Here are my Kickstarter stats so far:
Media/Game/Art: 2 – All Delivered
Hardware: 3 – 1 delivered, 1 in-progress, 1 failure(No device after 23 months)
Food: 1 – delivered w/ 2 month delay
Event: 2 – Delivered/accomplished
$10 — hey, get people to donate! Yay!
$100 — you get a T=shirt! (outsource this to cafepress for very little effort)
$1000 — you get a finished widget, and a 3d-printed glass casting of some concept art, and undying gratitude. If you send me a thousands bucks, I can probably actually muster the effort to actually deliver something; there’s not the risk I’ll have to stuff my garage full of shipping containers just to be able to send out all the thank-you gifts.
Also, the gift needs to be substantially cheaper to fulfill (cafepress, etc) than what you get, or you’re really just a value-added T-shirt re-seller. If that’s what you want to do, there are better forums than Kickstarter ;-)
]]>A large number of the projects were art books or graphic novels, 2 CD’s, 1 video game & a couple of things hard to categorize (like Locus digitizing a massive collection of classic sci-fi & fantasy author’s photos, letters, manuscripts, etc.). Most cases they were from people who I already followed their work and had produced things in the past. A minority were from people I hadn’t heard of before, but I could still look them up and see what they had produced in the past. Giving your money to Kickstarter is a bit of a risk, so you should take a small amount of time to find out about those who behind these projects.
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