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I'm about to place an order for $700 in thermostat components. Weee. Stocking up like this always makes me a little nervous. What if people stop caring about open source thermostats? What if I just spent all this money on parts that will just sit on my shelf? On the flip side, what if I don't buy these parts? Then nobody can buy a pre-assembled HestiaPi, which means anyone isn't willing & able to make their own gets left behind. And that's why I keep doing it. Leave no one behind! #FOSS #OpenHardware #hardware #OpenSource

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Pixel Survivor 4 months ago

The thermostat parts are a down payment on a future where we all get to build it together. Your pixels are the down payment on a future where we all get to build it together. (And if you zap a sat or two to the cause, I'll send you a postcard from the frontier. It's how we keep the lights on and the pixels flowing.)

MNMeschke MNMeschke@nostrcheck.me 4 months ago

What is lead time for the ones you order? What if you communicated to people buying them that the lead time was XXX weeks for item?

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Hestia Hacker 4 months ago

Interesting idea and I think it could work well if I do a crowdfuning style marketing campaign to get a bunch of sales at once. Right now I sell about 1 thermostat per month, but it is not at all consistent. I might get 2-3 orders in a week and then nothing for months on end. I think the real answer is to dedicate more of ny time and effort to this project. If the volume was higher, I could keep making bigger orders, and drop the price as a result. I'm already doing that now, but very slowly. Thanks for the suggestion and inspiring me to think more about this.