Very interesting they were funded partially from Kickstarter! 292 backers at 10k€. I assumed you needed quite the following for Kickstarter to work...
And it looks like they do. 49k followers on Facebook and 16k on Instagram. Not sure how far back these go, but looks like very "shareable" content, where they would take I translatable words and make little funny pictures or memes or other intriguing things and post them. Lots of interaction comments/reaction-wise
Timeline-wise this was backed on Kickstarter in 2020. Site launched in summer 2020. The creator was very active on Kickstarter working on communicating and updating the community with what was going on (until the end there).
Sounds more like the community of people in this interest group/hobby had an interest and she was just stewarding their desires. And her and the communities values ended up aligning. Like a contractor/contractee relationship
My first sentence was legitimate, she’s convinced people to invest in her idea - as you say - and I’m impressed. Perhaps we disagree on where the investment has gone, but hey ho. If you think the site as it stands represents €10k of value then we disagree on that too.
The second sentence was somewhat tongue in cheek (and I’m not a fan of KS in general, been bitten too many times). Well done on jumping straight to name calling/insults though, great way to hold yourself during public discourse.
Thank you so much for this overview - I had no idea I was featured on awesome-linguistics!
I actually had a bit of a following on some language-themed meme pages and used that to launch this project on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter was partially to gain some funds (although after rewards, shipping, and taxes it really wasn't a great amount) and partially to see if people were interested in the idea at all, and it turns out they were.
And it looks like they do. 49k followers on Facebook and 16k on Instagram. Not sure how far back these go, but looks like very "shareable" content, where they would take I translatable words and make little funny pictures or memes or other intriguing things and post them. Lots of interaction comments/reaction-wise
Timeline-wise this was backed on Kickstarter in 2020. Site launched in summer 2020. The creator was very active on Kickstarter working on communicating and updating the community with what was going on (until the end there).
Also seems to have a Patreon, and worked itself into other places like https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/awesome-linguistic...