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Re:BackerTracker: Track crowdfunding projects and see how mu... by mbs348 on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:18PM (#11424560)
What we are trying to do is focus a bit more on building a model that is based on how projects have done in the past. Our model learns from each completed project, and helps create better predictions.

I am no Kicktraq expert, but I think their graphs boil down to something like rate of funding today * number of remaining days. I think they published a great blog post to this effect a few years ago.

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Re:BackerTracker: Track crowdfunding projects and see how mu... by punkybr3wster on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:11PM (#11425124)
You mean this one?

http://blog.kicktraq.com/the-state-of-projections/

Don't be intellectually dishonest. You aren't naive enough to not know they had this exact same functionality as big as they are and as long as they've been around.

You copied their projection charts which use a weighted historical model too. Your charts even look EXACTLY like theirs. Their projection also takes a few days to build an accurate estimation. So why did you really release this?

If you think you can do better, or have some other piece of functionality, just say so. Don't pretend you didn't know something like this didn't already exist.

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