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Some of the thousands of bottles of hot sauce sent out by Dane Wilcox for people across the country to try.

(FYMHotSauce/Dane Wilcox)

Dreams do come true, thanks to the Internet.

Nineteen days ago (~April 26), Portland resident Dane Wilcox posted to the /r/hotsauce subreddit (don't get lost now) offering to send out a bottle of his FYM Hot Sauce in return for comments and feedback on his upcoming Kickstarter campaign.

Over the next three weeks, the Reddit community answered, requesting over 2,000 bottles of hot sauce and helping to fund Wilcox's entire campaign nearly seven-fold in just 12 hours.

The enormously positive response in the thread ranged from well-wishers to Futurama and Soylent tangents, as well as people excited to wake up the next morning to see how well the Kickstarter did overnight.

On the FYM Hot Sauce page, Wilcox says he plans to use the extra funds to secure permits to put additional sauces on the market and create a downloadable recipe e-book for backers of the campaign.

TL;DR: Portland resident starting a hot sauce company offers Reddit free samples, gets his Kickstarter funded nearly seven-fold overnight. Internet happy.

-- Samantha Bakall Follow @sambakall