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Cool, I'm curious about the manufacturing part. Would you mind sharing that process? How did you find a manufacturer willing to build your product? Did you neg

Cool, I'm curious about the manufacturing part. Would you mind sharing that process? How did you find a manufacturer willing to build your product? Did you negotiate the price per unit? Do they require a minimum purchase amount (ie, like 1000 units)? If you do not have enough backers, are you planning on using your own money to buy up to the minimum purchase number, or cancel the entire project? How do you plan on validating the build quality before settling on a specific manufacturer to build your product?

testmasterflex 6y ago
Thanks! Sure. Circuit boards are easy. Many suppliers. The tricky part is the casing. Currently we are using Toolless that mill the units with CNC. That’s pricy per unit but we can order lower number of units. If we reach enough funding we go for injection moulding. This is the way to go. Start small and expensive, worry about cutting costs and scaling later. We have already built a final prototype that looks and works like final product together with our plastics manufacturer. Circuit boards from Pcbway currently but larger order will come from other company most likely. Again there are many. And same with injection moulding; lots of companies do it. I think we will reach crowdfunding goals but if not we may get external funding.