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Product development is hard?

Have you ever watched the movie Joy? If you haven't and you're an aspiring entrepreneur, go watch it, it's great! The movie shows how tough it is to break into the world of design and manufacturing – you need lots of cash and patrons. The process is:

  • Expensive: lots of cash is needed to produce a mould and warehouse large quantities of parts
  • Slow: time to design the product for mould production is painfully long
  • Unforgiving: once the design is locked in and the mould produced, performing large scale market tests and iterating on the design as a result of user feedback means a lot of new investment
  • Unsustainable: injection moulding required vast energy systems for mass manufacture, provided by nuclear, natural gas or coal power plants

Failure to quickly sell a product with such considerable upfront costs prevents a lot of starter entrepreneurs with great ideas from growing their businesses. Some even struggle to get the business off the ground in the first place.

 

Products are Easy!

We at Ecotonos want to make sure great ideas make it to the market and aspiring entrepreneurs go on to build successful businesses. We’ve perfected our very own accelerated product development process over the years of manufacturing our in-house designed products and collaborating with a few select clients. For the first time we are opening our House of Industry services to anyone, who is interested in bringing their idea to market. Here’s how it works:

  1. Design your product or have us design it for you
  2. We manufacture prototypes and supply on demand digital manufacturing for you and your customers
  3. Iterate based on user feedback, create variants and/or scale up to mass manufacture as your product matures

 

Here's how it works

Our design service fees are estimated based on our initial discussions of your project's needs. Your design may fall into one of three tiers, which will change the pricing and estimated time of completion.

 

Tier 1

Tier 1 services generally range in price from $25 to $300 with an average of $182 for the design (CAD development and basic prototype testing). When produced with our in-house digital manufacturing equipment, products of this complexity have ranged from $1.25 to $17.88 wholesale cost without post-processing or extra components and assembly. These numbers are based on the following examples and prices will vary depending on your requirements and part size.

Tier 2

Tier 2 services generally range from $600 to $2,400 with an average of $1,166 for the design (CAD development and basic prototype testing). When produced with our in house digital manufacturing equipment, products of this complexity have ranged from $0.53 to $19.62 wholesale cost without post-processing or extra components and assembly. These numbers are based on the following examples and prices will vary depending on your requirements and part size.

Tier 3

Tier 3 services generally range in price from $4,200 to $9,000 with an average of $6,525 for the design (CAD development and basic prototype testing). When produced with our in house digital manufacturing equipment, products of this complexity have ranged from $2.46 to $44.20 wholesale cost without post-processing or extra components and assembly. These numbers are based on the following examples and prices will vary depending on your requirements and part size.

  • Firefly
  • Drip irrigation emitter
  • Weight scale
  • Duck call

 

Ready to give your idea a chance? Shoot us a message here or reach out at hello[at]ecotonos.com and we'll be happy to help!