Comments on: Kickstarter, crowdfunding for people who make stuff.

Kickstarter, crowdfunding for people who make stuff.

waxpancake — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:33:50 -0800

Kickstarter lets creative people -- journalists, artists, musicians, game developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers -- raise money for their projects by connecting directly with their fans, who receive exclusive access and rewards in exchange for their patronage. Set a fundraising goal, deadline, and a set of rewards for backers. If the goal's reached by the deadline, then everyone's charged and backers get their goodies. If not, nobody's charged. Make stuff, without the upfront risk!

I advised this startup and sit on the board, and am very proud of the work the team's done. I'd love to know what you guys think.

Note: Anyone can sign up and back projects, but creating your own project is currently invite-only and restricted to the United States. Let me know if you want an invite!

By: grobstein

grobstein — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:36:19 -0800

This is a fantastic idea; I love the run around the collective-action problem. Good eye.

By: veggieboy

veggieboy — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:00:00 -0800

I just saw this site because a friend's blog pointed to this cookbook project. And I already loved the idea of the site. Great to see there's a MeFi connection!

By: moonmilk

moonmilk — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:14 -0800

A friend of mine just raised money for a photography trip to Iceland on kickstarter, by promising prints to her funders. So yay kickstarter!

By: divabat

divabat — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:52:33 -0800

Oh why just the US? I'd love to incorporate this for a project I'm doing!! (I'm in Australia)

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:24:36 -0800

divabat: The payments are handled through Amazon's Flexible Payment Service, which was the only cost-effective way to hold onto payment information for pledges and bill at a later date. Hopefully, they'll be adding support for international sellers soon.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:21:12 -0800

Nice, I get to fund Eric Berlin's next set of awesome crosswords!

By: sixswitch

sixswitch — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:15:15 -0800

For reference, fundable.com is available anywhere but takes 10%. Same concept.

By: divabat

divabat — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:04:10 -0800

sixswitch: apparently Fundable has had problems with them not paying up the money to the fundee afterwards?

By: sixswitch

sixswitch — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:44 -0800

Hm, hadn't seen that but a quick trawl turns up a few complaints. Never used it myself. Caveat fundraiser I guess...

By: signalnine

signalnine — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:22:19 -0800

Neat! Can I get an invite?

By: bukharin

bukharin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:29:47 -0800

Nice!
We're working on something similar at http://ministryoftheimpossible.org.

By: darth_tedious

darth_tedious — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:09:26 -0800

Great idea.

By: zincotroid

zincotroid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:44 -0800

I've been searching around the net for one of those invites. I've got a project, may I have an invite?