here is a yoyo i made i was wondering if anyone would buy it so i can get them manufactured off give me some feedback thanks
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alu type? weight? dia?width? bearing? side profile? possible colors? finish? price?
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What would you like feedback on? It would help I think if I knew a little more about the yo-yo. Specs and shape and such.
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I respect and appreciate your initiative. But what I’m seeing is not actually a yo-yo you’ve made, it’s a rendering of a yo-yo you designed.
Real nice image by the way.
First thing to focus on is very simple. Did you design the yo-yo using the science of spinning objects? In other words, did you calculate approximately the final weight and how it would be distributed from the edges of the rims to the center of the yo-yo?
As Kaede already mentioned, You need to provide the various specifications, including the material type to be used.
Once you calculate your weight distribution and complete your program, You need to find a machine shop that’s willing to take on the task.
You have to calculate your root costs to get you a functional prototype. Once you get a prototype, you need to toss it around and have other people try it out to see how close you are to something that will function to the level you are expecting at the price point you are calculating.
In calculating your costs, you have to factor in that there will probably be more than one prototype needed. It could be two or three or four prototypes necessary over a period of weeks and possibly months.
If the yo-yo will be sold with a raw aluminum finish, at least you may reduce cost somewhat by reducing the headache of finding somebody that can put the appropriate finish with a high level of success in order to keep down your failure rate. In other words, let’s say that you are so optimistic and positive about the performance of your design in the Proto stage that you make a deal with the machine shop to make you 200 yo-yo halves so theoretically you’ll end up with 100 complete yo-yos… Theoretically.
If the yo-yos will be anodized or some other finish application, that cost has to be factored in and the turnaround time to get all your halves back.
If a miracle occurs and all 200 yo-yo parts are successfully anodized without a single failure, then you move on to the assembly in quality control stage.
At that point, hopefully another miracle will occur in all 100 yo-yos will be A grade?
If 75% of them turned out to be a grade, then you will have 75 yo-yos to sell that you’re suggested decided retail and 25 yo-yos to sell at a reduced rate, if those 25 all come out to be B grades? It’s possible you may decide that of those 25 that aren’t A grades, Some of them may go right into the recycling bin.
Once you have identified the percentage of A grade and the percentage of B grade And the percentage of trash grade, then you may have to re-calculate your projected price point. Your expectation should be not necessarily to make a profit on your first release. It should be more a plan to minimize your possible losses and not ‘lose your pants’.
Since this will be your first yo-yo design and you would be considered the new guy with the new yo-yo, your final retail price point may have to be adjusted slightly downward in order to inspire people to take a chance and buy your yo-yo?
If you are unfortunate enough to have a couple problems during the step-by-step process of making a complete yo-yo for sale, it’s possible that even if you sell every single yo-yo you make, you may not end up with enough profit to justify all the time in trouble and expense, you’ve gone to up to that point.
Obviously, I’m not trying to deliberately discourage you, simply because of the fact that there are so many smaller boutique type yo-yo makers that have done OK for at least a certain length of time. But you have to take the consideration that many more of the smaller makers have faded out than the ones that have stuck around. The most recent to my recollection, is rain city skills. Owned and operated by a guy that actually wrote a small book on how to run a yo-yo business. Nice guy very talented good team players excellent products, good price points and he’s fading out because it’s just not worth it to him for whatever reasons?
Making yo-yos is just like starting karate. Nobody starts as a black belt. But if they practice and they try hard enough, and they have the right mindset, the next thing you know they have a black belt and they are instructing the new kids.
The primary difference with that abstract analogy is that taking the long road to becoming a black belt in martial arts, doesn’t have financial ramifications that you encounter when you’re trying to start a yo yo business. But what the two do have in common is very simple. You have to be willing to commit your time and energy to achieve your end goal. To successfully make of functional yo-yo that people like enough to buy and enjoy and then maybe you move on to your next yo-yo project?
Right now with the rendering of a nice looking yo-yo, you were at the very beginning of what could be a long and expensive trip. It’s known in industry nationwide that four out of five businesses fail within the first three years. If they make it that long.
But that certainly doesn’t keep people with initiative and reasonably good ideas from continuously trying to make something happen.
You certainly seem to have a momentum right now at least from an enthusiastic and optimistic viewpoint. So my best suggestion is to just move along with what you’re doing and just keep at it. It’s certainly a learn by doing process. And there are at least a few guys on here that I’ve had every single problem I suggested you might run into. And I have no doubt that they would be willing to take turns helping you along if they see you’re really trying to get somewhere.
So as Kaede and Atomicheeseguy already mentioned, provide all of us with as much information as you can… And if you keep the flow going, provide more information as you can, as it becomes available. Remember or at least never forget, that when you’re moving forward with the project, there’s no such thing as too much good information.
But to participate in a mission, such as yours, the more information you can provide, minimizes the guessing others have to do in providing additional information or insight that you may be able to use
Good luck….
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It looks very similar to several other throws out there. What makes it different? What are its strengths?
As others have said before, having specs will go a long way.