Community Vote #23 - The Future of Endorphins Apparel!

Hello and welcome to Endorphins Community Vote 23!

If this is your first community vote welcome!! If you’ve been part of Endorphins for a while, you know the drill!

Endorphins is fully community led. We host community votes on the global and city level to ensure we are constantly putting the best interest of you and our members first! In community votes we ask questions, collect answers, and then try to implement the feedback to the best of our ability! You can see some of the previous Community Votes in this thread!

Below you will find a google form with a handful of questions. Your input will help shape the future direction of our community and we look forward to your hearing your feedback.

Community Vote 23 will be about the future of Endorphins gear, singlets, crops, drops, and performance apparel!!!

Over the past year we have done several limited batch drops of lifestyle apparel. To be real with you, wearing Endorphins gear isn't really about the apparel; it's about being part of something bigger. Our gear has the unique ability to unite our global community around our mission of spreading positivity and happiness. When you see someone wearing Endorphins gear, whether it's on a run, at an expo, or in the wild it creates an instant connection and a sense of belonging that is different from other brands. We all share miles together in person, have created amazing memories with one another, and have ultimately created an incredible community that has each others back! This shared identity and camaraderie makes Endorphins incredibly special! Despite not all living in the same city, like our mission, Endorphins apparel is yet another way that unites us!

One huge piece of feedback we have heard since starting Endorphins in November 2022 has been… lifestyle products are great… but you can’t wear our shirts or hoodies on the run. Many of you have asked for performance wear to train in, wear to group runs, and to cross the finish line in.

For additional transparency, creating lifestyle products is much easier than creating performance products. The minimum quantities are lower for lifestyle products which allows us to do small batch drops without needing to commit to production orders in the quantity of thousands. The downside of doing small batch drops is that our lifestyle products have been on the expensive side. The fewer the items we order, the higher the cost of the items.

Additionally, the timelines for creating lifestyle products are FAR shorter than performance product. We are able to create lifestyle products in 30 - 60 days! Performance products can take up to 9 months and are a greater investment of capital and energy! With this in mind, the feedback from this vote may not be incorporated for quite some time. However, before we embark down the path of creating performance products, like always, we want to pulse check you and our community to see if this is something we should pursue!

In today’s vote, we will be looking to your feedback on Performance Apparel products like singlets, race crops, socks, hats, and anything else you’d like Endorphins to try and create. As always, we will take your input and feedback into consideration when creating our first iteration of performance products!