Raja123 Lets be clear, they have some influencers on the payroll and a massive team. As for beta testers being paid…I never said anything about beta testers?
A lot of the money is going to disappear in wages, premises, exhibitions, design, prototyping CNC work, trying to set up a proper production line, support desk etc.. etc.. and various other payments for people who don’t come cheap.
Much of the money raised is going to disappear in that black hole and the longer the project runs over time, the more of that initial Kickstarter money will be sucked away. They stated dec 23 to deliver a product, I will be speechless and have to find a hat to eat if they deliver on time. I suspect it could be at least Dec24 and backers almost certainly wont get the product they have dreamt up in their own minds.
Plus they have all those stretch goals and Meticulous Milk and goodness knows what next to deliver, that takes time away from the main product, or they need to hire more people.
The machine “looks” all modern minimalist and interesting…but really I can see it being a novelty for a while before it turns into a major PITA to use. Imagine a 2 mates drop round and are offered a coffee.
- Latte please (sorry, doesn’t steam milk)
- Americano then, OK I’ll put on the kettle
- 7-10 minutes later, what would you like, oh I’ll have an expresso
- 7- 10 minutes later, you make your own coffee
- Clean up, and your left thinking, that was a ball ache
Kettles, small drip tray, and a long time between shots from everything I have seen so far. I tried to imagineer myself using something like that and realised quickly it’s not going to be fun and I think that could be true for a lot of backers.
