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>>sberen+(OP)
Selling a product you haven’t tested or built yet to members of the public, classic.

>>MagicM+SW7
That's a pretty ungenerous take. Pushing timelines back doesn't solve the fundamental issue that you don't know what you're going to get when you submit that first large order. I've seen many situations where the samples and the manufacturing are completely different, even produced in different factories.

They didn't do everything perfectly, but this looks like a normal learning curve for product manufacturing. Textile manufacturing would be even steeper.

>>AlotOf+kf8
It's way more than just pushing timelines back. The person took $400k from people without knowing anything about how to provide what those people had already paid for.

>>BrenBa+1A8
That's how most Kickstarters operate. One of my first jobs was at a contract manufacturer that would get hired by ideas people without experiences to make the products reality. Kickstarter campaigns were our bread and butter. Usually they found us after trying it on their own first and failing.