The pebble watch is a serious underdog story. Pebble creators shopped around to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, but when they couldn’t get any backers they took their product to Kickerstarter, the social funding website. Within hours of being live on kickstarter, pebble watch had reached it’s goal of $100,000. In a few days pebble broke kickstarter’s previous record for fund raising by passing $3 million pledged. Pebble bottom-out kickstarter when it reached $10 million.
Those venture capitalists are probably kicking themselves now. They missed their chance to get in early and own part of the company.
Pebble is in production now and is planned to release in September 2012.
We have a forum set up for pebble users and hackers to discuss hardware specs, what would be the pebble killer app, or you can start a thread about modifying the pebble or hacking on it.
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