Our front of house, customer-facing products include self-ordering kiosks, mobile apps, digital menu boards and self-service order pickup systems with a digital status board," Young says.
When the company turned to crowdfunding (people were essentially pre-ordering the product) to get started last summer, it quickly raised $50,000.
Prior to crowdfunding campaigns, the idea of pre-ordering a product that had never been produced was virtually unheard of.
The fact that promised delivery date appears uncorrelated with dollars raised is also interesting since it indicates consumers are happy to wait when pre-ordering a product.
In the past, crowdfunding has been limited to pledging donations or pre-ordering products, on platforms, such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Backers of hardware projects on Kickstarter are essentially pre-ordering products, letting entrepreneurs know if their idea has a customer base and then funding the first batch of goods.
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But most early adopters know this all too well — meaning there can be a masochistic streak in pre-ordering and pledging merely on a promise of product.
The company says it will reveal more product information on LiveWire, as well as details about the pre-ordering process, in January 2019.
"Even when you finally found a project, there was no indication on the page as to whether a product was out to market," says Mr Fellig.His initial pass was a visual directory of links to the direct-ordering pages belonging to the designers of popular crowdfunded products, like the Elevation Dock and Pen Type-A.
But if you already sold, all these products are up for pre-ordering right now with the Revue going for $300.
