Hey everyone,
We need to talk about what just happened. Because to be honest, we're still processing it.
When we hit "launch" on our Kickstarter campaign in October, we had a plan, a prototype we believed in, and a whole lot of nervous energy. We'd spent over two years developing the NECCST Series 1. From that first 3D printed model on a desk in our Munich studio to a fully functional, production-ready grinder. We knew what we'd built. But we didn't know if anyone else would care.
Turns out, you did. A lot.
The Numbers
The campaign closed at 815% funded. 125 backers. Over €93,000 pledged. In a category where most people have never spent more than €200 on a grinder, 125 people looked at what we'd built and said: "I'm in."
That's not just a number. That's trust. And we don't take it lightly.
What the Campaign Taught Us
Running a Kickstarter is an intense experience. You put your work out there, unfinished, unpolished, full of ambition and rough edges, and the internet tells you what it thinks. In real time.
We got questions we hadn't anticipated. Technical deep-dives from people who clearly knew more about burr geometry than most engineers. Feature requests that made us rethink things. And a few messages that simply said: "Finally. Someone is building this."
The campaign also connected us with communities we deeply respect: Reddit's r/espresso, the Home-Barista Forum, specialty coffee circles around the world. Fynn personally introduced the project in several of these spaces, answering questions, explaining design decisions, and, most importantly, listening.
From Studio Project to Real Product
Here's what changed after Kickstarter: everything. Before the campaign, NECCST was a design project inside Eckstein Design. A father-son idea that we were passionate about but that existed mostly in our workshop and on our screens. After the campaign, it became a company. We founded NECCST GmbH in October 2024, the same month the campaign went live. It felt right. The backers had made the decision for us.
With the funding secured, we were able to commit fully to production-grade tooling, finalize our supplier partnerships, and make a critical upgrade we'd been considering for a while: moving from 47mm to 63mm titanium-nitride-coated conical burrs. Bigger burrs, better grind quality, less heat, more consistency. It was the right call, and the Kickstarter funding gave us the confidence to make it.
What's Next
Now the real work begins. We're deep into production planning: finalizing manufacturing partners, locking in tolerances, preparing for serial production. We'll be sharing detailed updates with our backers every few weeks, and we'll keep posting here on the Journal too.
To everyone who backed us: you didn't just pre-order a grinder. You made it possible for two designers in Munich to turn an obsession into a product. We won't forget that.
More soon.
Fynn & Stefan
