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xal on April 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kick...

Almost all the funded hardware projects end up on Shopify afterwards. Including pebble.

The "store" part is actually a tremendously complex software to do well, hardly a feature you add to an existing system.

joshuacc on April 18, 2012 [–]

I'm curious. Is this due to Shopify's reputation, or do you specifically seek out successful Kickstarter campaigns as potential customers?

xal on April 18, 2012 | [–]

It just happened. We started contacting them now but it was all word of mouth.

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