I don't understand why people are so quick to cast aspersions. It's not "fishy". It's a huge undertaking. Regardless of how much they've built, there's no way

I don't understand why people are so quick to cast aspersions. It's not "fishy". It's a huge undertaking. Regardless of how much they've built, there's no way the product is "already basically finished" (as if one could know that), it almost certainly will need work to accommodate the change in focus, and technology is not the hardest part of the challenge anyway. The thought that went through my mind when I saw the number is that $500K is awfully low, given the scale of what he's talking about. But then I read more and it's clear that he proposes that number as a sort of idea validation. One can argue for or against that but you have no cause to impugn his honesty. I don't fully get the idea yet; "API-oriented Twitter" only gets me so far. But this: fired me up so much about this proposed service that I have had trouble sleeping ... I recognize and immediately sympathize with.