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You could try updating your backers and see if they will pay the postage for the devices they already paid for! Honestly, the mentality of some kickstarter crea
by supermatt 3y ago
You could try updating your backers and see if they will pay the postage for the devices they already paid for! Honestly, the mentality of some kickstarter creators is beyond belief.
If you have the devices, that you acknowledge that people paid for, then at least attempt to provide your backers with something.
You didn't go into receivership as you still have the assets - at the moment you just sound like a fraudster.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI did attempt to give the backers something. For years I did the best that I could. I went in to tens of thousands of dollars of personal debt just to be able to produce the boards, and then had to work a full time job to pay off that debt. Working full time and paying off debt left very little time or money to pack the items and pay to ship them. After years of burnout I was spending all weekend packing and shipping items, and after doing that for months, and at some point after delivering about 1/2 the hardware I just hit a wall. I was unable to continue. My mental health was horrible. It continues to be the worst period of my life, and I gave it everything I could for 5 years. I very much gave what I could, but when you fuck up in business sometimes you just have to walk away. I really needed to for my own mental health. The product launched in 2013 and I walked away from it in 2018. It took me years to recover. To this day I can’t really even stand to mail simple packages. I’m not going back - that period of my life is over. I just never figured out what the product was really good for, so I’ve been unsure who to donate the remaining stock to.