I know WayTools doesn’t want to give out any precise estimates - and they shouldn’t since we know they could run into more problems (updates don’t have to include anything precise). But it might be nice to add in some details about plans once they are ready to ship.

We already know they will sent out emails to customers to confirm what they want. This is because some, like me, ordered dvorak or other layouts for the key caps, but those won’t be ready immediately - thus those customers may opt to go with the default qwerty rather than wait longer.

From this we know of two steps once shipping is definite:

An update someplace (here and/or the status page).

An Email to individuals.

The actual order of these could be reversed or simultanous.

Then there a third step - actually shipping.

But it would be nice to know something about the timing going to that last step. How long of a gap is the plan? Are there other steps.

Taking a wild guess, I’d suspect WayTools will want to take a little time to get responses to those emails, yet they can’t wait for everyone to respond - some may never do so. Thus I’ll guess they give it a week before they start filling orders.

During that week they should be able to package a lot of TextBlades so all they would have to finish with is attaching the actual mailing information.

Info on how fast they thing they can assemble and package the devices would be good info. I hope they won’t wait to ship until they have the whole inventory packaged! If they only have a few thousand ready that week, ship them. Some of them will probably go to customers on the forum and it will be a big plus to start hearing they are really being received - much like when the first TREG units were received.

We know little about what they can do. As I recall, they said they could produce “many thousands” of keycaps a day. No idea about other subassemblies or how many complete TextBlades can be assembled from parts in a day. Or how many packaged in a day.

Any information on this would be appreciated too.

Of course, feel free to announce that shipping starts Monday if you insist!