I'd believe in all these promised features if Syscoin came out with a compelling app at launch. Alias auctions are good but they certainly do not turn heads or are in big demand.
Syscoin sound like it wants to do things similar to NXT, NEM, Mastercoin, etc. -- bitcoin 2.0 stuff. Mastercoin came out with a decentralized exchange which made me notice them a lot more.
Coming out with a new coin and having TBD's everywhere on all the proposed killer features and apps will make a weak launch. But having something tangible will make you guys stand out from the competition and attract more investment imho.
Raising funds is always a challenge. MaidSafe's fund raising was successful because they had papers, videos, showed their faces, had some meat to chew on and digest in their blogs, etc.
I'd trust syscoin more if I saw more meat and a better website -- a single link back to this thread is not very convincing.