[MeinBlutIstBlau]

I've seen the pinephone in action and while I'd love to contribute to it, there is an immense amount of work that still needs to be done. Even the basic text editor they have for it takes a while to load up. The phone call app barely worked as well. I mean, the idea is awesome and I want it to succeed. But in order for me to put a dime up for it, phone calls have to work without question, I need a text editor of virtually any kind, a web browser that doesn't take ages to start, a calendar app that works, and the ability to simply listen to mp3's. The phone hardly has any of those features working in a remotely feasible state right now.

I really do admire the project, but it's far from ready. It needs financing I know, but I don't like funding things for a subpar experience. I certainly do have excess cash to devote to these projects, but I have no recourse that they will get at the state I want it in in a reasonable time frame.

That all being said, I can't wait until this gets better.

[ldarby]

I'm a bit confused by this attitude. You want the project to get better, and get better sooner than later.

You could donate, in the hope that donating will make it get better faster (or, depending on the amounts involved, you could get an agreement that they'll use the funds to work on the specific things you care about).

But you won't donate, because they still need orders of magnitude more funding than what you can provide? Well then you're going to be waiting longer. But then, you will donate once they're good enough, which is when they no longer need your extra funding to do the work?

Edit I think I figured it out after thinking about it further.

Let's say they're at e.g. 10% of the way to towards a usable device, and you could afford to donate enough to fund 10% progress. If you donate now, 20% usable is still useless and there's no visible difference in how long until it's 100%, but donating later when they're at 90%, if they ever get there, would "immediately" result in a useable device.