Basic Apple Pin
The Basic Apple Pin has launched!
May 12, 2025: I’m currently sold out of my first-run stock of 150 Basic Apple Pins. A new order has been placed and stock should arrive in early June. Thanks for the support!
At long last, the Basic Apple Pins are finally available! With a limited first-run stock of ~150, these pins feature the Basic Apple Guy logo on a 1-inch tall enamel pin.
Truth be told, I have been sitting on these pins forever. I ordered them in March of 2022 but kept procrastinating on their release. The last thing I wanted to do was launch a product I couldn’t get to people reliably. And over time, that rationalization meant this became an idea turned into another thing that I never returned to, with each passing day making it that much easier to avoid.
Over the fall, I created a couple of other products I wanted to release, starting with the Apple Intelligence and Basic Apple Guy stickers, and designed the stationary and supplies I needed to fulfill those orders. That process acquainted me with how to list products and familiarized me with the process of selling online. I silently released the stickers on January 12 (and announced them on January 23) and have been using them to slowly acclimate myself to the selling process. This expanded further with my line of Silicon Inside stickers, which I launched in February.
Selling my stickers has been proceeding smoothly for the past several months, which gave me the confidence to up the ante and publicly release my enamel pins. I never planned on selling them when I first ordered them, I mostly wanted a few for myself to put on my bags, but you don’t just custom order a half dozen metal enamel pins. And so, left with a stockpile, I am sharing the surplus with you.
Pin on the custom-designed cardboard backing.
Because the pins are currently in very limited supply, I am asking people to limit their orders to one per person for the time being.
And finally, I know the pins & shipping are expensive, they’re priced higher than I had hoped they would cost. But factoring that I am a small outfit, supplies cost way more in smaller batches, and after accounting for the price of the pin itself, plus the envelopes, protective packaging, processing fees, postage, spoilage, my time, and leasing a PO Box, I am by no means making away with a king’s ransom in selling these. I would need to sell over 150 of them to make enough profit to buy a set of Mac Pro wheels.
Basic Apple Pin
Dimensions: 19mm x 25.4mm (.75 x 0.96 inch).
I hope those who buy these enjoy them immensely. It’s been a dream of mine to work towards creating a physical product, and I couldn’t be happier with how these turned out. Enjoy!
