Our Pivot Power ideator, Jake Zien, stopped by Quirky HQ this afternoon to meet the team, talk to some press, and tool around with some prototypes. The RISD rising senior is pumped to promote Pivot Power, and he’s super jazzed about his product’s success on the site so far.
And fun fact: his birthday is June 2, same as Quirky’s! Fate?
Pivot Power just hit threshold, in a rapid-fire FOUR DAYS. Wahoo!
The blogs are loving this product. Some choice quotes:
We think Quirky, the “social product development company” that relies on crowdsourcing for its design and engineering teams, may have their first mass-market hit on their hands… — Core77
The community-driven Quirky website has already managed to bring products like the Space Bar and DigiDude camera mount to market, and it’s now offering what may well be its most useful product to date: the Pivot Power strip. — Engadget
Ok, so this is legitimately great. Ninety percent of the stuff I write about… meh. It’s called the Pivot Power, and it’s a electrical outlet that changes shape, allowing you to snake it around corner, shoes, the giant Xbox 360 power supply, and other obstructions. Pretty amazing, this. — CrunchGear
… thanks to Quirky’s Pivot Power, you’ll no longer have to worry about turning into a rage filled maniac when you’re trying to plug in your gear, as they’ve designed a completely flexible power strip that assures that all of those horribly shaped power bricks don’t hog up all of the space … Awesome, right? Of course it is. My only question is, is why in the hell did it take until 2010 for something like this to be developed?! — Blast
Sometime my email brings me nothing but endless useless PR pitches, offers to talk with an “expert” on iPad cases or just the usual offers to help export $6 million worth of Viagra from Nigeria. I live through these for the occasional Perfect Storm, a product that makes my gadget-sense tingle, something which not only ticks, but tickles every box on my emotional gee-gaw checklist. Today is such a day. — Wired Gadget Lab
Quirky’s latest product is electric… and we don’t just mean that literally. Pivot Power is now available in the Quirky store for a pre-sale price of $23 (MSRP: $25) with a threshold of 960. In the first few minutes of sales, we sold more than 20 units — a surefire sign of good things to come! Congrats to ideator Jake Zien and all the influencers who made this product happen. Now let’s sell this thing!
Reclaim your outlets with Pivot Power, an adjustable electrical power strip that flexes around furniture and corners to conserve space!
Features:
- Flexible form that bends into circular, semi-circular, and zig-zag shapes.
- Six outlet pods, which can be adjusted so that large power bricks don’t hog space.
- Surge protection, with an easy off/reset button.
We’re gearing up to launch Pivot Power (which we all adore), but I’d like to bring to your attention a few minor changes we’ll be making to the pre-sale phase on Quirky, beginning with today’s launch.
1. There will no longer be free shipping in the U.S. associated with pre-sale. Instead we will provide as aggressive a discount as we’re able to.
2. People that buy in pre-sale will be shipped a laser-etched version of the product, with the # of the unit that they committed to. (also known as awesome)
Remember: committing in pre-sale actually makes you money on every unit that ships, anywhere in the world… in perpetuity.
Your purchase immediately makes you an influencer in the product. By way of example, someone who committed to Cloak in pre-sale earned 0.038% influence in the product. They are all set to make close to half their money back on their purchase ($15.37), just by getting in early. Pretty soon, they’ll have gotten the Cloak for free (due to reward payments equaling their purchase price), and then it won’t be long until they’re in the green.
Getting in on pre-sale is powerful. Numbers with as many decimals as 0.038 sound really small. But once the product goes into distribution, and we start talking in terms of hundreds of thousands of units, we’re talking real money. Selling just 100,000 units of Cloak would net a participant in pre-sale nearly 500 dollars. Insane!
We realize that the site needs to do a better job of telling this story to stimulate more pre-sales… and we’re working on it.
