Alright, some of you may know me, many of you probably don't, mostly I just buy lots of keyboards, but I also am fairly active here and on discord (amnesia0287#2488, I'm on both the r\mk and topclack discords) and slack. I also have done some renders for a few people and worked with donutcat on NGE (still hoping this runs at some point
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I have been wanting to try my hand and running a gb, and so i have some (hopefully) good news, I have been talking to potatobot and he has agreed to work with me to run this set. The goal is to run the GB around mid to late September. The reason for this timing is simple, I plan to try and have enough money ready to buy at least like 50-75 sets if needed to push towards moq and i get a bonus around then. I also plan to setup a business and build a website to run the buy from and to find proxies for as many regions as I can; potatobot is currently planning to be a proxy for the philippines. I also just want to make sure we have the best kit possible.
My current plan is to setup a couple rounds of polls, the first just to establish what the general interest is and what keys/layouts/novelties/accents/modstyle are important to people, once I go through that I will put together some potential kit options and then do polls on those to lock it down. I'd like to offer as much coverage as possible, but I also very much want to keep prices reasonable to get as close to (or ideally reach) moq.
Any big changes like mod style would still be subject to approval by potatobot, but I still want to see where the interest lies. I also would very much like to try and run a hybrid hiragana alpha kit, it will NOT be the base kit tho. No bait and switch. I just really like how they look, so if there is interest I will pursue it, if not, oh well.
Anyway, I plan to try and have an update about the polls and stuff within the next week or so, but if anyone has any questions, let me know. I will still be responsive before then
. I also need to check and see if he has pantones/ral colors locked in or if we still need to do that.
I plan to setup a site for the set, but for now this just redirects to a join link to a discord server I setup with a channel to discuss black lotus:
http://gmkblacklotus.com/