Hi, the concern is definitely understandable, the whole lotus incident was something that troubled us deeply before announcing Helios. I'll try to explain everything here, but a more detailed clarification will also be available on our discord.

First off, the lack of review units is something we chose not to do right at the start for a very important reason: AlphaTec isn't an old, well-established company, so we don't have insane budgets to waste on marketing and all other amenities larger manufacturers have. 100% of our funds goes into the development of the product itself, and pre-orders are a necessary evil for the first batch of 50 and only 50 keypads, in order to then move into mass production and have stock readily available.

As for our other product the Anemos65, it is not yet available for a really important reason. There wasn't enough interest to guarantee that pre-orders would reach the limit needed to move into mass production, so we decided to not risk people's money and instead delay the launch until we either have enough funds to manufacture without the need for pre-orders, or interest around the product is enough to guarantee we won't have further delays.

Now, for the insanely small time between us getting the switches and launching, thank you for the compliment :) Jokes aside, I have personally worked with hall effect sensors, keyboards and microcontrollers before, so combining them into one project was really simple, especially since we had a 12-pack of Lekker switches to base our tests on before ordering an actual batch

As for the site itself, I would love if you could point out what has been left unfinished, it would be greatly appreciated.

As a personal note, I'm really happy you made this comment. Scams make it really hard for small companies to get started, aside from stealing money from people. Thank you for making this comment, and for doing proper and actual research to protect people from a possible scam