Ken Fiskorne
CREATOR
Invested in BackerKit’s future during our Wefunder campaign
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Group-Collab Leader
6 days ago
Project Update: Smoke tests out! What that means, and when to expect surveys
Good evening, gang!
CHALLENGE COIN CRITTERS' surveys just passed BackerKit review. Veterans know what that means: it's smoke test time!
Smoke tests mean a lucky 5% of each tier's backers just got their surveys early. Check your email, see if you got one, and go fill it out like normal. What's the catch? Well, you've gotta make sure they work. Make sure...
CHALLENGE COIN CRITTERS' surveys just passed BackerKit review. Veterans know what that means: it's smoke test time!
Smoke tests mean a lucky 5% of each tier's backers just got their surveys early. Check your email, see if you got one, and go fill it out like normal. What's the catch? Well, you've gotta make sure they work. Make sure...
- ...all of your freebies (early bird, returning backer, cross-collab, Pin Safari) are where they should be.
- ...all of the pins, stickers, and pin backs you pledged for are in your cart.
- ...all of the critters you expect to be available are showing up as options for you.
- ...there's no pins missing from your three, five, or ten pin tiers, and so on.
If you notice something's up here, or you notice any other issues, contact me ASAP. Better safe than sorry - worst case scenario, it's intentional, or someone else got it already! Shoot me an email at [email protected]. I'll toss campaign credit at anyone who finds something major.
One major thing you're going to notice is we aren't charging shipping.
There's only so many jokes I can make about the current state of American politics and overseas trade: things are fucked up right now. Sometimes they get more fucked, sometimes they get less fucked. We're going to be waiting a few months for pins to be produced and shipped over here, and we're gonna gamble that things might be better in a bit. There's no benefit to either you, or me, taking money right now.
You will be charged for shipping costs this Spring, when pins arrive - not now! This isn't a survey defect, and we hope it's the first and last time we have to do this for a HUSTLE project.
Smoke test backers have a couple days to get their surveys set. If we don't have any major hiccups. everyone else'll get theirs later this week. We're currently a little early, but on track with timeline estimates.
Other than that, it's onto vectors and customs. There's a whopping 81 total designs to get production-ready - while everything is pretty clean, art-wise, it's time to assign pantones. Some pins already have perfect matches in my GAP set. Others need a fully new palette!
I do want to remind everyone: the next week or two is gonna be weird for work. I have some emergency repairs being done on my apartment, and I have to evacuate all of my pets and most of my personal living stuff into half the space. I'm waiting on an exact timeline for all this, but my office might be full of birds and an upright mattress.
BackerKit desktop might be inaccessible. Store stock and workspaces are being covered for biosecurity, and fulfillment will not be possible whatsoever. I can respond to emails but actual work might be on the back burner for the next 1-2 weeks.
I'll flex the new millenial gray vinyl floor when it's done, but it's gonna throw a wrench in some campaign work. I promise, I'll put the shop on a nice sale to apologize later.
Otherwise, let's check in when smoke tests are clear and surveys are out. Take it easy this week!
You will be charged for shipping costs this Spring, when pins arrive - not now! This isn't a survey defect, and we hope it's the first and last time we have to do this for a HUSTLE project.
Smoke test backers have a couple days to get their surveys set. If we don't have any major hiccups. everyone else'll get theirs later this week. We're currently a little early, but on track with timeline estimates.
Other than that, it's onto vectors and customs. There's a whopping 81 total designs to get production-ready - while everything is pretty clean, art-wise, it's time to assign pantones. Some pins already have perfect matches in my GAP set. Others need a fully new palette!
I do want to remind everyone: the next week or two is gonna be weird for work. I have some emergency repairs being done on my apartment, and I have to evacuate all of my pets and most of my personal living stuff into half the space. I'm waiting on an exact timeline for all this, but my office might be full of birds and an upright mattress.
BackerKit desktop might be inaccessible. Store stock and workspaces are being covered for biosecurity, and fulfillment will not be possible whatsoever. I can respond to emails but actual work might be on the back burner for the next 1-2 weeks.
I'll flex the new millenial gray vinyl floor when it's done, but it's gonna throw a wrench in some campaign work. I promise, I'll put the shop on a nice sale to apologize later.
Otherwise, let's check in when smoke tests are clear and surveys are out. Take it easy this week!
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