Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
> <i>we have been spending the majority of our engineering resources the past 8 months building a “secret project”.... Additionally, we already have much of this built: a polished native iOS app, a robust technical infrastructure currently capable of handing ~200MM API calls per day with no code changes, and a developer-facing API provisioning, documentation and analytics system. This isn’t vaporware.</i><p>So basically... it's already built.<p>> <i>To manifest this grand vision, we are officially launching a Kickstarter-esque campaign. We will only accept money for this financially sustainable, ad-free service if we hit what I believe is critical mass. I am defining minimum critical mass as $500,000, which is roughly equivalent to ~10,000 backers.</i><p>Oh that's interesting.  The grand vision will not manifest until $500k is raised.  But isn't the product already basically finished?<p>So what happens if they don't raise $500k?  Do they kill the product and flush 8 months of hard work (and presumably a bunch of money) down the drain?  Doubt it.  That doesn't make any sense.<p>Something is fishy here.