- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they’ve already smashed their campaign goal.
But they still need your help!
Huge goals can scare off people from donating/financing
That’s not huge. One year of employment is nothing for such a product.
If I’m seeing someone wants to raise 100k and I’m one of the first people to go on that Kickstarter, meaning only a tiny % is financed yet, I might think “this is not gonna make it, makes no sense for me to pledge money”
The biggest kickstarter goal I know of was the Ubuntu Edge (a linux smartphone) was 30 million and they got 12 million.
Look at the list of most successful kickstarters. There are projects with goals of 1M (books), 100k(table top game), 950k (video game console), and many more. 100k isn’t the world when talking about software like this.
It’s a lot for an average donor, though. “Huge” is not in relationship to the project’s needs. It’s in relationship to what the donor thinks is a lot of money or not.