Kickstarter
We chose to launch the EscapeCapsule on www.kickstarter.com.
The video was
entirely written and filmed by Josh & June on our iPhones inside
prototypes of
the EscapeCapsule. Kickstarter was a pretty amazing experience for us.
Within the first week of being launched, we were written up in first in
TechCrunch and then Gadget.com, Techfever.net, gayakuman, Coolest Gadgets, Geek.com, Crnchy, BoomerTechRadio, iPhoneinCanada.ca, SpicyTricks, and tech podcast called "Just the Tech" to name a few. The article from TechCrunch spread like wildfire to other online sites,
blogs, Twitter and Facebook and we found the story translated into Spanish, Russian, and Chinese. The EscapeCapsule was also featured on MacMagazine in Brazil on their YouTube channel.
Our Kickstarter project has been an amazing and inspiring experience for us. The positive comments and support poured in from around the world kept us going on many late nights. We have met and continue to meet so many interesting people along our journey. A lot has happened since we first pressed the button to launch that late fateful night. We met our funding goal within two weeks. In hindsight it would have worked to keep our project on Kickstarter for longer than 30 days as our project is still going viral around the net, and we get daily requests to pre-order our product. We are currently developing our tooling and gearing up for full scale production. You can view our Kickstarter page and follow our product development process on our blog through the links below.
THANK YOU
We would not be where we are at now without the generous support and advice of many talented individuals in the fields of design, engineering, business, trading, marketing, sales, journalism, branding, and international trademark and patent law. We would like to thank and acknowledge the following people for their contribution to Catalyst:
Carl & Jill Wright, Lucy & Bill Lai, Claudio Vietta, Cassandra Chan, Yvonne Young, Debbie Ma, He Jing, Jennifer Chen, Jensen Powels, David Ericsson, Oliver Breit, Boris Popov, Jon Parry-Jones, Felix Grimm, Pete Szucs, Bill Mackin, Martin Smith, Babbet Smith, Lawrence Wan, Stan Shen Yan, Mark Cosgrove, Partab Bharvani, Linda Cheung, Annie Li, Daisy Chan, Vivian Liu, Nick Street, Rachel Smith, Alex Wright, Fiona Zhang, John Koh, Mahesh Pamnani, Chad Gerson, James Barnes, Ajmal Samuels, Terence Sin, Giedrius Sruogis, John Biggs, and Jordan Crook.
Thank you everyone who contributed to our kickstarter campaign. Every one of you made a difference in this project and our life. Our supporters are listed below in alphabetical order by first name.
A special thanks to Sebastian Leitz for being our Angel Supporter on Kickstarter.
Aaron B. Carreon, Aaron
Cavazos, Aaron M. Miller, Aaron Watt, Adam King, Adrian Bjugård, Ahmad
Azwat Bakty, Al Chalabi, Alan Alvarado, Alan Meechan, alejocastillo77,
Alex Muth, Alex Schoenbeck, Alex Wright, Alexander Weyermann, ALVIN LAM,
Alvin Lee, Amit Gupta, Anders Broedsgaard, Anders Filsøe Pedersen,
Anders Kahkonen, Andreas Hildebrand, Andrew Bootsma, Andrew W Carter,
Andrey Tomkiw, Andy Clark, Andy Rhine, Angie Kalea Ho, Anhthu Nguyen,
Anil Seeterram, Anita Symonds, Anita Symonds, Anna O.Y. Fong, Anthony
Galante, Anthony Green, Anthony Heiermann, Anthony John Abril Garcia,
Anthony Ko, Antoinette Read, antonio rodrigues, Ari Meisel, Arturs
Mednis, Ashley Perez, Ashok Daryanani, Audrey Anne Felix, Belal Breaga
Bakht, Ben Trenda, Benedikt Betz, Benjamin Anthony, Benjamin Lee
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Blake Matejowsky, Bobby Barrett, borislav popov, Brandon leszczynski,
Brenda KL Wu, Brendan Robertson, Brenden Rolley, Brett Newton, Brian
Joe, Brian McDermott, Brian Shaw, Brian Yamagata, Brian Yatsula,
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