Results

2019

Maker info

23% of makers started their journey a year ago, and more than 20% are on this path for more than 5 years now.

Q: How long have you been a maker?

Home is the most popular place for makers to deep dive into their ideas, almost 90% of them.

Coworking spaces (24%), offices (30.8%) and coffee shops (20.2%) are the next and most popular locations on the list. A steady 6.7% chooses the silence of libraries and for someone, the sauna is the place where ideas thrive.

i Responders could mark multiple options

Nearly 64% of respondents work on Mac, almost 38% on Windows and a little over 18% on Linux.

i Responders could mark multiple options

The average maker has built 4 products during their career with almost 6% still working on their first projects. Nearly 12% of makers have built more than 10 products.

Q: How many products have you built since you are a maker?

More than 87% of makers took the step and publicly launched at least 1 product. 44% of them launched between 1 to 2 products, 33% between 3 to 5, almost 9% between 6 to 10, and nearly 3% launched more than 10 products.

Q: How many products have you launched since you are a maker?

Most makers (43.7%) launched 1 product in the past 12 months, 24.3% launched 2, 12.6% launched more than 2 products.

8 were the most products launched in the past 12 months.

Q: How many products have you launched in the past 12 months?

50% of makers spend less than 3 months building an MVP ready to launch, while 13.5% are spending more than 6 months on it.

Q: On average, how much time do you spend building a product (the MVP) before launching it?