Kirsty Kearney-Greig aka KKG's profile on Product Hunt

Kirsty Kearney-Greig aka KKG

Senior Product Manager @ ProdPad

#603629@kagreigprodpad.com

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Joined on July 11th, 2016

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Hey all 👋🏻 Kirsty here, Senior PM at ProdPad, super happy to be sharing this with you all today. I thought it might be useful to share how our Product Collaboration in Slack app works for me eg how I use it in my day to day. Staying ontop of all the feedback and ideas coming at me from both the team and our community is super important and this is where our Slack app is key for me. Any conversation can lead to a great idea 💡 or key piece of feedback or insight 👂🏼 being shared and with the Slack app it’s so easy for me to grab and sync into PP. It makes collaboration with the wider team super easy and it’s great to be able to go back to someone and say that convo we had in Slack it’s captured here and this is what’s being done about it 👀 If you’d like to know more just comment below, happy to help ✌

on ProdPad for Slack

9mo ago

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Hey @jacqvon! Thanks for asking a question 🙂 We wanted to create a better, more efficient and more sustainable way to make physical stuff - starting with furniture. Rather than mass producing and shipping heavy designs around the world, we send a digital file (like a .dxf or .dwg) to a workshop in our network near you - meaning the design you want can be made on-demand, locally, sustainably and quicker than your average! It’s kinda like sending a PDF to your local print shop 🖨 It all started when our founders Nick and Joni (both architects), were asked to design a large team desk for Mint Digital a company based here in London. Their brief was to design a number of bespoke workbenches that were affordable but also could be made more quickly than ordering from a major supplier. Joni and Nick found that they could make desks from sustainably-grown forests, and build them locally in less than 3 weeks. Because the tables were designed to be made with digital fabrication tools they were able to make them less than 3 miles away from Mint Digital’s central London offices with a local maker. The same company then opened their New York office and wanted to kit it out with the same furniture. Because Nick and Joni had the digital file already, they realised they didn’t have to make the pieces here then ship it across to NY, they could simply find a local maker near the New York office, send them the file, and cut out the need for heavy shipping and time lags. By turning hardware into software it was possible to ship only the digital file across the Atlantic – and the core idea behind Opendesk was born. We now make this possible for not just Mint Digital, but customers all over the world through our online marketplace. We offer a collection of designs, designed by a global design community and connect customers who want those designs to a network of makers to have their furniture made for them on demand. For us this is just the beginning. Although we currently have a marketplace that allows you to buy digitally fabricated plywood furniture underneath the hood we are building the infrastructure and platform that allows you take any product and any fabrication method and marry the two together alongside materials and processes for manufacture. Eventually the idea will be to separate what we see as the underlying platform that powers the current online marketplace and allow anyone to plug into it. Whether that be our existing maker network who want to set up their own channels to generate further sales or a company who already has their own channel and idea but needs the platform and infrastructure to power it. Essentially we’re trying to build a global platform for local making and while that current making is plywood desks we imagine in the future it could be anything. Our mission is to build the world’s most equitable & distributed supply chain.

on Opendesk

3yr ago

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