Meet Vestaboard Note - an inviting, playful and versatile messaging display.
Vestaboard Note is inspired by the timeless design of our flagship messaging display and builds on the incredible love for Vestaboard from over 15,000 customers locations as varied as Jennifer Garner's kitchen to a Netflix top-rated movie set, and the legendary Rough Trade Records flagship store in Manhattan.
The Note is an inviting, playful and versatile messaging display that delivers a delightful, fluttering sound with over 2,800 magical spinning flaps. Now featuring a wonderful ❤️ icon as one of its 64 standard characters, it brings the unique Vestaboard experience into even more spaces. The Note can make any wall more beautiful, or land itself comfortably on a counter or bookshelf. Notes can even be combined to create a seamless, stackable and customizable display, with no limits as to scale.
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We created the concept of Vestaboard Note in less than 4 weeks.
The backstory
The product was catalyzed by the new economic realities hoisted on us by the events of April 2nd. It's a product we never intended to make... but we are so glad we did.
We had spent over a year working on a new version of a Vestaboard product we called "Smart Bits" – a completely new way to experience Vestaboard’s patented character units. It was bold and complex, powered by a sleek system to pass energy and designed to scale the business. "Smart Bits" pushed the limits of design, engineering, and manufacturing.
The end of March marked Vestaboard's most successful first quarter, with over $3.3 million in sales. And then came April 2nd (Liberation Day)- our company along with many others faced a new reality: rapidly rising tariffs on products made in Asia and new restrictions on critical supplies coming out of China. In a matter of weeks, the financial and operational assumptions behind the project collapsed. An already risky project was suddenly married to massive market uncertainty, and I knew we needed to eliminate every possible risk within our control as fast as possible.
That could have been the end of the story, but it wasn’t. Instead of retreating, we gathered the team and asked what could we build that captures the magic of Vestaboard, and fit better with our existing manufacturing approach for the Flagship, and the Vestaboard Note was born.
Our team has only gotten more excited with the development of the first cosmetic prototype (soon to be on its way to a lucky customer who shares our announcement today). In the face of the uncertainty, we genuinely rallied to create something great. The situation led to clarity, then creativity, and what appears to be a very natural evolution of our business.
Vestaboard Note wasn’t the product we planned to make, but we are incredibly proud to introduce it to the world today.
