Production Update - First Units Shipped!

Rejoice! Hear the herald angels sing! Miracle of miracles after four years of sweat and tears retail-packaged units arrived to a handful of early-customers today!

These units are hand assembled, each part and component, is refined by hand to ensure they work. But, they function properly and sound great. Each of them sounds a bit different - but alive in every sense of the word. As an owner you hear the first note hit and hold for a second...'eeeeee'. Next the kettles heartbeat comes onboard, the piston goes 'ker chunk, ker chunk' as it cycles up and down. The the melody of Tea for Two whistles in your kitchen. 

They work!

I am an optimistic person by nature and I guess that's why I'm crazy enough to have invested so much in this product. It also means I have under estimated the engineering complexity of the product. It is damn hard to make - not impossible but hard. It's hard because all of the stakeholders aren't in one room. It's hard because I've self-financed the project and funds are limited. It's hard because factories go weary after a few years of toiling on the same project. It's really hard because factories lose manufacturing parts, switch materials without notice, lower quality standards, and inflate prices because they feel like they have your feet to the fire.  

I'm having my first born in March. Yay! We have until then to get the unit economics right so the business can self sustain with no further investment. Otherwise we will only be able to ship out the 300 pre order units. And that would be a sad world with only 300 singing tea kettles.

I'm waiting on kettle bodies, plastic housing for handle and I have to produce 3x the number of parts for piston and cylinder to get kettles to work. With each batch and iteration we learn a lot more and get closer to the finish line. 

Thanks for your support; if you want to get involved further give me a call to discuss investing.