Comment by iamleppert
3 years ago
The wood bezel is kind of ugly & cheap looking. The audience for this is likely to be tech people and users who want to show off their calendar or manage their time with calendar invites. I think this could do well with a more contemporary frame. You could market it to people as a solution to forgetting meetings; the price would have to be low enough (sub $100) to trigger people’s impulse buying. The lower the price the more likely you will be to get a sale.
Do a test on Facebook with different price points and see which one produces better conversions: you don’t need to actually have the product available to buy yet. This product is mostly going to live or die based on the marketing & pricing.
There’s no accounting for taste. I’d prefer a wood frame to some kind of LED emissive plastic or metal
Except it’s not particularly nice word and the proportions are all off.
Fair.
A delicate chrome bezel might work though.
One of the appeals of the e-paper though is the "natural" look of it — as though it is paper. The wood frame is in keeping with that.
I like the wood, but I'm not fond of the choice.
Yea, I'll try to find something with less texture for sure.
Have you been to a shop that does picture framing?
I wonder if you are trying to re-invent (or at least DIY) a picture frame -- you can get a high quality custom-sized picture frame made at a very reasonable price. The mitres will be perfect :)
(I haven't seen the reverse of your product, so there may be a constraint I'm not aware of.)
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Why not just make it in a way that allows people to more easily BYOF?
I actually like the wood as material per se, but I still want to improve a bit on the processing.
I'd love to lower the price, too. I don't know yet if it's possible.
Besides the bezel being wide compared to the actual screen, there is nothing else wrong with it, in my opinion.
I think the price point is about right for those tech bro’s that want to buy this to show off. I don’t think you should try to compete with consumer grade stuff.