Yesterday I did something I rarely do: I shared a YouTube video. I watched the CBS trailer for the fall show Supergirl last week, and I really liked it. It made me happy. But I didn’t share it. Rather, it wasn’t until I read that it had accumulated over 10 million views in 1 week–more […]
A few months ago I noticed an interesting conversation on the Kickstarter Best Practices Facebook group about two projects that shared the same name. One of the creators happened to be a frequent commenter on this blog and on Twitter, so I reached out to Artem to see if he could write about the experience […]
Over the last few years, I’ve been really impressed by Kickstarter’s evolution as a crowdfunding platform. Their changes have been slow and deliberate, but almost every change brings a significant improvement to the previous version. Almost exactly 2 years ago, I wrote a post about Kickstarter’s limitations. Several of the ideas I mentioned have since […]
Ryan has been a reader and active commenter on this blog for a long time now. He’s run a number of successful Kickstarter projects, but his first big one, a tabletop game called Shadowstar Corsairs, unfortunately did not reach its funding goal (despite raising over $30,000) However, Ryan recently relaunched the project, and I’m happy […]
I love sorting through the wealth of data following a Kickstarter project. As I do after each of my campaigns, I’m going to share that data with you today. This entry is about my recent treasure chest project. The intent of these posts is to give other project creators a more detailed, behind-the-scenes look at our […]
Since its inception, Kickstarter has made it a bit difficult to find out exactly where backers come from. Each project dashboard provides some referral data, but its often convoluted. This is still a bit of an issue, but last week Kickstarter announced a big step in the right direction: Creators can now link their project page […]
[Update 2023: Prefundia is no longer in operation.] Prefundia is a web app that helps creators to build a crowd before the crowdfunding campaign and then announce the launch of the project. It’s free and easy to set up, and I think it’s a service with good intentions. But I wouldn’t recommend using it. I had […]
In less than 12 hours, Kickstarter will automatically send out a notification to anyone who selected the “Remind Me” button during the campaign (and hasn’t already pledged) for my treasure chest project. So today I thought I’d discuss what backers look for when returning to a project. This is highly subjective, as I’ll be speaking from […]
A few weeks ago I got into a lively debate on the Kickstarter Best Practices Facebook group. There were a few creators in the discussion who contact backers after they cancel their pledges to learn more about the cancellation. I, on the other hand, don’t like the idea at all. Cementing my opinion on this […]
A few weeks ago (coincidentally as I was preparing for the launch of my new treasure chest Kickstarter project), I wrote KS lesson about an intriguing achievement system I had seen on some recent projects. The system seemed like a good fit to test out on my new project, so I gave it a try. […]
