Skarabik, Richard:
Hi guys,
I have just noticed that you are actually Czech, I read about your project on zive.cz. (I havent realized that yesterday).
Let me just give you a few tips.
With regards to Kickstarter, there are two absolutely fundamental things that determine whether or not your project will be successful and that is:
- professional and well prepared presentation
- uniqueness of the product
The problem in your case is that I see problems with both. I know it might seem like a minor thing, but sentences such as
The weather station firmware is available in follow languages: Czech, Slovak, German, and English
already show me what the quality of the English language will be...
It is really these details that sometimes determine whether or not your project will be successful or not - given the number of projects at KS it is details that give the overall impression.
Next problem is that as it was pointed out above, your device seems like nothing unique and that it in fact is just an overpriced version of something that already exists. In particular we mentioned the fact that the parts look like parts from my WH1080, which costs 60 dollars. You gave an answer where you explained that it is just the casing and that the inside is different, with much better sensors.
Well first of all, this is all very nice, but it is absolutely useless if you write this on some forum and not include this in the actual description of your product. Also, in this case I must disagree because if for example your radiation shield looks like the one on the picture - i.e. the one same as I have for my WH1080 - then it is absolutely useless even if the sensor inside is extremely accurate. I had to replace this the next day after I bought this station because the temperature was several degrees above what it should be. The casing also determines the durability of the station, if it is made from this cheap plastic then again, it is of no use to you if the sensor inside is of high quality - it might break easily during severe weather conditions.
Im not saying your product is crap - definitely not, but either you have not described and presented it well or it really offers nothing new and is even more expensive than current equivalents - similar sensors are available already, stations with direct access and data sending to internet are already available (or you can use meteobridge for 30 euros to do this), for your webpage there again are several templates available which show similar things (I happen to develop one myself - meteotemplate.com). So this again is nothing unique and companies such as Davis also have this.
It is possible that I am just missing something, unfortunately this is the impression I get from your project and the details such as language errors dont make it much better... the problem is that this is most likely the impression anyone will get reading your product info. I wish I was wrong and that this project was a success, not just because I am also Czech, but because I am in general in favor of any enthusiastic teams that want to develop something with regards to weather observation. It is a shame, but I really think you have underestimated the presentation and I know and have read about teams that spent months preparing KS presentation in order to have a chance to succeed.,