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Originally Posted by sulu View Post
I think this formulation of the goal is misleading, since the next goal is clearly not to raise 100k Euros but to get 1000 serious donors.

I think this distinction is very important since it seems to me 100k Euros is almost a no-brainer:
If 200 people each donated 500 Euros* the 100k were reached.
But if you want 1000 preorders then the hard part is not the money but the sheer number of people.

Please fix that goal formulation!
I'm not alleging anything but in the current situation of the project (money is there, people are not) focussing on the money might raise suspicion.


*) I think both numbers are realistic because if the 100k is the only hurdle and the device will cost 500+ Euro anyways donating this amount is basically just a long shot prepayment.
The thing is - the donation does not mean that someone will buy the device for sure. We would have to only show donations >= 100 EUR (or even higher), which isn't very kind for people who donate less.

It's hard to do any measurement of "preorders" when there are no preorders yet.

We're thinking about better visualisations than this current progress bar and probably will change it soon - but for now there is this new goal to keep things rolling. I think it's better to have this 100k instead of just "infinity"

Personally, I think the text around the progress bar explains pretty well that the main focus lays now on the number of devices to produce.

(hopefully what I write is not too hard to understand, I'm feeling a bit sick today - tell me to go to bed if I start writing gibberish )
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