(2019). What's the latest on sub-$100 FPGAs this decade, anything significantly better than the Mojo I picked up back in 2013 to tinker with?

Or, how about you just run the FPGA toolchain on WASM:

https://yowasp.org/

('mad propz' to Catherine/whitequark)

Outside of hello worlds, I’m always struggling to find a use case for such small boards. Any ideas?

Why do the synthesis in the cloud, and not locally?

No thanks. I remember Mbed. Web-based IDEs are fine for hello world and blinky, but you're going to want a real one very soon, and then you'll find there isn't one because they put all their effort into the shitty web-based one.

Even Arduino has a real app. It's not that hard.

Browser-based FPGA tooling is super interesting. Could really lower the barrier for hobbyists, or just make demos much more accessible.

Would a direct pitch to some HFT shops works better than kickstarter, to raise money for FPGA related work? They are ones of the main users in term of production usage. This project might be useful for them, for training / PoC / quick prototyping.

Using something like this for quick prototyping or educational demos would be super handy. Beats installing all the heavy tools.

Always wanted to dabble with FPGAs but the setup was daunting. This could finally be the low-friction entry point I needed.

Neat for quick experiments without needing local tooling. Could really lower the barrier to entry for learning FPGAs.

is this project still going or this is dead for now

My first thought: yet another web browsers standard.