This crowdfunding campaign started on August 24. It was at $750000 after a month on September 26, needed ten more days to reach a million on October 4, and then somehow raised the remaining $500000 in five more days? This seems weird. They didn't have that much press over this last week.
I wonder if they had investors all along and only pretended to crowdfund.
(I'm not saying this is a scam or anything. I participated.)
Fair enough. Though now that the campaign has really achieved critical mass, is fully funded, and further people could buy in ostensibly without any risk... it has stagnated at 107% and not moved in at least 24 hours.
Yeah, that plus the fact that the campaign is just running on their own site (rather than a third-party crowdfund site like kickstarter, fig, crowdsupply or indiegogo) means that we're kind of relying on their word as to how much support they have really received.
My hope is that this is a successful campaign and that a good product is delivered, but the pre-order / crowdfund situation, at best, has an appearance of sketchiness.
I was (pleasantly) surprised by the fairly sudden jump too. I was an early backer and have been following the progress of the campaign and it looked like they were just going to make it last I checked, didn't expect to see it fully funded so early.
I wonder if they had investors all along and only pretended to crowdfund.
(I'm not saying this is a scam or anything. I participated.)