Really glad to see this reach MOQ. Since it feels like so many GMK group buys have been struggling to get made, it feels like a relief for Phantom to get past this hurdle.
If the mechanical keyboard community cooperated to make and maintain a single website informing of all active Interest Checks and Group Buys, it would improve visibility and consequently the chances of more Group Buys reaching MOQ. Currently, one has to do a lot of searching to find everything - and how do you know when you have truly found
everything? Massdrop's group buys do so well because of their visibility. The community-maintained website could be as simple as just sharing a few images and a complete list of all relevant links for each active IC and GB (originator's home page, all threads in all discussion groups, each vendors' website). Once something closes it would be removed from the site, as anyone interested will be following already and know where to find updates.
There is a great shared spreadsheet maintained by xondat for Geekhack GB's
here. - maybe expanding this to include other sites would be a good start? The upcoming KeyCon would be a great place to start community discussion of this.
For all I know, what I am talking about already exists. But I haven't stumbled across it, so its visibility could use some improvement.