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Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by venomsnake »

CompelTechnic wrote: post #14
dopamean wrote: post #13

Maybe this isn't relevant but I've often wondered if it could be useful for people looking to raise money on Kickstarter to put a cap on the amount they raise. If you really only need 75k is it always a good thing to end up with way, way more than you asked for?

for people making physical products a cap would make sense. Printrbot was a pretty good example- order fulfillment took a lot longer than anticipated because of the high volume. On the other hand, delivering a desktop application is about equally difficult for 200 customers or 2000 customers, so the Macaw guys should just revel in their extra cash (aside from the stretch goals that they chose to take on as well, and…

Not entirely convinced. Too much money that you are obliged to spend can sink a project just as well as underfunding.

Due to some "Mythical man month" reasons adding more people and features can put you in quagmire easily unless you have very good project managers. I am not sure even those could bear the influx of order of magnitude more money than needed.

Kickstarters are not preorders.

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by ibdknox »

gfodor wrote: post #24
bbx wrote: post #16

Macaw is much closer to Fireworks than Photoshop. I've never used Fireworks but a colleague of mine did. It's so much better suited for web design. But Adobe failed to market it properly (I actually never heard of Fireworks before 2011, several years after I started). That's probably the reason why it's discontinued. Macaw tries to capitalize on this void left by Fireworks, a void that actually may have never been fi…

Macaw doesn't strike me as anything like Fireworks, other than the fact it is a tool for people creating assets for the web. Fireworks's killer feature was that it merged both vector and bitmap creation tools. Fireworks was great but it was primarily focused on creating image assets that will be displayed on a web page. (The best tool for this nowadays imho is Sketch.) Macaw is basically taking another stab at the Dr…

Reminds me of the early days of Microsoft FrontPage. Make some hand modifications to the html and accidentally move something.

Then stare in terror as all of your work just disappears.

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by wmf »

venomsnake wrote: post #32
CompelTechnic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for people making physical products a cap would make sense. Printrbot was a pretty good example- order fulfillment took a lot longer than anticipated because of the high volume. On the other hand, delivering a desktop application is about equally difficult for 200 customers or 2000 customers, so the Macaw guys should just revel in their extra cash (aside from the stretch goals that they chose to take on as well, and…

Not entirely convinced. Too much money that you are obliged to spend can sink a project just as well as underfunding. Due to some "Mythical man month" reasons adding more people and features can put you in quagmire easily unless you have very good project managers. I am not sure even those could bear the influx of order of magnitude more money than needed. Kickstarters are not preorders.

Stretch goals will extend the schedule (something that Kickstarter doesn't really explain), but you don't have to have stretch goals. If people give you more money than you need you can just keep it.

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

#38

Post by apierre »

It looks very nice, it makes me think of Flux.

The problem with wysiwyg editors from previous generations (Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) is that you could never arrange the layout the way you wanted and ended up being developers worse enemies with the poor code being generated.

Now you'll have the power of Photoshop (Positioning, layers, transparency, etc) with a clean code output (grid aware, responsive, css3)

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by agnuku »

_wesley_ wrote: post #33
dopamean wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These jeans look awesome. Well done.

Thanks! It's been a wild ride this year

Congrats! We are prepping for our KS early next year and been dissecting successful campaigns including Gustin's. Really like your video.
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