Future of handmade
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The document discusses the future of community-based markets for handmade goods. It describes Etsy, an online handmade marketplace that has grown significantly in recent years. The author argues that handmade goods are valuable because they are unique, personalized creations rather than mass-produced items. A definition of handmade is proposed that allows for some automated processes as long as significant human judgment and skill are still involved. Community markets are described as conversational, inefficient by design to encourage creativity, allowing information to flow between buyers and sellers, and helping to build local economic capacity by supporting identifiable makers.
Future of handmade
- 1. Handmade: The Future of Community-Based Markets Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Etsy CTO Friday, September 28, 12
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- 3. a handmade marketplace Friday, September 28, 12
- 4. f A place for Makers to buy and sell Friday, September 28, 12
- 5. Etsy Weather Report ~6 years old August: sold 2.2 million items August: $46 million in GMS Friday, September 28, 12
- 6. Why Handmade? Friday, September 28, 12
- 7. “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it” Why Handmade? Friday, September 28, 12
- 8. What is handmade? Friday, September 28, 12
- 9. Towards a scalable definition of handmade Friday, September 28, 12
- 10. Towards a scalable definition of handmade Friday, September 28, 12
- 11. Towards a scalable definition of handmade Friday, September 28, 12
- 12. Everything is optimized for something Friday, September 28, 12
- 13. Everything is optimized for something 1. Uniformity 2. Automation 3. Low purchase price Friday, September 28, 12
- 14. Handmade is about creative inefficiency Friday, September 28, 12
- 16. Conversations! Markets are conversations, ... Friday, September 28, 12
- 17. Conversations! Markets are conversations, ... (some markets are more conversational then others) Friday, September 28, 12
- 18. Teams! Friday, September 28, 12
- 19. Community markets - made of people 1. Bi-directional information flow 2. Diverse marketplace, increased capacity 3. Grassroots economics Friday, September 28, 12
- 23. History Tags Friday, September 28, 12
- 24. Bi-directional information flow Friday, September 28, 12
- 25. Glancing, and checking into objects. Maybe Friday, September 28, 12
- 26. Grassroots economics Friday, September 28, 12
- 27. Potentially Hazardous Foods Friday, September 28, 12
- 29. Local capacity Friday, September 28, 12
- 30. Local imagination Friday, September 28, 12
- 31. a Community based markets for handmade Conversational, creatively inefficient, bi- directional, identifiable makers, fingerprints, local or with some other communication technique for high and low bandwidth communication, overlapping, capacity building Friday, September 28, 12