Yeah, I know... but it's a lot of promises.. and delays.
For almost one year I heard it's "almost" for sale!
There's a giant red banner at the top of the website that says "400 will be in stock this Saturday!"
There are numerous messages in this thread detailing the reasons for leaving Tindie and about the stock for this Saturday.
There's a big announcent on the Discord explaining all of this, plus lots of discussion on the matter.
If you'd been following the project, or taken a couple more seconds to read things, you'd know most of the delays are either me improving the product for everyone (it was good enough for me only to use at v14), or third parties screwing up orders I've placed, which I then have to fix. If you feel like complaining, I suggest you hand solder over 4000 components the size of a grain of salt, 4 hours after a long day of work every day for a month, then see how you feel. Also consider that this originally started as a project just for me, and now I have thousands of interested buyers. Those DragonInjectors don't just pop out of thin air, and scaling things up takes a ton of planning. Setting up a fulfillment center and filling out the documentation to send thousands of dollars of goods over the border does not happen in one day. Working with local print shop companies for custom art, sticker and card prints does not happen in one day. Filing a trademark application does not happen in one day. Importing 2000 game cases via sea shipping does not take one day. Ordering large quantities of lithium ion batteries and getting approval for shipping them myself does not happen in one day. Scaling up the project to meet demand is not easy or quick. The amount of work required behind the scenes is far greater than you know - the delays are not due to laziness on my part. I am one person, I already have a demanding day job, and with this project added on top of it I've been working 15 hour days for months now. Not to mention, all of this business stuff is very new to me, and requires a ton of research to make sure I'm not setting myself up for a visit from the feds. Selling 20 handmade products on a forum isn't a big deal. Selling thousands of them on a web store is
entirely different.
Seriously getting tired of people putting in more effort to complain then actually get themselves informed. I get that delays suck, and the development process has been much longer than anticipated, but I have been very adamant about not doing pre-orders and I've been communicating the process in detail this entire time.
Up until now I've had sympathy for those upset by delays, but at this point I've explained the reasons so many times in so many places that I'm just going to link this post from now on. A post I'm writing while I should be filling out customs export forms or prepping bar codes and ASNs for my fulfillment company, so that I can bring people the DragonInjector.
Remember that you have exactly zero stake in how this turns out right now. You haven't contributed to the project, you haven't put any money towards it and I've seen zero offers from you to help with anything despite it being an open-source community project.
Please consider all of this before you have me wake up to such a negative, useless post after staying up until 1am assembling 400 RCM jigs by hand.