Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, I wanted to run you through some big shop updates,
and business updates, and channel updates. As you can probably see, we are not in my warehouse,
despite having a warehouse for this business. The business has grown steadily, and we are just
bursting at the seams in our current warehouse. There's a certain amount of inventory we have to
carry and hold and space for the printers, and ultimately when we run out of space,
everything ends up back here in my garage where this all started up in Washington. Over here in
the garage, we've got a bunch of 3D printers running, and I've had to run these personally,
as well as have employees come over to my house to run these, and of course, we've got our main
print farm which is at the warehouse. This split operation obviously isn't ideal for running the
business, so we are in the process of moving. We will be moving in the beginning of November,
which, as you can probably imagine, is pretty crazy timing. The holiday season is, of course,
our busiest time of year, and we are going to be moving just before the start of the busy season.
For those of you who have been with me for a while, you probably know most of the backstory but
this business started totally by accident i was brewing beer and loved that hobby and sold all
my stuff out off and had had a little bit of money sitting aside and wanted to put it towards another
hobby and i loved the nerf stuff and bought one 3d printer i designed the hurricane and people were
knocking down my door trying to ask me to ask me to buy they wanted to buy one from me and pretty
soon one printer turned into two two turned into four four turned into eight and i realized that
i was not going to be able to make this work in california in my garage we then move the business
to oregon and then finally up to washington where we are now the business was then in this space and
also occupying two two and a half other rooms in my house plus some storage and a shed and then we
ultimately had to get our first warehouse and so moving to this this next step this next warehouse
is probably the biggest one yet uh both for me personally it's it's a a big step because as much
as i like this stuff in my house running printers every night before bed the moment you get up and
sometimes in the middle of the night is really not conducive to a good night's sleep or a good
family life so it's going to be wonderful to get this all in one place it also makes
managing the business and running the business a lot easier and it's easier for my print tech
to actually keep track of the printers and repair them and keep our logs accurate so
it's been a long journey and i'm really really excited for this next step i can't wait to share
it with you and we'll have a lot more to come on this as we move forward thank you so much for your
orders and for your support and for watching the channel i'm really thrilled that this hobby has
grown as much as it has and i'm so happy to be a part of that so thank you thank you thank you
from my friends my family to my employees uh we really appreciate you supporting the business
and we love doing this so don't go anywhere keep placing your orders we're not actually closing
down the shop the web store will all remain open while we move we're going to move and transition
as fast as we possibly can we are going to ship all the way up until sunday the first and then we
will essentially halt shipping for three or four days to resume shipping on the fourth or fifth of
november so if you place an order in in that time period you'll get an automatic email and there'll
be a notice on the website telling you that we'll ship a few days later we appreciate your orders
during this time obviously your support is crucial in our growth and in moving into a larger space
i will have a full tour of the new space and a moving video as well because i think people are
going to find that really fun our new place that we're moving into is about twice the size of our
current one so it's a substantial step forward but as you can see in from some of these videos of our
current space we are just packed to the gills we are out of room for filament we don't have
any more room for printers we're out of power we've got stations that are sort of jumbled
on top of each other where one station is used for five or six different products and as you
can imagine that causes a lot of headaches one of the big things i am starting to learn more about
is lane manufacturing and just getting generally more organized so we are hoping in the new space
to dedicate different zones for each different area and i'd love to hear what kind of behind
the scenes and warehouse content you are all interested in it's something that we haven't done
very much of i did one warehouse tour when we were sort of in the middle of the time that we've been
at the current one but if you're interested in seeing more of that i'd love to shoot more of
that because it sounds kind of unique and a little more interesting to me but i'd love to hear what
you think in the comments on that because i'm obviously the only one in the us running a shop
of this scale and so we have kind of different things going on would you like to hear more about
running the print farm would you like to hear more on the business side of things i'm willing to talk
about pretty much anything so if there's a topic you'd like covered hit us up in the comments and
we'll add it to our video list some other really big changes i'm hiring my first actual mod tech
which is someone uh we'll announce a little bit later but this uh person is going to also be
helping out with sort of technical emails product development and and a few more things like that
because currently most of my team are not hardcore nerfers they like nerf in general but they're not
necessarily out there modding and playing every weekend so it's going to be really exciting to
have another person in-house that is really into the modding scene and has a lot of experience in
addition to that we've also hired a video intern who's been helping create these great videos
and that's been fabulous because one of the biggest hold ups in getting video content done
is me when you have to handle all the marketing branding administrative work the product creation
the design the 3d print management the tasks are endless in the business and i love all of
it it's all a really fun complex game for me but at the end of the day i have to at some point say
you know what i probably shouldn't spend 8 hours a week 10 hours a week editing videos when i could
hire somebody else that can focus on that task do a better job and kind of keep me on on schedule
as well it's going to be a really uh big move a lot of fun we're definitely going to be posting
on social media during the move i think once we're settled we'll also run a good video of
how that move went and kind of behind the scenes. Thank you so much for your support,
as always. We really appreciate your patience during this couple days that we will be down
and won't be shipping. My whole team is on board and ready to rock and just make
this happen as quickly as possible so we can transition to getting your orders out six or
seven days a week, just like we do now -- and hopefully doing it in an even faster
and more responsive manner again. Thank you for watching. Until next time, I'm out of darts.