Got a Product Idea? Quirky Makes it Real, Makes You Money

It only agreed in order to be a thought tossed round the table a few several weeks ago.

Jenny Tyler, 32, ended up being out with 3 iPhone-toting pals who wished that their phones stood acamera flash just like Tyler's BlackBerry.

So, throughout your evening, the particular group played armchair inventor along with emergedwith all the concept regarding an iPhone case with a built-in flash. Along With as opposed toallowing the actual thought die from then on night (as most do), Tyler logged inside for you toQuirky.com.

The Net site, which usually calls itself a "social item development company," lets anyone propose aswell as influence any item idea. The Actual site's users then aid refine the actual products, and theyall possess a chance to profit.

Each week, your site's registered users vote for you to greenlight 1 pitch with regard to developmentand then still weigh in until the tangible, packaged product is ready for your marketplace.

When the product continues on sale, each individual who played a task within its development earnsthe cut in the profit proportionate for you to his or her contribution.

The web site charges a fee for users in order to propose products, in turn the particular inventorsgain usage of inventive as well as manufacturing sources which could preferably be expensive.

Inventor: Quirky Item Could Potentially Be primary Supply associated with Income

Tyler, that lives within Vancouver, Canada, decided to give it a shot. The Lady paid your $99 chargefor you to submit a product proposal, spent per week lobbying and rallying support on the websiteand, ultimately, your ex thought ended up being greenlighted.

Now, the lady said, the final item -- the actual "Beamer" -- is merely a handful of weeks far fromreaching consumers' hands along with starting to make the woman's money.

"People don't realize just how much arrange it is often to bring a product in order to market," statedTyler, founder as well as CEO associated with Innovative Air Quality, a new business that sells a newreal-time environmental monitoring system that she invented.

Between raising enough richesse and also figuring out the actual production method and more, ittook the woman's ten numerous many years of "sweat and tears" to get her first invention off yourground, she said. with Quirky, she invested just one week associated with work.

Now the lady expects income from your Beamer to become the woman's main source of income.

Every moment someone purchases the actual $38 device, she'll pocket about $5. It's already reachedabout 1,000 orders inside pre-sale, and also because associated with the buzz the product featuresgenerated within the blogosphere, she's hopeful it soon becomes a hot seller.

Quirky, that launched six several weeks ago, will end up being the brainchild involving 23-year-oldentrepreneur Ben Kaufman.

In higher school, Kaufman convinced his parents for you to remortgage their particular the locationfor you to find give him $185,000 to fund his initial invention -- retractable lanyard earbuds for thatyour iPod shuffle. that single invention led the actual advance of Mophie, a favorite manufacturerassociated with iPhone along with iPod goods sell your stock photos plus a new approach in order toinnovation.

"I took a stride back and also noticed that the business was over-crowded along with chose to be abrand," mentioned Kaufman. "We allow consumers style products."

At the particular 2007 MacWorld Expo, a giant conference for almost all issues Apple, Mophieinvited conference attendees in order to doodle ideas for that company's subsequent product andthen vote about them.

The conferees showed up using a item referred to as Bevy, an iPod case that features the keychainalong with bottle opener, which usually reportedly sold through the tens associated with 1000's allacross the world.