In reply to Jeffr0.

Often with these crowdfunding campaigns, the teams try to go for the hole in one with really high financial goals. I like this idea of more modest crowdfunding shepherding a project through stages ($17.5K target). At that point, Daniel could go back to his backers with a second crowdfunding effort (but on an open platform again) with the next set of goals and likely succeed.

Within a company it often works that way as well. You have a larger idea and make an investment for three or six months. At the end of the initial period, you re-evaluate and decided to invest further. Or perhaps you've accomplished the goals for that project and it only goes into maintenance. Could also happen with WP-CLI: that WP-CLI does what it's intended to do, does it well and it doesn't need further development for awhile.