Interested
How many people do you have working on this?
If you're moving 1500 units you'll need a certain amount of security and physical infrastructure to handle all the orders. Do you have pictures of the facility you'll use to process everything without things getting stolen?
Do you have an actual address? (Not just a PO box)
What happens if you don't get enough actual orders during preorder?
How does the ROI using your FPGA compare to using an Amazon EC2 F1 instance?
Not to jump in, but Im handling the physical side. This volume of goods is cheap in the big world tbh. Also kind of funny to imply physical security is a risk and then ask for the address of the warehouse holding the cards in a public forum.
I wasn't asking where are you storing the items, but are you an actual company, with an office somewhere? I'm sure you've seen cases where people start multi million dollar ICOs and the only address they can provide is a studio apartment above someone's pizza shop.
You write "this volume of goods is cheap in the big world". What does that even mean? Any way you look at it this not a "cheap" group buy considering you're asking for several million dollars of funding on an internet forum and apparently have no other presence than that?
It's a little insulting to say that questions about security are "funny" and if that's how you treat customers on very first contact then I guess I'm not so interested. I would not want to have to deal with someone's snooty attitude if there is some kind of problem with the hardware.
Good luck to you.
ps. You might want to select a better company name. "All Mine" sounds like "you gave me your money and now it's 'All Mine'"
All Mine is senseless company, but yes my company is a real company, it has been around a long time, and we do plenty of business with many multi-billion dollar companies internationally every day. I guess you didnt look very far (such as my Acorn post), but thats fine. I understand the concerns. I apologize if an attempt at humor came off snooty. It can get frustrating the number of people on here who dont bother to read the posted information and then make accusations or imply that nefarious things are afoot. You can find my company and our public products at
www.airsquirrels.com, as well as references to our non-public and confidential hardware activity.
I still wouldnt make a post to this form saying Hey $20M worth of FPGAs are in this warehouse in Canton, Ohio at this address. Thats just unnecessary security exposure.
Perhaps Senseless can update on this board on the group buy, since it has morphed a bit. The main reason the final details havent been posted is we cant legally until next week. No one is asking for funding. I, personally, have taken a not cheap amount of my, personal money and secured a production run and large order of cards at very good prices specifically so this community wouldnt get screwed over by the markup in this industry and low volume pricing, and to support FPGA participation in this market and options other than ASICs.
Also, insurance is great - but no insurance is going to help losing al your inventory and customers orders and having to replace parts with a multi-month lead time.