Things I learnt from trying to sell a single leather wallet on Kickstarter
In 2018, my brother and I finally made a video, uploaded it on Kickstarter as a Quickstarter and achieved a small goal that we were embarrassed to have- make a single “sale” of a physical product that we created. Almost 2 years later, a backer still reached out for more.
My brother and I wanted to sell a simple leather cardholder.
This all started when my brother got into leather products. He had a phase where he was into leathercraft and handstitched his own leather wallet, clutch etc. Through this hobby, he learnt how to identify quality leather products with quality workmanship. So, he approached a manufacturer to prototype a high quality stitched wallet which he wanted to sell.
Months past and he finally had in his hands the sample of the product he was excited to share with the world- a simple no-nonsense quality leather cardholder which could be used as a wallet. It was stitched with top grain leather and RFID protection.
Of course, he (and I) had the fanciful hopes and dreams that this would be the start of a multi-million dollar brand that would allow us to go on fancy holidays and drive posh cars. However, we decided to start with 1 goal — sell just o-n-e.
