For centuries, becoming an “inventor” has been a hard gig to crack. Complexities relating to financing, engineering, distribution, and legalities have stood in the way of brilliant people executing on their great ideas.
Since launching in 2009, Quirky has rapidly changed the way the world thinks about product development.
Open innovation brings new business models. This is about social product development. Quirky is an open crowdsourcing platform for real inventors.
Quirky focuses on physical consumer products:
Ideas must be technically feasible and products can be made with current technology. There are thousands of ideas submitted to Quirky every week.