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I've been following this for a while, and I'm excited to see it start to come together. I hope a lot of people aren't turned off by this pseudo Kickstarter, and

• drharris 13y ago
  I imagine Kickstarter turned them down because of potential liability if something goes wrong. Replacing food with chemicals makes sense to scientists and engineers, but I imagine this has the potential to be lawsuit-heavy for the average people out there (my back aches, must be the Soylent). Edit: specifically, these two guidelines: - Projects cannot offer financial, medical, or health advice. - No tobacco, drugs, and drug paraphernalia; energy food and drinks; or nutritional supplements.
  • jonathanjaeger 13y ago
    Kickstarter is for creative projects with a finite ending point. For example, you can't launch a website and raise funds on Kickstarter so you can pay engineers -- it needs to be a concrete project, not "I want to start a company." The same is true for Soylent, it isn't framed as a project.
• machinshin_ 13y ago
  The campaign's powered on the open-source Crowdhoster platform, which is a Crowdtilt project. They recently wrote a blog post about updates to the platform: http://blog.crowdtilt.com/post/50939274192/updating-crowdhoster-building-accessible-open-source http://blog.crowdtilt.com/post/50939274192/updating-crowdhos...