GameByts·the debrief
A missed raise cost you $15 and nothing else — every backer claimed their money back, and this page is the honest read of what the numbers were telling you.
23%
of goal reached
13
backers committed
2/9
disclosed at close
7d
window
$57.9k committed against a $250k goal
Some strangers wired money — that is not nothing on a permissionless page. The gap between them and the goal is usually disclosure: the checks below are what backers looked for and did not find.
median commit $220 · top backer 52% · first quarter of the window 100% · last quarter 0%
Most of the money arrived in the opening quarter and then the room went quiet — the pitch converted its first audience and never found a second one. That's a distribution problem, not a page problem: line up where day three's backers come from before you relaunch.
One wallet carried 52% of the demand — a believer, not a crowd. Whatever convinced them is your strongest material; the relaunch's job is making that argument legible to strangers.
The funded raises share three things: a working demo, a budget that reads like a real plan, and a founder who writes their own risk case. What actually makes raises fund →
Your next raise page links back to this one — backers read the lineage as honesty, not failure. The wizard keeps your coach notes, and every check you add above is a visible point on the new page.