Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What’s next for LTTstore.com?”.
Uh we tweeted out. What should we make next now that we have the backpack and screwdriver out is? Was there anything that you read that you were like? Actually, this is a good idea or something we should consider. There’S definitely some good ideas that I saw um. I saw someone posted that we should do a glow-in-the-dark, screwdriver um. I messaged that to Nick who said. Apparently it was already on the list and then Yvonne said that she had suggested it at some point.
So apparently it was already like wow on the you know, random future ideas list. I’D say some of the most obvious ones are a smaller version of the backpack get a lot of people asking for that. Yeah RGB screwdriver uh that I don’t think we have planned anytime soon smaller version of the backpack, though uh maybe cost it down as well yeah.
I think people might end up disappointed at how little it ends up affecting the cost, because most of the cost is in the construction, not the raw materials and the construction is really complicated. It’S it’s a really complex bag to manufacture. That’S a big part of why it costs so much. I saw a really interesting post breaking down how much we’ve made on backpack and screwdriver on Reddit um.
No way that’s accurate. It was not accurate our costs, so I just want to make it really clear uh. It it expected – or it estimated our costs at 25, of our retail price that is not even close on either backpack or screwdriver. Our costs are substantially higher than that on both of them because materials, construction Logistics, they all cost a lot of money more than you. Obviously, more than you think, they’re profitable we’re making money like it’s good. It’S it’s good business uh, but it’s not uh yeah we’re not making.
What would that work out to like 400 400 points on them? That’S that’s not happening um! Other stuff. I mean yeah. We’D love to do more variants of the screwdriver there’s an email from you that I need to respond to I’ve been mulling it over. I think Super no like aggressively. No, oh, wait! What did I say is this not? It was about um buying up a certain company, making a thing that I theoretically wanted at one point: oh okay, we should just talk about it. Uh I I pitched to Luke.
I was like hey. We have officially launched more tools than the colbar hammer company. Maybe we should just offer to buy them and finally push it over the Finish Line. No, no, no! No! No! No! For for a wide variety of reasons, I think no! No! No! No! No! I’D love to hear more about your reasons, um! It has taken this long. What do you think the state of the projects? I don’t know if you buy the company, do you buy their debt um? I don’t know. Maybe, but do you make the coal bar hammer and do you make that? Do you let’s go? Do you want to make the call Forever? Would you be better off just sicking, Kyle or whoever else on ice? It makes no sense, but let’s say you even wanted to make a hammer.
I think you’d be better off just having him design a hammer instead of just buying out this. Probably at this point in time, not even good design for a hammer and like it tries to do way too many things if all you had to do was be able to break into a crowbar and also be a hammer, and that was it and just limited. The other stuff he could probably make one that was way better. I have some bad news Luke. What top message? I should call it top keckage [ Laughter ] from Nick light, not gon na lie. I thought about the coal bar idea a month or so ago.
I think it’s hilarious and I’m down how many people are even gon na get the joke this. It doesn’t have to be a joke. Maybe we can actually make it good.
Why would you want to make a what relevant, okay, backpack backpack I get it? I didn’t buy it from me. I have a hammer, it’s great, it’s a hunk of metal that goes up and then goes both directions and all the other crap it does darn it. Ah I don’t, I don’t think most people are going to get the joke. It doesn’t even have to be a joke. What, if it’s just good bar hammer for my dad, says Conrad heck yeah, we can all buy one right.
I was gon na say if we sell. If we sell a cool bar hammer, the indirect indirectly to everyone’s dad, then it’s fine we’re doing great great business model in all seriousness, um. I do have one that I’m pretty excited about. That is very early stages, so who knows if it’ll ever even make it across the finish line, but I want to do a battery bank that is kind of steam deck style, so, oh, don’t replace the cells, but also, if you’re gon na, do it. Here’S how to do it, yeah that’d be sweet, so the idea would be like the last battery Bank. You would ever buy yeah um.
If it’s, if it’s possible, you know I’d love to figure out if there’s a way for us to make the firmware upgradeable so that, if you know, let’s say someone like Nintendo who uses USB PD but in kind of a wonky different than everyone else’s way. So your switch can die if you use a standard power, brick like um. You know that sort of thing right. So if there’s a way for us to Firmware update it so that we can account for things like that, obviously things bad things might still happen. But if we can continue to to tweak it over time, I think that would be a super, valuable product and I think that’s one of the big things uh that we’re we’re really gon na continue to focus on as we go forward because that’s what’s really differentiated Backpack and screwdriver is we figured out what we wanted to exist and then made it exist right like with something like a t-shirt, I think there’s a little less room for Innovation, but for something like that um that battery bank, I think absolutely we are identifying something That is a is a problem and we’re fixing it.
I hate to say it. Yeah, it’s been said a million times. It’S been thought about. I think it might have even been decided to not do, but if you do socks and if you do sandals you’ve literally completed the outfit you could walk outside respectively, maybe not respectively, you could walk outside legally wearing entirely LTT clothing. That would be pretty sick.
I understand it’s hard to do, but that would be pretty sick and the amount of people that would buy socks and sandals LTT Edition, I think, is, I think, is pretty solid. I think there’s a business argument there as well um. I need new socks, pretty bad. I’Ve been holding out for like years the real motivation – yeah, oh for I’m, being transparent about it um.
It’S time I have to go, buy new socks, so we’re not going to hit my time window. Unfortunately, but uh yeah, I think that’d be sweet, um, darn, tough! If you guys want to work together, hit me up, yeah, um, deodorant. Frankly, we don’t make anything. We couldn’t make anything strong enough for our audience. Um love you guys, but bare feet is nerd hygiene, legal, not everywhere.
There are places that you have to have coverings on your feet. .