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Next level Patreon! 💪 (Patreon)

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2019-08-30 12:30:43
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2026-06
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We made a few changes to our Patreon page to get ready for the future...

1 Name change
First we changed “Dave Hakkens” to “Dave Hakkens & Friends”. This is because the money that you are generously donating every month is benefiting a lot of people and not just Dave. This money is making many projects like Precious Plastic, One Army and Project Kamp possible and we cannot thank you all enough!


2 Changed rewards 🎉
We have made some changes to the rewards you receive at each tier. 


3 Discord!
we have opened up a Discord server! This is a place where everyone can talk about, help with and show off anything to do with Precious Plastic. By being a member of the Patreon you are entitled to perks within our Discord server. From the $2 tier you will receive a special badge next to your name! From the $25 tier you will then also have access to an exclusive Patreon channel on the Discord. This will be a place for the superfans to discuss their ideas along with team members. Team members hang out on the discord all the time and are always happy to help out with any questions you may have!


Your support ever since we have started the Patreon has been massive for to the development of the many projects we have running at the moment. I cannot thank you enough for donating whatever you are able to, it means the world, to all of us. 

Dave & Friends :)

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Joseph A Klatt

"Rule no. 1 in entrepreneurship: STAY IN BUSINESS." - totally agree. Trying to find a sustainable business model is a little overdue in my opinion ;) hmm hm @Dave . We're definitely getting there though and have some early plans for more business like activities for next year (helping organizations set up workspaces around the world, participating in events, scaling up the Bazar). Building the machines is an interesting one. On one hand, I do think this would be very helpful - we would gain some income, and the community would have a trusted provider of the machines. We've had actually a few troubles with independent Precious Plastic machine builders on the Bazar. However, Dave's idea has always been that he would rather have the people build the machines themselves or have independent machine builders specialize in building them locally so that they aren't being shipped from the Netherlands to all over. This way would also encourage more business development for those independent machine builders because Precious Plastic official wouldn't be taking any business away from them. We have had some strong machine builders pop up around the world, maybe or maybe not because of this. However, with the new version 4 machines, I do wonder if its better if we provide at least the hard to get components of the new machines on the Bazar. This will give Precious Plastic some income, while making sure that machine builders around the world have access to those harder to get parts. I totally agree that Precious Plastic should be more business oriented, or at least focused on maintaining a sustainable organization. We're definitely trying and have some great stuff coming that we're excited about!

Joseph A Klatt

Do either of you guys have ideas for what we could provide on the higher level tiers of Patreon? What would you like to get?

Precious - Plastic - Org
>>26379378

Can you imagine where we would have been by now if Dave would have keep going with a little team; a well equipped lab (plasma, laser, large CNC mill as the deckel-fp, proper lathe),... ? The resulting machines would have definitely a chance on the public market as amazon, ebay, etc ... Best part of that is that this very little team could have stable and honest income by now and have a decent life quality :-) Not just that, there would have been also enough money to set out bounties and donations. Possible, PP would have been also fully integrated in global & related projects :-)

Precious - Plastic - Org
>>26379424

A monthly live broadcast or podcast (Q&A and/or workshops), going through certain machines, processes, materials - in the good old Mr Hakkens style. Heck there is soo much material and to speak about, you could do this on a weekly base and speak for instance about a lathe the whole day. There will be a concrete outcome; for the PP portfolio and for the users. That would attract a hell of smaller tiers and eventually you can pick up knowledge and skills from experts who are now rather lost with the current structures in place. We planned a monthly podcast btw. Here is your first trailer jingle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by0fsLL4wSU.