Kickstarter - Thinklabs WrapUp
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Thanks for the feedback! After talking with the industrial design lead for the project he explained to me a little more thoroughly the $60K pricetag.
For rapid prototyping, we were able to locally source 3D prints for a good price. Instead of a more costly RTV mold to produce a limited amount of parts, we went with more cost-effective 3D prints to prove the design of the product. This was much more cost and time effective for us.
As explained above, the price is almost all going to be put into production expenses - tooling and setup for the molds and the minimum buy in.
Also driving up price was the fact that we chose to source our manufacturing locally from the Metro Detroit area. Sure, we could have saved maybe half the cost by going overseas, but we felt a lot better by supporting local - even if it meant increased price.