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Quirky is a social product development company. Your product ideas come in, the Quirky community and team work on them, we sell the product worldwide, and then we share the revenue with the inventor and all influencers.

By enabling this fluid conversation between our global community of influencers and Quirky's expert product design team, we are able to accomplish what was once unthinkable: bringing one brand new product concept from sketch to store each week.

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You have a product idea that’s been bouncing around your head for weeks. But you have no time, no money, and no idea how to get that product out of your head and onto shelves. Well, we do. Drop the $10 submission fee and post that brilliant idea on Quirky.

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The Quirky community and design team take it from there. They evaluate all the ideas that have been submitted, and if your idea is good enough, they’ll make you that week’s winner.

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Now’s when the fun really starts. At this point, the community weighs in on everything from your product’s design to its name, tagline, and logo. Thousands of people -- industrial designers, engineers, graphic artists, and average Joes -- add their two cents throughout the process.

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Turn over the reins to our top-notch industrial designers and mechanical engineers. They take your idea, create a 2D sketch, translate that sketch into a 3D render, and come up with shelf-ready photorealistic images of your product in no time.

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Based on your product’s price point, we’ll determine how many pre-sale commitments we need before we can move the product into production. Social sales tools enable community members to stimulate sales by promoting the product to friends and family. The more you promote, the quicker you’ll be able to…

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Once we hit your product’s pre-sales threshold, it will move into production and make its way to customers' hands within a couple of months. Cha-ching! From that point on, you’ll be able to monitor sales and keep track of your earnings on your account page. You can access your cash by direct deposit, check, or international wire transfer.