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Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
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That's not huge. One year of employment is nothing for such a product.
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.
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.