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if you have successful kickstarts in the past, you become more reliable for the future. one could make a couple smaller projects to prove oneself, slowly getting bigger and earning more support than would otherwise be possible.

that said, i'm not sure how more support helps one make more deskbeds. the more deskbeds to make the more deskbeds to make. unless one is manufacturing, constructing and distributing components automatically.

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when i saw this i really was hoping that the project would have some ~$50 option where you could buy the plans to assemble the desk out of 2x4s and support general development of some fancier option. (hi din0bot!)

Indeed. With some sort of open source plan, you could get improvements very quickly.

Two obvious ones that spring to mind:

- make the top legs loose so that they swing down when the bed goes up

- cover the base of the bed with something (fabric, a wooden panel or a whiteboard), so that it looks more like furniture when it's up, and not the bottom of a mattress.

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