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by driverdan 5007 days ago
This is extremely misleading, perhaps one of the most misleading crowdfunding projects I've seen.

They almost always use present tense which makes it seem like everything already exists. From the campaign:

"Located in New York City, Hackert0wn is an epicenter for innovation and education to advance green technology and sustainability."

NO IT'S NOT! It's an idea in 4 peoples' minds. It doesn't exist so you can't make claims about it like this.

Almost all of the photos they show are of related tech and have no bearing on this project. Do they actually have permission to use those photos? Some look like they're taken directly from product manufacturers and other copyright protected sources.

No wonder they're using indiegogo instead of Kickstarter. Kickstart would never let them get away with this.

1 comments

We've open sourced the 3d Maya file that we've been working on the past few months. We'd love to hear your feedback!

http://www.indiegogo.com/hackert0wn?c=activity&a=1498290

Thanks,

psytek

P.S. We've also split the project into phases as per the suggestions and added much more concrete details. Keep the feedback coming!