What is the case made of, and (if you can share), what makes it unique from the 10,000 other cases out there? Depending on the material, manufacturing may cons

What is the case made of, and (if you can share), what makes it unique from the 10,000 other cases out there? Depending on the material, manufacturing may consist of injection molding, milling, vacuum-form, or some combination of 1 or more of those. You'll likely need a CAD engineer to do a proper drawing for it, depending on the primary molding method. It's been about 4 years since I last did something like this, but the general process was something like: 1) Design and model rough prototype. This was my own time/effort and about $500 in materials (for a custom server bezel). 2) Take model to a local machinist/engineer to have CAD work done and produce initial prototypes on a Haas mill - $5000 3) Take CAD drawings and such to local low-volume production house to have initial small run of units made, at a cost of ~$250/ea. 4) (I never actually got to this stage in this project). After stage 3, you'd generally do a field test looking for whatever properties you did or did not expect from the case. Does it stay on, does it wear/damage the phone, does it survive a drop, does it affect the signal, etc. From here you'd likely have CAD work done for a mold ($5,000 - $10,000, IME) and have an actual mold made ($10,000- $100,000, IME) Depending on complexity, number of parts, tolerance, etc., this can vary widely. Once all this is done, it's usually $1-$3/unit in volume (10,000 +), but again all this varies widely on a number of factors. Very generally speaking, you're talking about probably a $30K minimum investment to get your first 1,000 or so unit. Then you have to sell or distribute them.