In case you missed it last week, the Project Fedora Kickstarter was a complete success.
The target was actually hit June 7th, but things really exploded on June 6th. That was the day of “Update #19: The Magnificent 7!”
See, after 22 days of modest growth the Kickstarter was pretty much on target to hit the $450K goal shortly before the end date. Most days were averaging around $9K. It was then that the folks at Big Finish Games posted their 19th project update.
In this update, we were notified that as a result of hitting 4500 backers, the Magnificent 7 (7 unknown high donors) would be donating $4K for every $6K raised starting at $386K, as a means to leapfrog the way to the $450K project goal.
I don’t know what they were expecting, but things exploded!!! Within minutes $20K had been raised and within hours we were within $20K of the goal which was achieved the next morning. it was all very exciting as you could imagine. Overall almost $100K was raised in that 24 hour period.
In the end over $600K was raised (including Paypal donations) which is pretty good compared to projects like SpaceVenture & Pinkerton Road. I would have preferred a lot more, but considering $600K was raised by only 7000 backers (SpaceVenture & Pinkerton had over 10K backers each) I guess we can’t complain.
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