mhoye on Nostr: If you ever wondered what happened to that TextBlade kickstarter project, the answer ...
If you ever wondered what happened to that TextBlade kickstarter project, the answer is "they succeeded in building what they set out to build, and then a patent troll cut them off from being able to ship anything, ran them out of funding runway, and now they have several shipping pallets worth of working hardware stored somewhere in California, a stack of legal bills and no way to ship the finished, working product they've built."
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