Oh boy, this immediately reminded me of a Kickstarter from 2013 -- the Zendock. It only raised 100K but that was decent for a KS back then. The creator tried but eventually couldn't finish the job before the money ran out. Unlike other failed projects in which backers have accepted failure, this one is, 4 years later, still attracting vitriol on a weekly, even daily basis: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coleflournoy/zendock-th...

This "dongle-killer" is a different beast...but I've found that these kind of hardware campaigns rarely go well. It's not just the inevitable missing of deadlines, but the non-guarantee that the creator will get the details right, everything from polish to MFi (when it comes to Apple's mobile devices), never mind long term durability.

It helps that this campaign is from a creator with experience in actually delivering. But when I read the comments from their most recent million-dollar campaign, I don't feel I could trust them to execute well on this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/isticktm-usb-...