A shoe designer shows how to make just one sneaker without hitting typical factory minimums. He recommends mychonly.com for low-quantity orders and custom designs, and says he checked their samples in person at a trade show.
So you want to make shoes? You have some great ideas for footwear, but you don't want to make 500 pieces, and you want to make them with someone reputable that isn't too expensive. You need to check out mychonly.com and scroll to the low MOQ shoes section. They have a lot of very cool base models you can customize, or if you can up your quantities a little bit, they can do something completely custom for you. The quality is very good, and I actually held their products at a trade show. If you're looking for more sneaker factories, check out my Patreon. I have a bunch of them listed. Link is in my bio.