For a few years now I have been backing projects on the website KickStarter. For anyone unaware of KickStarter, it is a website where mainly individuals and small businesses can go and basically pitch business ideas to the public and ask people to help fund their ideas. In return for peoples donations the businesses offer perks such as a thank you email, a copy of the finish product or exclusive extras created just for the KickStarter backers.
Ever since I found KickStarter, I've backed a good handful of campaigns, the majority being games being created by small indie studios where for offering to donate I will receive a digital copy of the games once they have been completed.
Not last summer but the summer before however I donated to a small business who were attempting to create a product which would essentially act as a personal cloud drive called Lima. You would plug in the Lima device to your modem and then plug as many hard drive as you'd like into the Lima device and then through the use of an app on your PC you'd be able to access all of the files stored centrally in those hard drives.
This product sounded like an amazing idea and very innovative hence why I decided to donate about $70 or so in order to get a copy if the final physical product.
After just over a year and a half, my Lima device this week finally arrived. Due to signing up to be a beta tester there are still a few little things that need to be tweaked but its amazing to finally get my hands on it and test it out. So much new tech to play around with, can't wait until all the little bugs are ironed out and everything is working as the creators hoped.
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