Your Kickstarter campaign is doomed

[Marc Radle]

Wow … I’m not entirely sure what this topic was originally about … but I am 100% sure it has gone wildly off that topic …

 

[Parmandur]

Wow … I’m not entirely sure what this topic was originally about … but I am 100% sure it has gone wildly off that topic …

The OP had some vagueness, which prompted vague responses, then thread drift.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The OP had some vagueness, which prompted vague responses, then thread drift.

Well, two people decided to get philosophical.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wow … I’m not entirely sure what this topic was originally about … but I am 100% sure it has gone wildly off that topic …

There was an appallingly bad Kickstarter campaign I was responding to, but since it's their first campaign, I didn't want to kick them around by naming them, but they were hitting all the classic mistakes.

In any case, in a grand irony, it turns out my dad was one of the campaign's handful of backers, so I guess I will be seeing the resulting book if it ever actually delivers (I remain skeptical on that score).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So, avoid Kickstarters with more than one of the OP's examples?

I constantly see people complaining that most of the campaigns they back fail. I've had two or so fail out of more than 60 backed. If I see any of those red flags, I don't back the project. I'm both a prolific backer and a cautious one.

 

[bedir than]

I constantly see people complaining that most of the campaigns they back fail. I've had two or so fail out of more than 60 backed. If I see any of those red flags, I don't back the project. I'm both a prolific backer and a cautious one.

I've only had a single failure -- cult of personality person who used a social movement to launch his career and abuse people.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I've only had a single failure -- cult of personality person who used a social movement to launch his career and abuse people.

That's not a failure, that is a proper transfer of power.

 

[Parmandur]

Well, two people decided to get philosophical.

Philosophy abhors a vacuum.

 

[bedir than]

That's not a failure, that is a proper transfer of power.

Proper?

He claimed he was creating a product. He took the money and disappeared

 

[Morrus]

I constantly see people complaining that most of the campaigns they back fail. I've had two or so fail out of more than 60 backed. If I see any of those red flags, I don't back the project. I'm both a prolific backer and a cautious one.

I've had very few I've backed fail. I've backed 63, and maybe 1 or 2 have not funded?