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Fair point Ryan, in early days of our business we invested time in Styleforum/Reddit but the ROI was very low, so we changed our focus. But it looks like we need to get back to the…

thanks TJ, Sidra here (co-founder Markhor). Appreciate you buying our shoes and sharing the experience. The shoes indeed look great on you.

Good idea, especially the second one. Appreciate your advice.

Thanks, those are really good points and we'll take some time to think about how to communicate this better. I mentioned pregnant women because the ones I've seen doing this work s…

We started Markhor with a small group of craftsmen in our village. At that time (early 2012) they were making just men handcrafted shoes. So it was natural to start with just men s…

I personally would love women (or anyone) to work if they want to. Unfortunately, exploitative situations are common in the shoe industry in developing countries and some of the mo…

Right now this is in beta and we are testing this with 10 customers every week, where we make a new pair for them. In future we want to have this information available for ready to…

Making a handcrafted shoe is a physically intensive job so we are being careful towards this. Perhaps at some point, as the company grows we would be able to invest more in this ar…

Depending on the order size a craftsman make $400-800/month. Unfortunately right now our order size is not as big as we/craftsmen would like it to be, so they also have to work for…

Our derbies use the welt and we practice blake-stitching method of shoemaking.

Hi HN, I’m the co-founder of Markhor. Our goal is to connect the customer directly with the craftsmen, who are making your products regardless of in which part of the world they're…