So yeah, we need money for servers, and to pay for rent / food / etc for the several months it'll take us to make this thing.
When you start doing the math, a lot of the money we're asking for disappears. 10% of what we raise goes to Kickstarter and Amazon (for payment processing). Another 30% - $35% goes to paying for the Kickstarter rewards, and then the government takes it's cut. What's left is a minority of the money.
So yeah, we need money for servers, and to pay for rent / food / etc for the several months it'll take us to make this thing.
When you start doing the math, a lot of the money we're asking for disappears. 10% of what we raise goes to Kickstarter and Amazon (for payment processing). Another 30% - $35% goes to paying for the Kickstarter rewards, and then the government takes it's cut. What's left is a minority of the money.