Are you talking about your platinum service? Chaka offered this a long time before you, and he is the reason you even offer it. There was a whole debate here, because he offered it before you, so what are you smoking?
You host this forum cause if the industry doesn’t grow, you have no customers to sell your products to. It also doubles up as freeing you up from having to give advice to people using your parts. You can point them to the forum, and have us answer them for free, instead of taking up your time, which is worth a lot of money.
You did this to show us how much they cost to be made, not cause you want others to make them. I tried to get them made from your designs, but unless I buy in huge bulk, they would have been over $200 USD each. So they are effectively useless, since the design requires more dimensions on a cnc machine then your new design, which you haven’t released the files for.
If people don’t know how to build them, you have no one to sell your parts to. So it’s not about the goodness of your heart, it’s about keeping a steady flow of customers, and it’s a smart business move for you to inform people how to use your parts.
Same as above, the second you started making all these videos is around the same time your company started blowing up. It’s a smart business move to inform your customers of how to use your products.
Look, at the end of the day, you are brilliant business man. You know what to pick your arguments about and how to effectively argue. You do a good job of spinning things you do that are crucial to the survival of your company as favors to the community.
You are growing the industry and you are allowing others to sell their products on the forum, and that I applaud you for. It’s hard to argue that certain parts you sell like your motors are not high quality motors (whether they are over priced or not is a whole nother argument).
But your a business man. What features have you added to the vesc? Do you even know C? How deep is you electrical engineering education (do you have a degree in electrical engineering)? I just created the first 4wd board I’ve seen on this forum in a working state. I just created the first deck I’ve ever seen that was built from cnc milled 1/16th" veneers and pressed with a hollow core, and 100% Canadian maple (no CF of FG). And I invite you to participate in my thread, and you don’t care to even say anything about these innovations. Your too caught up in your business to see things from a builders eye anymore. You outsource everything you can. Do you even own a cnc milling machine? Or a jig saw or a press or anything that can be used to fabricate parts?
I’m surprised to see Jerimiah actually rip into you, but he’s been very patient, and I think he’s finally done putting up with this hoax you have going of being for the community when you care more about keeping your business going instead of being willing to lose your company because you chose to use shitty Chinese factories multiple times to make shitty quality vescs. If you haven’t significantly studied electrical engineering and can’t explain everything that’s happening at the board level, then stop hating on others that do. I am going out of my way to take more electrical physics class, and C class, just so I can understand the vesc better, and try to offer something to the community. Did you take through calc III? did you take general physics II with applied calculus? Have you taken computational physics (which I’m taking right now)? Stop acting like your smarter than everyone and be willing to admit your mistakes, and man up to them. If I can have my dream of starting a board company, and I make shitty boards, I won’t blame my customers, but accept I picked the wrong company to make them, and accept that my company might go under because of that, instead of my customers bank accounts.