Hi guys! I sent you a message through Kickstarter, I'm enthusiastic to help you make your app idea happen, because to be honoust, I don't think your app is getting funding. Pledgers want revenue share next to making it happen. Also, can you tell me which Tumblr theme you used for this site? I want to use it as well :)
Got your message on Kick starter.You're right, the project won't get funded. However, another company reached out a while back and offered some free APIs that will make sharing features much more affordable (well, free). Additionally, we have been developing in the meantime and made more progress than we thought.The issue with kickstarter for software is ultimately the rewards. Physical products are simple, because as long as people like the idea, the pledge just functions are a pre-order. But how do you offer multiple reward levels for a potential 2 dollar app? Also, Apple doesn't have a reap beta system, so you're limited to 3rd party solutions that only offer 50-100 users on alpha/beta... That you can't just give them away.Swag? T-shirts and shit, well, it is an app. Who wants a shirt of some random app that no ones heard of? Maybe some hipsters or nerds who love being different (nothing against either, that's who we are), but either way that's won't take your project to the next level. Not to mention, that stuff winds up being expensive and is a lot to slap on the goal.We plan on finishing as much we can and moving to indiegogo, using the "if you fail, you still get the dough," model, and using whatever that dollar funding is to accelerate our Dev process as much as possible. But of course, this was a side project that we hoped with real funding we could bring to the foreground. We have tons of projects.For your theme question, the page is custom. And in the case I ever user tumblr themes, I tend to chop them up until theyre completely Frankensteined.To the "share" thing, you think a better model for these projects is to give backers "shares" into the product/company itself? I have heard this before, and it's tricky. I think it all comes down to project type. In Eeto's case, we aren't trying to make money with it, honestly, maybe some spare change. However that's not to say a massive software venture, like an ecosystem or cross-platform solution for a specific vertical market, wouldn't benefit from such a model. The issue you'd have is "backers" on kick starter don't care much about vertical. If they like it, and want it, they'll back it. But if I, for example, made software to revolutionize the hospital work space, the odds of medical professionals with cash spending time on a site like that are dismal. The other fault is maintenance. I've dealt with share holders... It sucks. Haha.But I know what you're saying, and it has some merit for sure.













