I think every ICO should have some kind of counter to show how the project is doing.

Currently it's only the pre-sale. I am pretty sure that they will implement such a counter for their main-ICO.

That's why Sphere needs to make it super intuitive!

Softcap already reached and 14% of token's total sold. What do you think? It has the potential to reach the hardcap ($40M) ?

I think it is not one you are interested in the situation with the current donations!

With facebook there is a solution which is powerfull and many years time for development. The $40M hardcap does makes sense for me. At least the developers foor the platform and frontends, the complete plan how to get profit out of the solution and to get sponsors is hard and the risk ist very high for the invesment.
A small start is not possible. It have to be an alternative to an complex solution facebook.

Seriously, it's there right on the ann topic, i don't even want to paste a quote from it for you because i don't think you want to read that either if you didn't even read the ann.

You are right that's important for investors to see how much hype a project has. I would also recommend them to do this.

ofc it has, otherwise, why are we here and like to talk about our beloved sphere project ?