Comments on: People-Powered Products

By: Jauder Ho

Jauder Ho — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:48:41 +0000

Derek,

I have one. Too bad it only exists on my Moleskine right now. =)

But I am strongly considering it amongst other plans/options.

By: idealist

idealist — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:34:44 +0000

here another…
Idealist > dreamed objects
a platform for designers and creators to publish and share their creativity.
http://idealist.blinkr.net/

the point #3 could be done with Ponoko(a kind of Lulu for physical products) http://www.ponoko.com/

By: Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:28:36 +0000

Here’s another example of people-powered products: http://www.membersproject.com

American Express members can post world-changing ideas, vote and comment on each one, and the winning idea will become a reality.

By: Lee LeFever

Lee LeFever — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:19:12 +0000

I glad to see you’re asking this Derek (and that the Clue Unit podcast was the starting point). Like we discussed, I think this is an emerging business model and there are just not that many examples to date.

I don’t think it fits the criteria, but Icon Buffet has an interesting model. http://www.iconbuffet.com/
They sell icons, but they also have a community that trades icons they created on a barter-basis using things like stamps, tokens, badges and points. I don’t think that the Icon Buffet folks are selling icons produced by the community, but I’m not 100% on that.

Thanks again for coming on the show…

By: Somebaudy

Somebaudy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:28:11 +0000

hm… what if someone were to print a paper version of wikipedia ?

By: sue

sue — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:15:49 +0000

so if we gave you access?

By: Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:11:34 +0000

Ok, criteria 4 is: It has to exist and be accessible. By me. ;-)

By: sue

sue — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:07:42 +0000

I’m working on one right now that is in closed beta and does all that.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:01:41 +0000

Would you consider software tangible?

Open source projects like FireFox can be contributed to by any one either for the main project or in the form of add-ons, and depend on the community for new feature ideas and bug reports (they also prioritize bug fixes based on community input). The out come is software. FireFox isn’t produced and sold but other software is sold as physical CDs in stores.

By: Sandor Weisz

Sandor Weisz — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:36:23 +0000

American Idol. You can argue the “wisdom” part of point #2, but it certainly fits all three criteria.