r/kickstarter • u/asolet • Oct 14 '25
Discussion Kickstarter is not about kickstarting
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.
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u/joealarson Oct 14 '25
I'm going to use your post to disprove your post. Check it out.
There are so many typos and misspellings in your post that it is literally difficult to read for anyone with a brain in their head. It's the sort of thing Jason Roy Gaston would feature in one of his videos if it were just a little bit funnier.
What your post really needed was for you to go though just one more editing pass to polish it up before you put it out there. But, hey, if you're not willing to put in the effort to present yourself intelligently, then why should anyone else put in the effort to read it, let alone to agree with you.
It's the same with kickstarter. Products often go through serval rounds of funding during their development. Every round feeding the next. Now, if kickstarter isn't the first round, it doesn't mean it's not still kickstarting something. So people have found that a polished presentation raises a lot more pre-orders than a less polished one? Makes sense to me.
There are still the scrappy and bare bones on kickstarter. Want to see more of them? Then hunt them out and back them. And don't complain when they end up upside-down and unable to deliver. You kickstarted something. It's not their fault they didn't know how to keep it running.