LENSwaste that week, I could prioritise gardening
since I knew it was due to be collected.
My post was shared widely, and people
asked if they could buy one. I’d only made it
for myself, but it seemed unappreciative to
ignore people’s interest. The cost of setting
up manufacturing was significant as I would
need to have moulds made for production
runs, and I also needed a critical mass to
make the server-side code worth creating. I
would need to create a BinDayCator server
on the internet that could process councils’
webpages, all of which had different
formats. I launched a Kickstarter as soon as
I could to prove the demand for this product.
If I had enough customers, it could work.
Unfortunately, the Kickstarter failed to meet
its goal, but I did learn an awful lot. I’d never
created a Kickstarter before, and that was
almost an entire project in itself.
Councils and companies were interested
in providing BinDayCators for their users,
but none have yet wanted a big enough
rollout for the critical mass needed for
manufacturing. Big organisations have a lot
of inertia because they have a lot of factors
to consider, something makers are not
encumbered with. We can just imagine it,
make it, and use it.
Above
Time to take a trip
to the pavement
Right
Dividers let us light
up our indicator
in sections