Hi Guys,

Thank you for your response and the loan option is also something that I am looking at, however the loan options would only give us a fraction of what we require. I appreciate that you do not feel for the handout way of things and I will not try to convince you otherwise.

We have decided to take on the crowdfunding way as this is becoming a viable option of gaining funding where we can offer something back to those who support us. In our case we have rewards as high as giving other business copies of our own software. While this may not appeal to a lot of people, the cost of developing that software for a company would be greater than the investment in our company. Therefore it becomes a great investment for both parties.

Unfortunately I do not come from a rich family and that wasn’t an option I could take, although it was considered.

I appreciate that you may not want to support my crowdfunding on your own morals or opinions, I was only hoping that word about my campaign could be spread so that hopefully it does reach the people are are interested.

Thanks again for your time.

Thank you pidjones for your more constructive response.

At the moment it feels like I’m being shot straight down for having an idea with a lack of constructive feed back. We have a desire to run a great tattoo business. I understand that there are a lot of traditional tattooists on here who personally object to the idea of the technology side.

The app idea is not the base of the funding or the main idea behind my business. The main point is the shop itself. The app is an aid to the business.

I completely 100% agree that a tattoo is only as good as the artist doing it and I completely respect that they know best. However, there are cases where people have started a tattoo and decided half way through that it isn’t how they expected it to look, or they wished it was a bit bigger or smaller. This is where the app comes in. It isn’t to replace the artist and their ideas, it is to show the customer what they will be getting, so they can decide early on if it is what they want or if they want to make changes. This can obviously be done without technology, but it takes time to trace and image at different sizes to show to the customer, the app eliminates that time, saving the artist money.

I have plans to expand to app to allow previewing the design in colour or greyscale, something that is hard to really imagine until the tattoo is finished.

I know some of you will still completely disagree with my idea, but surely you can see where the benefit is and how if used correctly, can be a great tool to improve the customer experience?

Nice to assume that I am some bum sat at home hoping for free money.

As well as wanting to open up my own tattoo studio I am also the director of my own Mobile Development company. The company that will be supporting the development of the app. I work a full 40 hour week in contract and an additional 4-6 hours every night on client work. I also provide for my wife and 3 kids.

So before you slate me for not wanting to earn money. I do earn money. I work between 60 and 80 hours a week to bring in money. However money doesn’t go far enough and definitely doesn’t bring in enough to start up my second business with my Wife.

Don’t you think I have also considered the loan option too, the best I can go for is a startup loan which isn’t enough on its own. I will be putting my own money into the continued running of the tattoo business which I earn from running my own business.

Sometime people need that bit of extra support, I’m not making people give me money.
I’m offering people something back for the help and support.

So calm down a bit and at least try and get to know who I am before you try making me out to be some low life scrote on the beg.

I complete agree, the best stuff is produced by pencil on paper. The app idea isn’t to replace that part of the process.

The only part it assists with the the tracing part and laying out on the body. If an artists draws a masterpiece by pencil, the app simply allows them to view that masterpiece on a real person without the need of tracing and copying. If the artists want to see what it would look like bigger or smaller then they can without having to redraw the artwork or scan and print it at different sizes.

This use of the app would save massive amounts of time from the artists point of view and time is money.

Obviously it won’t replace the drawing directly on to the skin or free hand work, but the app isn’t design to be a replacement. It is design to be a tool to help assist if wanted.