<br clear="all">I know I'm being pretty hard on you guys as a devils advocate but trust me that there is only good will here.<div><br></div><div>Buried in all this discussion is one important statement that you actually said right at the beginning:</div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">"Our dream goal is to help people quit their desk jobs and pay their bills doing what they love, making things".</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">If you ping me privately by email, I can arrange a meeting with a couple of my business friends to see what cooks up. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Tom Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I'd like to introduce the community to a website I've been working on with a few friends. I would love to hear your feedback on the idea and the site, <a href="http://www.tugbits.com" target="_blank">http://www.tugbits.com</a> .</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Our dream goal is to help people quit their desk jobs and pay their bills doing what they love, making things.</div></div><div><br></div><div>TugBits.com is a digital marketplace for makers. You upload your design files, list them for sale, and collect money via PayPal when your item sells. Likewise, you can use the site to find quality, reviewed designs suitable for printing on your 3d printer, milling on your CNC, running on your Arduino, etc. Also suitable would be e-books, schematics, source code libraries and tools, etc. Only after the PayPal transaction is the buyer able to download the files. There are no physical items sold on the TugBits store, only files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our goal is to help talented makers easily profit from their hard work. We do not want to replace the existing "free/open source" model, but we want to augment it. We think that if you can get paid for your work it will compel you to go the extra step and make it that much better. Market driven innovation.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Registering and listing items is free. We charge 25% of your gross revenue and bill monthly. Depending on our costs and community feedback this number is probably going to change, but it's similar to the costs associated with putting an app on an app store or a musician listing with iTunes.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Currently you can register on the site and list items for sale, which is what I would love for any of you interested to do. We are in the final stages of getting PayPal to sign off on the site, at which point sellers will be able to collect money and items will be able to be sold.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please visit the site and let me know what you think! Even if you hate it, please reply to tell me why.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Tom Burns</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
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