I got these guys to make a post on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCeaVc7yPCn/
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Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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I mean, I did tell them, and they posted after I told them. They said that you were gonna build in it, and I followed you I think.
If you have one available, I'm really curious if the Cryorig H7 will fit with out the side bracket.
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Haha, there's both a H5 Universal and H5 Ultimate at my work but we quit stocking the H7 because the mounting system is not nearly as nice. It's only $35 and it looks like the only 120mm tower cooler that could fit so I'll pick one up.
Yeah, I've heart that it's terrible. But I think this will be a good cooler if it fits.
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Just telling them to google for "Cerberus Kickstarter" is enough by now, it's the second result.
Because SFFn is a completely different entity to Kimera. To avoid conflicts of interest (due to both Kimera staff working on SFFn), any Kimera product will not be featured or reviewed on the site. This is also why @Aibophobia and @PlayfulPhoenix will not review cases - too high a risk of bias.
Please note that I have no association with Kimera (and neither does TekEverything)- this is why Jay and I can review cases
Please note that I have no association with Kimera (and neither does TekEverything)- this is why Jay and I can review cases
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Because SFFn is a completely different entity to Kimera. To avoid conflicts of interest (due to both Kimera staff working on SFFn), any Kimera product will not be featured or reviewed on the site. This is also why @Aibophobia and @PlayfulPhoenix will not review cases - too high a risk of bias.
Please note that I have no association with Kimera (and neither does TekEverything)- this is why Jay and I can review cases
We've (Aiboh and I) deliberately kept our work on SFFn/SFF Forum, and Kimera Industries, separate in this manner. Although we care about Cerberus and KI and being able to design cool things, we care even more about the community we've been building here, and for us to take advantage of our capabilities by shoving one project into another (ostensibly for personal gain) would be objectively and morally wrong. So we aren't going to do it.
We sent out press releases and saw a fair amount of coverage when Cerberus was announced. We also sent our press releases when the crowdfunding campaign landed, but so far I've only seen coverage of that internationally:
Tom's Hardware
ComputerBase
(If any of you all discover other stories, please do let us know of them!)
We kinda pre-announced the crowdfunding campaign in the reveal, so it isn't that surprising that we haven't seen as much reporting on the second press release. That said, all the places we communicated with that have reported on us have been really great, so we're far from upset or anything. You mention Sebastian Peak of PCPer, and he (and all the folks there) were really enthusiastic and receptive, and engaged with us more than most.
(We've also got one or two things lined up that I think will get us some attention, and will be neat for you all to see
For now we're keeping that to ourselves, though )
For your guys' sake, I hope so. Unfortunately, and I hate to say this, at this point the campaign doesn't look like it has the momentum it needs to reach its goal. Most successful crowdfunding campaigns tend to see the bulk of the contributions in the first week or so. That was certainly true for the two campaigns we ran - here's what our stats looked like. For the production campaign, we were at 50% of our total funding within the first 48 hours, and fully 87% within the first 7 days. The last two weeks brought in very little. Unless you can find some large reserve of untapped customers that this case is going to appeal to (and who can afford it), it will end up well short of where it needs to be, I'm afraid
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For your guys' sake, I hope so. Unfortunately, and I hate to say this, at this point the campaign doesn't look like it has the momentum it needs to reach its goal. Most successful crowdfunding campaigns tend to see the bulk of the contributions in the first week or so. That was certainly true for the two campaigns we ran - here's what our stats looked like. For the production campaign, we were at 50% of our total funding within the first 48 hours, and fully 87% within the first 7 days. The last two weeks brought in very little. Unless you can find some large reserve of untapped customers that this case is going to appeal to (and who can afford it), it will end up well short of where it needs to be, I'm afraid
We were hoping to have a much better start to the campaign, for sure. Especially when people are anticipating the campaign, pledges tend to be heavy at the start, less so at the end, and pretty slow in between.
The rate of backers if you exclude the first twelve hours (which stands out with a spike) isn't bad, but if you extrapolate it, it comes in a bit under our goal.
Anyways, all that said, this is counterbalanced a bit by some polling we've done on our newsletter where we solicited input from followers, and prefaced the poll by indicating that we only wanted responses from interested/serious buyers. Of course, that will always be an inflated metric, but even when accounting for that it indicated that we were pretty darn close to where we needed to be.
TLDR: We'll see what happens! We have reasons to be optimistic, and early signs that aren't so great
What those add up to, we'll discover at the end of the month.
I've explained the situation, in more detail, regarding the lack of coverage on SFFn here: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/sffn-minutiae-and-kimera-industries.516/
I'm sure no matter what the outcome of the crowd funding campaign this won't be the last we see of the Cerberus. It's so much better than all the other existing cases on the market.
Even if its a licensed manufacturer, hell sliger sell a range of cases on their site already non of which can be selling at a huge volume.
Even if its a licensed manufacturer, hell sliger sell a range of cases on their site already non of which can be selling at a huge volume.
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