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This was a Kickstarter a year ago (i baked too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/sicp-distill...

Unfortunately the author still not be able to fullfill the goals :/ So, bookmark this and visit it in a year or two again.

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I am with you, and also a backer. The original goal was exceeded by a wide margin (£12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal). 12K GBP is a non-trivial amount of money. There are no videos (if you exclude a low quality recording of a talk on the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk), no screencasts and the text only covers a few of the topics outlined in the campaign.

Either of you please email me with your backer number and I can refund you or turn what you paid into a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières if you are not happy.

I am very pleased with what is there so far, think it genuinely captures all the best bits in an accessible way. I am most proud of the Escher and Evaluator bits and associated projects.

I have lots more partially complete, feel I have a fair bit of momentum now and do still intend to make videos as I said in the update to backers, backers will see them first. I am genuinely sorry it has taken so long to get this out.

I think I was quite fair minded re: pricing etc during the kickstarter. I changed it from a sliding scale to allowing unlimited people taking the lowest amount (£20), then created a 'pay what you can' tier and invited people to switch to it if they wished.

Best wishes, Tom

It seems like a communication problem. If you're still going forward but don't push sub-par content out in the public due to pressure, this is acceptable; but if people don't know (I can't read the KS status updates, but there's not many of them) they'll be angry just because of that.

I think you are off to a great start, and appreciate the effort.

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