Update #4: Holy Cow -- We did it!
It's a Thanksgiving Miracle! Over the weekend we surpassed our funding goal, thanks to all of your ludicrously awesome support.
Over a thousand of you pre-ordered a copy of Dark Sky. The fact that you were willing to drop cold hard cash on an unfinished product (even though many of you don't even have an iOS device, or live outside the United States) is absolutely amazing. Jack put together an outtake reel from our Kickstarter video that I think properly expresses how we feel:
http://vimeo.com/jackadam/whaaaaa
But we've still got a couple days left!
We have been inundated with requests over the past month for an Android version of Dark Sky. Hundreds of people (many of them backers) have contacted us wondering when we'd bring Dark Sky to their phones. The thing is, we're iOS guys... we've never developed Android apps, and neither of us has an Android device. Our plan was to start with the iOS version and use it's success to branch out to other platforms in the future.
But here's the deal: If we can get to $45k in the next 2 1/2 days, we'll use the extra funds to bring on an Android developer to work on the Android version starting from day one. How's that?
-Adam
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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 30.
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We're two guys, Jack Turner and Adam Grossman. We work as mild-mannered web / mobile developers, operating our company (Jackadam) out of an office in beautiful downtown Troy, NY. Visit our website, at http://jackadam.net
Darn, I didn't notice the $45k thing for Android until it was too late :-(
Might I suggest that you create a new quickstarter project for this with a relatively short time window? I could promote the crap out of it on sites like reddit.com/r/android
How about an update? Looking forward to it!
Hmmm... I hope you've not abandoned the idea for an Android port. I'm a backer for iOS, but I also use Android and I would happily buy this app for that platform too. :-)