My mom loves the concept of Quirky, so I always find one or two products from Quirky in my stocking. I have never found any of them remotely useful.
Perhaps that speaks to my mom's taste in gifts. But I suspect that the real problem is that Quirky offered expensive products for solving trivial problems. None of the items I received solved any pressing needs in my life.
For something like Quirky to succeed, it probably needs to use crowd-sourcing to identify a few A+ ideas for products and then manufacture them at a scale sufficient to make prices competitive. Instead, it seemed to offer a ton of different cute, kinda useful items.
That doesn't seem like a business model destined to take over the world.
Perhaps that speaks to my mom's taste in gifts. But I suspect that the real problem is that Quirky offered expensive products for solving trivial problems. None of the items I received solved any pressing needs in my life.
For something like Quirky to succeed, it probably needs to use crowd-sourcing to identify a few A+ ideas for products and then manufacture them at a scale sufficient to make prices competitive. Instead, it seemed to offer a ton of different cute, kinda useful items.
That doesn't seem like a business model destined to take over the world.