How I Manufactured and Sold Electronic Badges - Part 1: Designing and Prototyping the Board

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My experience designing and manufacturing a 'social battery' pin badge to sell online.
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I figured I’d get started with something simple, something I could test the waters of not just PCB assembly but also e-commerce. My plan was to come up with a small item that I could realistically design and submit for manufacture in less than a day, then hopefully sell reasonably easily on a marketplace like Etsy. I was expecting the design and manufacturing side of things to be the hard part and listing the product on Etsy to be easy, but it was very much the other way around as you will see if you keep reading!