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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 3mo 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 3mo 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?

Hestia Hacker 3mo 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.