We just wanted to say thanks! At the start of this, someone posted our launch to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10272483) and <i>across the entire campaign</i>, it's still the number one driver of sales after Google/Facebook (screenshot: http://bit.ly/1NW557F). HN Feedback was positive and/or constructive, and caused us to open-source our firmware the next day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276091). Sometime tomorrow we should (hopefully) pass Pebble Time as the biggest 30-day crowdfunding campaign ever -- and we're not on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. I hear a lot of anti-HN sentiment lately, but I still think it's a pretty amazing community. Feel free to ask us anything about what we learned (or about Glowforge).
I notice the big 50% preorder deal has wrapped up. A mad scramble of buying as people believed they were saving $2000... The clock counting down to when the price would apparently return to the normal RRP.<p>But of course that didn't happen. When the countdown reached zero it just went from 50% off to 40%.<p>I'm curious about sales tactics. Is there a term for the imaginary inflated price used as bait? It's quite effective but is there a risk of being accused of cheap tricks? Or is the risk outweighed by the volume of sales generated by such tactics? Are buyers forgiving or will we see a flood of order cancellations.<p>The dollar ticker on the site, does it go down in response to cancelled orders? Or does it only go up?<p>I predict between 5 and 10 million worth of cancelled orders will happen before August 2016. I may or may not be inflating or exaggerating information and using cheap tricks in this comment.<p>And finally, I don't believe the hepa filter can make the fumes vanish without trace. It's a hepa filter not a black hole to another dimension.<p>I'm not the Hn community I'm a person on the internet it doesn't matter at all if people come from Facebook or YouTube or wherever. Not sure what u mean by anti Hn sentiment. I've heard a lot of anti cloud sentiment in that the cloud is needed to print. And that calling it a 3D laser printer wasn't cool. I don't have any real questions.