June 29 2022 OSEmail
We have started weekly meetings to publish full documentation on the 1000 square foot Seed Eco-Home. So you can build it yourself for $60k in materials - you and a friend in two weeks! Really? Read more about what this really means - what about utility connections and other details? https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/SEH_2_Revenue_Model_Scenarios#DIY_Build_Model
Now the reality is - not too many people will want to do it DIY. But there will be some - and providing a streamlined option to do so is important for the world. Think of the thousands and literally millions of hours saved when thousands of people don't have to figure everything out themselves: we already put in many thousands of hours into the details.
The vast majority will want a house built for them. In short, if you don't build it yourself, we can build it ready to move in - including land - like any house you would find on the market - initially for $190k including land in the USA. We expect this cost to go down to about $107k - a turnkey, full pruduction build - as soon as we optimize workflows and materials such as Compressed Earth Block or 3D printed lumber. Study the cost breakdown in our spreadsheet for the reality check - does this look reasonable, and is it valuable?
In short, the initial value proposition is 36x faster for the builder, 2-3x cheaper for the consumer looking for a new home on the market, and even better for the DIY person. The goal is to solve housing by unleashed collaboration.
In a braoder sense, year is a big one for OSE as we are nearing traction on a revenue model that can deliver on the promise of creating the open source economy. Release of the Seed Eco-Home - in the form of a 24-person swarm build of a 1000 square foot, code-compliant home in 5 days - would be big news for the world. Average homes in the USA take 36x longer to build. The promise of radical efficiency of open source design and collaboration is at stake here. Once successful, there will be a potential cascade of evolution in the business world, as people recognize that open, collaborative, distributive enterprise is possible for economic traction. Nobody believes this today, or at least nobody is doing it. To get there, we document the Seed Eco-Home, and prove the business model with 4 builds for real customers in October and November 2022. We plan on building a minimum of 25 in 2023, and if all goes really well - hundreds. Not ourselves, but as a distributed, open source franchise where people collaborate on improvememnt, and all OSE resources go to further evolution and training builders and entrepreneurs. The Seed Eco-Home Rosebud model: it is stick frame, and we're developing the Compressed Earth Block version next. Join us.
Join our weekly meeting to collaborate on documentation for the Seed Eco-Home - see meeting link and sign up on our Collaboration Team Form - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home_Collaboration_Team. Also, July 11-15 we are doing interior finishing on Seed Eco-Home 2 in the Kansas City area at our facility: plumbing, electrical, cabinets, kitchen, bathroom, finish floor, and trim. This is also open by invitation, so email me if you are interested.
Also - we just had to restore our email list from a backup - and there may be some hiccups. Pass this on to your friends or you can unsubscribe if you were put on the wrong list.
Thanks, Marcin
Try 2
We have started weekly meetings to publish full documentation on the 1000 square foot Seed Eco-Home. So you can build it yourself for $60k in materials - you and a friend in two weeks! Really? Read more about what this really means - what about utility connections and other details? https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/SEH_2_Revenue_Model_Scenarios#DIY_Build_Model
Now the reality is - not too many people will want to do it DIY. But there will be some - and providing a streamlined option to do so is important for the world. Think of the thousands and literally millions of hours saved when thousands of people don't have to figure everything out themselves: we already put in many thousands of hours into the details.
The vast majority will want a house built for them. In short, if you don't build it yourself, we can build it ready to move in - including land - like any house you would find on the market - initially for $190k including land in the USA. We expect this cost to go down to about $107k - a turnkey, full pruduction build - as soon as we optimize workflows and materials such as Compressed Earth Block or 3D printed lumber. Study the cost breakdown in our spreadsheet for the reality check - does this look reasonable, and is it valuable?
In short, the initial value proposition is 36x faster for the builder, 2-3x cheaper for the consumer looking for a new home on the market, and even better for the DIY person. The goal is to solve housing by unleashed collaboration.
In a braoder sense, year is a big one for OSE as we are nearing traction on a revenue model that can deliver on the promise of creating the open source economy. Release of the Seed Eco-Home - in the form of a 24-person swarm build of a 1000 square foot, code-compliant home in 5 days - would be big news for the world. Average homes in the USA take 36x longer to build. The promise of radical efficiency of open source design and collaboration is at stake here. Once successful, there will be a potential cascade of evolution in the business world, as people recognize that open, collaborative, distributive enterprise is possible for economic traction. Nobody believes this today, or at least nobody is doing it. To get there, we document the Seed Eco-Home, and prove the business model with 4 builds for real customers in October and November 2022. We plan on building a minimum of 25 in 2023, and if all goes really well - hundreds. Not ourselves, but as a distributed, open source franchise where people collaborate on improvememnt, and all OSE resources go to further evolution and training builders and entrepreneurs. The Seed Eco-Home Rosebud model: it is stick frame, and we're developing the Compressed Earth Block version next. Join us.
Join our weekly meeting to collaborate on documentation for the Seed Eco-Home - see meeting link and sign up on our Collaboration Team Form -
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home_Collaboration_Team. Also, July 11-15 we are doing interior finishing on Seed Eco-Home 2 in the Kansas City area at our facility: plumbing, electrical, cabinets, kitchen, bathroom, finish floor, and trim. This is also open by invitation, so email me if you are interested.
Also - we just had to restore our email list from a backup - and there may be some hiccups. Pass this on to your friends or you can unsubscribe if you were put on the wrong list.
Thanks, Marcin
Try 3
We have started weekly meetings to publish full documentation on the 1000 square foot Seed Eco-Home. So you can build it yourself for $60k in materials - you and a friend in two weeks! Really? Read more about what this really means - what about utility connections and other details? https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/SEH_2_Revenue_Model_Scenarios#DIY_Build_Model
Now the reality is - not too many people will want to do it DIY. But there will be some - and providing a streamlined option to do so is important for the world. Think of the thousands and literally millions of hours saved when thousands of people don't have to figure everything out themselves: we already put in many thousands of hours into the details.
The vast majority will want a house built for them. In short, if you don't build it yourself, we can build it ready to move in - including land - like any house you would find on the market - initially for $190 thousand including land in the USA. We expect this cost to go down to about $107 thousand - a turnkey, full pruduction build - as soon as we optimize workflows and materials such as Compressed Earth Block or 3D printed lumber. Study the cost breakdown in our spreadsheet for the reality check - does this look reasonable, and is it valuable?
In short, the initial value proposition is 36x faster for the builder, 2-3x cheaper for the consumer looking for a new home on the market, and even better for the DIY person. The goal is to solve housing by unleashed collaboration.
In a broader sense, year is a big one for OSE as we are nearing traction on a revenue model that can deliver on the promise of creating the open source economy. Release of the Seed Eco-Home - in the form of a 24-person swarm build of a 1000 square foot, code-compliant home in 5 days - would be big news for the world. Average homes in the USA take 36x longer to build. The promise of radical efficiency of open source design and collaboration is at stake here. Once successful, there will be a potential cascade of evolution in the business world, as people recognize that open, collaborative, distributive enterprise is possible for economic traction. Nobody believes this today, or at least nobody is doing it. To get there, we document the Seed Eco-Home, and prove the business model with 4 builds for real customers in October and November 2022. We plan on building a minimum of 25 in 2023, and if all goes really well - hundreds. Not ourselves, but as a distributed, open source franchise where people collaborate on improvememnt, and all OSE resources go to further evolution and training builders and entrepreneurs. The Seed Eco-Home Rosebud model: it is stick frame, and we're developing the Compressed Earth Block version next. Join us.
Join our weekly meeting to collaborate on documentation for the Seed Eco-Home - see meeting link and sign up on our Collaboration Team Form -
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home_Collaboration_Team. Also, July 11-15 we are doing interior finishing on Seed Eco-Home 2 in the Kansas City area at our facility: plumbing, electrical, cabinets, kitchen, bathroom, finish floor, and trim. This is also open by invitation, so email me if you are interested.
Also - we just had to restore our email list from a backup - and there may be some hiccups. Pass this on to your friends or you can unsubscribe if you were put on the wrong list.
Thanks, Marcin
