As the Maker revolution continues, with the potential to permeate mainstream culture (my bet is that it will!), there are new opportunities for businesses to ride the wave. It didn’t start out with the Maker movement in mind, but Tindie is one startup that will benefit from the explosion of ‘prosumerism.’
In some ways, Tindie is a bit like Etsy for gadgets, an online marketplace for DIYers to sell their hardware. It began in 2012 as a place for doing away with left over bits from projects, but, as orders reached 1,000 in its first seven months and 10,000 after seven months more, the site started to grow into an all around Maker mall.…
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