Yes usually hit the soft cap ensure enough fund to start developing the project. I think REPU will have no problem to raise enough money and develop the project. Im impatient to see all the application of reputation management.
Hitting the soft cap is always enough for developing projects. This is the definition of the soft cap
yes the only different is when they hitting more then the soft cap, there can hire more coder and can more developing

sure the two things are connected reached the soft cap means that the project can go on, but if they collect even more funds means that the development team can be expanded and the project can be improved even more...