Repost from the web: https://www.mayan-edms.com/post/first-crowdfunding-over/
Sadly, the attempt to use crowdfunding to add the zone OCR feature was not > successful. > > The original goal was to raise $720 USD to hire a frontend developer > knowledgeable in the topic, while I would work on the backend side of > things. The final result for the campaign was $330 or 46% of the goal. I’m > very grateful to the backers of the campaign: > > - Matthias Löblich > - Douglas Van Es > - Marek Stopka > - Jesaja Everling > - Matthias Sieke > - Korbinian Preisler > > Since the campaign was a fixed goal campaign, we get nothing if the goal > was not reached. The running time for the campaign was 30 days. > > What went wrong? Hard to say. The analytics showed increased traffic to > the site for the 30 days of the campaign. A quick search shows good SEO and > we even got several extra thousand visits just from the Hacker News post. > The exposure was good. Given the traffic, even with a worst case scenario > of 1% conversion rate, there should have been enough backing to reach the > funding goal. > > The growth and the amount of work the project requires mean that a source > of reliable and adequate funding needs to be created/found to keep the > project sustainable. This is not the first attempt to raise funds for the > project that has failed. > > It is not possible to continue devoting the current amount of time and > routing resources from my commercial ventures to the project. It is with a > heavy heart that I must accept that the future of the Mayan EDMS is > uncertain at the moment. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
