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Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
un_related:
Since Ophidios isn't wanting to post it himself, I guess I'll do the honors :p
The board that raised my own awareness of the profile was his Let's Split, and after typing on them I was blown away at how comfy the caps felt. It felt as if every cap was the "scooped" version of DSA, but the dish didn't feel as narrow at the bottom as something like MT3. TEX ADA profile is extremely similar, but sadly their legends are not doubleshot, and the infilled laser-engraved legends are distracting.
Being able to run more exciting colors that GMK provides is extremely appealing to me, especially if the profile gains enough momentum to start supporting full-size boards.
**Edit**
I will raise an army of Plancks, each clad in the initial run(s) of this profile if that's what it takes to make this a reality!
TomahawkLabs:
Dark brown caps with white legends will forever be the best looking keycap colorway possible. Makes me want to search down a set of SA Amazing Chocolatier.
blacksimon:
While I understand that minimizing risk makes sense for new product development, investing in molds for a layout that represents under 10% of the customer base may not be the best start. If it goes poorly the total loss would be within an order of magnitude of a full base kit.
You should have analytics on hand to see the the actual target market for 40% buyers - consider a fully developed full size base kit if you're serious about the project (I think its great)
just my dos pesos
LASERman Projects:
Have you guys seen MTNU Rascals IC?
GMK_Andy:
--- Quote from: blacksimon on Sat, 25 May 2024, 12:59:44 ---While I understand that minimizing risk makes sense for new product development, investing in molds for a layout that represents under 10% of the customer base may not be the best start. If it goes poorly the total loss would be within an order of magnitude of a full base kit.
You should have analytics on hand to see the the actual target market for 40% buyers - consider a fully developed full size base kit if you're serious about the project (I think its great)
just my dos pesos
--- End quote ---
To be clear, this is why I was essentially just gauging interest from folks with 40's, smaller layouts, etc. For comprehensive sets, we are currently concentrating on Cherry and MTNU (which is the sculpted spherical). If this was something possible to run just for 40's with existing molds, that would be a different story as it would be much easier and lower risk. This is truly just gauging interest right now - are people still interested in uniform profiles? What size keyboards are you interested in it for? etc. I try to consistently watch what the community is looking for, and haven't seen a ton of uniform profile kits - certainly not like 4+ years ago when DSA was really running quite a lot (DSA Granite was the highest selling set in the community there for a spell even), so I truly am curious as well what the interest and desire for uniform profiles even is currently as well.
Thanks for taking the time to respond and give feedback :)
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