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Do they really need $35,000 to do this? It seems like so many people produce apps first and get paid later, I'm not sure what makes their situation different.
by kablamo 15y ago
Do they really need $35,000 to do this? It seems like so many people produce apps first and get paid later, I'm not sure what makes their situation different.
Thinking about this more, its brilliant that they put their project on kickstarter. It didn't click for me that people are using kickstarter this way. They get some extra marketing and some extra $. Interesting also that they aren't afraid of someone taking their idea because they have a head start.
Good moves.
- thegrossman 15y agoWe've been working on the app for a while, but our day jobs always came first. We eventually realized that without a source of funding, it wasn't going to happen any time soon. And we're completely in love with the idea of Kickstarter, so we figured we'd start there and only approach more conventional sources of funding as plan B.
- duck 15y agoHow did you arrive at $35,000?
- thegrossman 15y agoWith a lot of hand-waving. We figured out how much we needed to survive for 3 - 4 months, plus the cost servers for a certain amount of time, then factored in Kickstarter / Amazon's cut and the cost of the backer rewards. We kept getting a number that was too high. So we eventually decided "Screw it! $35,000 it is!". It's still probably too high... but we wanted to avoid, at all costs, asking for too little money and then not being able to deliver to our backers.