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It is a CMS in itself. How is 75k high for two people? Are they supposed to commit to living below the poverty line?

It's not just for two people.according to "Why crowdfunding?"

We are asking your help because we would want to give 100% focus to xchema frontend, and it is not possible by doing our daily jobs. With your support we will be able to afford renting a working space, work full-time, hire talents, and bring frontend to your hands.

They say its "An open source Photoshop replacement for web design" in which case it would be cool to integrate something like this into existing systems. Starting yet another CMS system from scratch doesn't sound like the best idea.

In which country living with $75k is living below the poverty line exactly?

Developers have completely lost touch with what an average wage is for a single person family.

As I understand it, that's for 2 devs. Subtract the Kickstarter fees, sending out the Kickstarter rewards, and various taxes, that leaves them with maybe $20k per person. Of course, that number is meaningless by itself, not knowing how long it will take them to complete the project. If they devote more than a year to the project, depending on where they live that's not a lot of income.

It's 75K for two people.

This is 32.5K each if we pretend Kickstarter didn't take any and there were no other expenses for the business.

Living wage for a single adult with no children in San Francisco is $26,692. For two adults with a kid its $50,186. http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/0607567000

SF is an expensive city, but so are most large cities in the world.

So yes, 75K for two people would be close to the poverty line. I'm surprised they're not asking for a lot more.

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