This looks great! Yay for contoured SA.
Any change of getting the ~ and | keys in the darker grey color?
Sorry, it's been requested, but I don't encourage people to do wrong things.
Perhaps these two keys could be offered in a separate "wrong" kit so those with different preferences can enjoy the keyset and help out the MOQ in the group buy?
I think that's a good idea.
The lack of symmetry would keep me from joining this GB.
I mean I can understand that you don't like it, but adding extra options doesn't hurt anybody or does it?
I wouldn't opt out for that reason alone, if I were you.
Hint: Do you remember engicoder's Rad Hard pack on PMK that complimented the Nuclear Data set? *wink wink*
I would just like to say that I am really in favour of this style of group buy
To me it has vibes of the "80-20" rule going on; offering a lower amount of kits (the 20%) will satisfy a large percentage of the potential user base (the 80%). Sure there are going to be some of our friends who are missing some keys with from the main kit, but with a friendly attitude towards people running their own mini-buys those problems can be solved.
Being relatively new to the keycap game I remember being confused by the 'main kit + child kits' standard. On PMK where people go in on buying many kits with the whole order hinging on something like the ISO kit (DSA home row mods, ErgoDox legends, etc). When a buy like that goes live, and a vital child-buy doesn't drop people want to back on all of the kits they ordered which messes with the pricing -or- they are left unsatisfied and maybe have to try and sell their caps at a later date.
I can't think of many companies that would pay give the amount of attention to their audience as the GB leaders on GH. We then have to remember that it is normally only one person who is trying to juggle all of the personal preference, custom legend ideas and all the other niche requests. On top of that they do it for the love of keyboards, not for profit. I think this format will lead to less stress/hassle for GB leaser and in this case that looks like it is going to propagate into a quick turn around, which hopefully leads to a high number or orders and a low price for the community!
I hope the people who are after a few specific keys will still want to go in on this and then set up their own mini-GB and help out others who are after the same thing. These key cap sets are for the community and it feels good that the GB leaders are open to 'decentralizing' the ownership a bit so we can get nice extras like the Rad Hard pack and Out Of The Vault in Nuclear Data Green (for example). Hack'd by Geeks ErgoDox kit anyone
Anyway. Thanks JDCarpe and the CtrlAlt bros, I'm in for my first full SA set