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Zwaptz

16  ·  The campaign

$8,000, all or nothing

Where every dollar goes

Every line below is costed, and the arithmetic is shown rather than asserted. The two deductions come off the top, and the six lines they leave add up to the remainder exactly.

All six are development, testing and the other technical costs of building version one.

Off the top, before anything is built

Kickstarter's fee

5% of the total raised. Fixed, and charged only if the campaign funds.

$400
Payment processing

3% plus 30 cents per pledge. Shown at eighty backers — the per-pledge part moves with the number of people, not the amount.

$264
$8,000 raised−$400 Kickstarter−$264 processing$7,336 to build withWhere the $7,336 goes$4,000$1,200$986The two thingsThe AITestingComputer $600 Moving $400 Spare copy $150Six lines, drawn to scale. They add up to $7,336 exactly.
Every figure here is settled. The six lines add up to $7,336 exactly, and each segment is drawn to the width of its share.

What is left to allocate

$7,336

Every line is costed, and the arithmetic is shown rather than asserted.

What is left to allocate, after both fees.

$8,000 raised, less $400 to Kickstarter and $264 to payment processing. That is the money the lines below are drawn from, and it is the number the roadmap has to fit inside.

What it is spent on

Six lines, adding up to $7,336. Each one is a real thing that has to be paid for, and the largest by far is the work itself rather than the machine it runs on.

Building the two things still missing

Real sale prices behind every valuation, and meeting places suggested from facts about actual places. This is the work itself, and the biggest line by a long way. Group trades is already in the prototype, so the same money buys two things instead of three.

$4,000
Moving Zwaptz onto a proper computer

Everything goes across: the records, the photographs people have uploaded, the settings. The one it runs on now is sized for a demonstration. Days one to four of delivery week.

$400
The computer it runs on

The machine version one is put together on, tested on and opened on, for the build and the week it opens.

$600
A spare copy, somewhere safe

Building the spare copy, then proving it works by putting everything back from it. A backup nobody has ever restored from is a guess. This is the building of it, not renting space forever.

$150
The AI, while we build it and test it

Every valuation it runs while we are building the pricing and checking it against things whose real second-hand value we already know. This is what it costs to get the number right before anybody leans on it.

$1,200
Trying it with real people

A proper round of testing before it opens, with real people and real objects rather than us testing our own work, and the material that goes out with it. It ends when version one opens.

$986

The order they get built in, and why comparable sales comes first, is on the roadmap.

The eighty-backer figure in the processing line is an assumption, not a forecast. It changes that line and nothing else: the percentage part is the same at any number of backers, and only the thirty cents a pledge moves.