GoKawiilWe've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach to maintaining the project and engaging with the community.
TL;DR: We've allocated resources to maintain Flipper Zero firmware and support community contributions. From now on, community requests and contributions will be reviewed under new rules: voting for feature requests in GitHub Discussions, clearer pull request guidelines, and mandatory integration testing.
How it all started — Kickstarter 2020
When Flipper Zero launched on Kickstarter, we were overwhelmed by the community's support. That support came with a responsibility to deliver what we had promised. At the same time, we faced a wave of skepticism. We were called scammers and told the project would never ship.
A year and a half later, our entire team worked with the fear of letting our backers down and becoming another crowdfunding project remembered for taking $5 million and never delivering. We were hit by post-COVID component shortages, soaring supply chain costs, and political turmoil. On top of that, we were still dealing with thousands of accusations, insults, and threats.
We worked as hard as we could while trying to ignore the constant storm of criticism around us. But we have to admit that it was incredibly difficult. Today, we can look back and say that we made the right decisions: we planned our resources carefully, took risks, and worked really hard.
In the end, we made it through every challenge: from hardware and manufacturing to supply chains, logistics, firmware, and software development. We feel empathy for the teams behind crowdfunding projects that tried to copy Flipper Zero, but ended up shipping nothing. We could easily have been one of them, but today we can say with confidence:
We delivered on all Kickstarter promises — every backer received the Flipper Zero they paid for, even if it took much longer than anyone had expected.
— every backer received the Flipper Zero they paid for, even if it took much longer than anyone had expected. All features were implemented — everything we stated in our Kickstarter campaign works as promised. This took us years of development.
— everything we stated in our Kickstarter campaign works as promised. This took us years of development. We built a platform and infrastructure — we're proud that Flipper Zero has become a hardware platform with software tools, APIs, and an SDK that developers genuinely enjoy using. That’s exactly why there are so many community-driven projects around Flipper Zero: alternative firmware, apps, and scripts.
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