I don't fully understand why so few questions are being asked in this thread, it's a little worrying to me:
At $50 roughly per set and a $500k goal, based on the Kickstarter page and this thread it sounds like you're planning to purchase and set up an injection molding manufacuring space, manufacture molds, create around 9,000-10,000 sets of 150+ caps each in 12 different colorways and QC them in 5 months.
- Keeping manufacturing in the US, does that mean you're using an existing manufacturer or creating your own? I've heard you might be purchasing injection molding machines?
- If you're working with an existing manufacturer, who? How will you oversee their QC process?
- If not, wow so many questions.
- What experince running logistics on such a massive quantity of parts do you have? Running GBs for keyboards is quite different, we're literally talking multiple orders of magnitude difference in numbers of parts. It would be good to know how many people you have staffed to help with this stuff, or if a manufacturer will be doing all of the sorting, QC'ing, replacing parts, and shipping.
- Have the molds been designed and/or tested already? Past projects here that have included designing injection molds have taken a significant amount of time troubleshooting minutae related to the molds themselves, is iterating on them in your timeline?
You're undertaking quite a lot, just curious how deep you're going. Look at other people who have manufactured stuff here both with and without the help of existing manufacturers, it's not trivial. Yet there's tons of discussion about mixing and matching colorways and not much about where $500,000 is going.