloon -- 20 mill or so?

Are we there yet?

I think there are a lot of promising runners here that will end up in other stables. I post things I WANT, not things I invent. Quirky isn't interested and anybody on the planet can see it. I have many true inventions, but no ambition. Why would I pay Quirky 10 bucks to post them on the internet? I can do THAT myself.

I didn't answer your question. It takes a lot of misses to get a hit and while I disagree with their choices, they have to think commercially. They need one huge hit. One little thing they can sell millions of, to get the ball rolling. But that's not what they're choosing. It's impossible to know what their true intentions are.

And they seem to have an obsession with cords and cables. ROFL!!

There are 30 or 40 items chosen and they are picking an average of 7 new ideas a week to add on top of the pile, some of the ideas they chose months and months ago have been shelved and forgotten. How can they research,prototype, and effectively build market and sell all they have on their plate now? I have had influence on products chosen and prototyped 8 months ago that made it past presales but still have only future earnings and not real money. What ever happened to Ray or Cush or Bloom? Hard to spend puffery when the world runs on real money lol

They need to slow down. They need to pick only 1 or 2 amazing ideas a weeek and slowly and deliberately and passionately design them along with the community into highly INNOVATIVE MEGAHIT SELLING PRODUCTS!
preferably mine.:)

I agree.

In the past, the Town Meetings have been the place where new products are announced in bulk. Think good thoughts :)

Cindy, one of the plugs/cables IS the megahit, that is why all the "clones".

Doesn't it take a good 6 -10 months for an idea to become a great product. You don't want Q to rush through it.They have a lot on their plate.

The "Q" is too slow about bring ideas to life. Infomercials are taking the ideas and running with them. The "Q" needs more manufactures and good marketing people help to produce and market the products. Another good thing would be is to let the community know what manufactures they have and we can concentrate on concepts that we know can be manufactured and marketed.They have given us a list of the retailers, why not the manufactures.Picking a product then locating a manufacture is not a good way to go. Its called connections, connections and more connections.

IDK... Atleast with presale we had a visual and a goal to get to the next stage. Now I don't know what's going on. I think Presale was Q's own twist on kickstarter. Products were made and could be presented to retailers.

They have so many things on the go,that they are sitting on their hands on many ideas they have picked in the past,and not finishing what they started in a timely manner.I know what they think,I think?They see something new and say Oh we have to get that before someone else does,suddenly you are way ahead of where you should be.Cleaning up this backlog will soon turn into an overwhelming task,if it's not already.
Just like in an individuals life when things start to pile up you focus on the immediate and tend to neglect things in the past until someone gets fed up and brings the issues up,and sometimes that can turn bad.With all of the new employees,older ideas seem to be neglected in favour of the new.Newer employees want to make their mark,and it seems to me that they are full ahead Fred on newer ideas that come to them during their time started at Quirky. I think that Quirky is unconsciously falling into this hole.
I think that they can handle it if they can get current,and start tidying up the clutter.
Slow down and FOCUS Quirky. Oh and have a nice day :)

@all, I kid. But bringing a product to market is not fast, regardless of how many people are behind it. It takes time to design, prototype, check molds, do design changes on the molds, verify functionality, improve on the initial design, fix production problems, redesign some more. Some times it might take a man week just to figure out how to fix a little tiny corner of a device. Add to that marketing, promotions, and having to change the promotion materials around the design changes, and it can all be overwhelming.
 
ASOTV brings less than ten products a year to market, and I bet they are doing them at a breakneck pace. Quirky is pretending to bring 100 products a year to market. There is no physical way I can see a company doing that.
 
We can all start saying: "Are we there yet?" all we want. But the reality of product development is what it is. That pipeline will continue to get longer and longer unless some recognition of this fact of life is made.