Re:Kickstarter's Economic Impact Measured at $5B
by sokoloff on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:31PM
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Another front page article now is a teenager that built a software-defined radio from scratch. For fun. With an FPGA, a home-designed 6-layer board, BGA parts, hand placed, and reflowed in an oven he made in only 3 spins. Ridiculous respect.
Now that he's built it and people are asking to buy it, he's not even sure if wants to (bother to) sell any.
I think there's probably about as much creative/hobby work getting done as before. Now, you're just hearing about the wantrepreneurs who can't get a Kickstarter funded. Those people probably weren't going to build something in the absence of Kickstarter/Indiegogo either.
Now that he's built it and people are asking to buy it, he's not even sure if wants to (bother to) sell any.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12181350
I think there's probably about as much creative/hobby work getting done as before. Now, you're just hearing about the wantrepreneurs who can't get a Kickstarter funded. Those people probably weren't going to build something in the absence of Kickstarter/Indiegogo either.