Pet chairs & plans for the future (Patreon)

The bad news: it's been so long since I posted on Patreon that I've uploaded two (!) YouTube videos since last time

The good news: I have uploaded two (!) YouTube videos since the last time I posted on Patreon. In case you haven't watched them, here's a bed version of Pimp My Ride and a video where I build a pet compatible office chair for Scraps. It has a small staircase and an extra broad seat so she can lie next to me whenever she wants to.

YouTube projects are kind of like one-night-stands: you spend a bunch of time screwing it and then you move on. But some projects really stick with you, and I did not feel ready to move on from this chair. I love it. It's cute, it's functional, Scraps loves it and it has a lot of room for improvement.

So I was stoked when a bunch of people asked if I was going to start selling them, because that means I might be able to turn it into a product and that means that my team and I will be able to spend SO MUCH TIME PERFECTING THIS THING. I can't wait to make another rev. Looking at you, lumbar support.

This chair actually became my most retweeted project of all time, which I was totally caught off guard by. Even old-school rapper Killer Mike retweeted it calling me a genius, which is a level of street cred I never thought I'd achieve. At least not by building a dog chair.

We're scheduled to launch the YETCH store in a couple of months and I think it will be the start of a new phase of my career. I finally hired a project manager for my product company (welcome Joshua!) and he's been absolutely killing it getting everything organized.

My dream is to run an innovation house creating unique solutions to every day problems. I want to film a TV show a few months every year, and the rest of the time I'm in the workshop, prototyping and sketching with a team of engineers and saying yay or nay to factory samples. I'm also wearing very cool glasses in this vision. I'm willing to compromise on that part.

Almost forgot, it's April 1st! No April Fools' from me this year. I'm just going to be in my shop, working on a menstruation machine.

XOXO
Simone

PS. I didn't win the space competition. I've been really sad about it, but also very aware that if my main complaint in life is "didn't get a free trip to space" it's seemingly a pretty good life.