Re:Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers
by whywhywhywhy on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:17AM
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The branding/art direction definitely makes it more interesting and sharable.
Makes a difference when you nail those things.
Re:Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers
by oxapentane on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:42AM
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The folks behind the project did a lot of posts on design/development for the past year. Unfortunately mostly in Russian.
Here's reddit post in english from a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/TechNewsToday/comments/g4vkqf/flipp...
And here's pre-kickstarter post in russian, that kinda sums up everything that was posted before: https://habr.com/ru/post/513074/
Edit: and even here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=flipperzero.one
Hey, let me know if anything unclear from automatic translation, I'll try to explain. (I'm not the founder just really like this concept)
The main creator of this has been posting about his progress for months, personally I've been following its development ever since I first saw it. It's such a neat project that I can totally believe this being entirely organic growth.
The project was discussed multiple times on hacker news and other platforms. People signed up for special price long time ago.
> how they were able to reach enough people to get to 200% of their goal in so short time?
6 hours later, that $130k is now $437k. And it was up for a bit before GP posted their comment - 30 to 50 minutes, I think, so a good chunk of that 200% may well be from here as well.
What I wonder is, did they have a following from before, and that is how they were able to reach enough people to get to 200% of their goal in so short time? Or did it simply spread organically because of how awesome it is? The video was really good and convincing. I just always wonder this because I would like to do a Kickstarter for a project of my own some day maybe, but don’t have any following so I think my project would not receive enough backers. But if it is possible to get backing without a pre-existing big group of followers then that is very encouraging.
Edit: Also, what’s the name of the chiptune at the end of the video again? I’ve listened to that one many times before but can’t remember what it was called.