i will give major props because these at least are not inspired by anime. thank u very much for doing this
At least most of the people being inspired by anime learned their lesson and have started doing research first. This IC deserves zero props considering it's a clear placeholder with no discernable effort put into it. There's a reason why if you go somewhere like KCDesign discord they warn you to do your homework before posting on GH.
I have in fact done my homework. I already have a vendor for running the group buy and fulfilling orders, I've been in talks with multiple manufacturers, etc. I know these switches aren't super custom or anything crazy but I don't have the money right now to design anything fully custom. I'm hoping that I'll be able to make enough money from this to put into making some completely custom stuff in the future. I've actually been working on designing a new keycap profile/set for over 6 months, but since I don't have the money to do that right now so I decided to put that on pause and make these switches.
I get that they are basically just recolors, but Gateron Inks are great switches and I'm planning to sell them at or below the going price.
If you are trying to do Gateron recolors, you're not going to be able to get them done anywhere but Gateron, so I'm not entirely sure what manufacturers you could be referencing unless this is "like" a Gateron Ink rather than a recolor. (Sorry, that parts not clear).
As well, you said above you were trying to keep margins super thin and at the same time now are considering profiting off of it enough to make more stuff in the future? I'm just confused as to which one you are doing here.
Finally, you can pretty much buy wholesale Gateron Inks either from Gateron or at about as thin of margins as you can possibly go via places like Aliexpress/Taobao. Again, I may be wrong, but I don't think you can simultaneously run thin margins, make profit enough to sink into future projects,
and offer at or below "the going price".
While you very well may have done the homework as you've stated, and I'm not necessarily doubting that you could have, the IC as well as some of the things you've said in previous responses don't really show it off all that well.