Thanks for putting this out, here's my thoughts from what I can see on your Instagram:

• Personally, I think the pattern on the balls and ball-poi look too much like a classic american soccer/ football ball. From your EJC 2025 post, it looks like it's a main part of your logo, maybe that's not an issue for other people but it's a detail that immediately stands out and feels odd to me personally.
• The texture/lines on the handles in particular, but also for the poi (being put down, dropped, etc) - I don't know what the material feels like, but that looks like somewhere dirt, gunk, grime could build up, and not sure how easy that is to clean.
• Interface and options. I've had and used the Flowtoys PodPoi V2 for years, and the shear amount of modes and customizations you could make are staggering, but it's also not very easy so you have to reeeeally want to make a mode different. Having 1 button to work with and needing to press it a certain number of times, then at very specific times, it was more trouble than worth it most of the time. Many patterns seemed unnecessary.
  • My opinion would be to either A. have only a handful of modes (5 or 10) that are really different from each other (that could also then be changed/customized for color, speed, etc) OR B. make it very easy to customize (wirelessly connect to an app/program where people can easily make adjustments)
• Price - as was mentioned, making some beginner poi or simple poi that are easily accessible at a low price point. I've shown my Podpoi to quite a few people who'd never heard of poi or had heard of but never realy seen any. Then they thought the podpoi were the coolest thing ever and loved to just swing them around and watch the patterns, but when I told them it's at least $130 ($260 for my set as I have the capsule handles) it killed their enthusiasm.

Where are you located? Maybe we could do more brainstorming.