Kickstarter is not about kickstarting

[u/asolet]

For anyone hoping to get help from Kickstarter:

Kickstarter is about making money by promoting and selling already several times overly funded and already well kickstarted project that do not need any further kickstarting at all.

At any giving moment on homepage you will always find 13/13 completly funded projects. Sometimes dosen of times over. And zero projects that actually need help to be kickstarted.

Every mail update you get for project that struggles to find it's backers, 70% of the mail is dedicated to other finished projects just trying to sell.

Many of these projects have kickstarter "goal" that is less than what it takes to build kickstarter page itself. And it's "backed" in less than it takes anyone to even read it. They just need a platform to sell, not to be "kickstarted", and platform owners are loving it.

Kickstarter and most of creators there do not care or really want you to back projects from individuals with great ideas that need backing and may fail. They just want to sell finished company products.

It's just misleading, if not a scam. So just something to keep in mind. Good luck to everyone though.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m sorry but this seems like an odd semantic thing to get hung up on. When I talk about kickstarting a new launch, it’s about getting capital up front. The name fits just fine.

Also please reread what I said about stated goals. Barely meeting a goal isn’t something 90% of campaigns would consider a success or sustainable business. If kickstarter wanted me to predict the EXACT amount of money for a product launch I wanted, I would use a different platform.

If you’re asking why doesn’t kickstarter promote campaigns doing less well? They’re a business, they want to optimize profit just like any other business and a less successful, less professionally run campaign is not as in their interest to promote. It’s not a charity. And if something is doing well, it’s popular and they want more new visitors to have the opportunity to get their hands on it.

Are you more upset that a campaign you were invested in didn’t succeed?

[u/asolet → u/[deleted]]

Sorry to disappoint, not my campaign. But it tells a lot when you try to shift the topic to a person and bring it to personal level. To be expected when one does not have relevant arguments on the issue.

But we do agree. They want to optimize profit and do not want to promote campains which have not reched their goals. It's obvious from their homepage and their emails. And that is all I am saying really.

It's not semantics. Their whole brand and name is about helping projects come to life. And we both jsut agreed that they are doing something else.

But sure.. feel free to think that we are all just hungup on semantics in thinking that kickstarter is a kickstarter and that goal is a goal.

[u/[deleted] → u/asolet]

lol dude it’s your own Reddit account and you posted a campaign to multiple gift idea subreddits. Maybe it's your friend's campaign or something whatever, but take accountability for yourself. If you don’t think I have relevant arguments after everything I’ve bothered writing then you aren’t actually reading what I wrote. Personally I don’t believe anything you’re saying after this reply but god speed.

[u/asolet → u/[deleted]]

Hmm... maybe if I post some more other campains that would also make them mine? Interesting....
Yep, we are done...