🚀 We just wrapped up our FNAF Kickstarter, and we couldn’t be more grateful for your amazing support! 🎉 Now, we’re super excited to reveal our next project: the Smiling Critters Pawpsicle Pin Collection! 🍭✨ Inspired by Poppy Playtime’s cutest characters, this fan-made series brings a sweet, nostalgic twist to your favorite critters. 🧸🍦 With your help, we can unlock all 8 adorable enamel pins – and we’re ready to get started! 🌟 Follow our pre-launch page here to be the first to know when we go live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vintagedoggo/smiling-critters-inspired-pawpsicle-pins 🌟 Thank you for being part of this journey. Your enthusiasm means the world to us! 💖 Let’s make this collection a reality together! #EnamelPins #Kickstarter #SmilingCritters #PoppyPlaytime #FNAF #PinCollectors

This is a true need. This family was displaced after the flooding swept their home away on September 25th in Asheville North Carolina. Her campaign isn’t gaining any traction so I am asking that anyone that can donate to please do so and to please share this. A pastor has paid for them a room until Tuesday morning and after that they will be living in their van again until they can get to Ohio.

https://gofund.me/6a8ef1b2

I have a really niche product (toys in Spanish). We’ve built a good list on pre-launch and people in our community are excited about the product. My question is…how do you phrase things so they understand that they’re pre-ordering the product but it’s also different from a pre-order because they won’t get it until 5 months later? How do you keep them from running away if they’re not used to the KS world?

I have a timeline in my page. And I have a section where I briefly explain what a pledge is (I’m phrasing it as “how to pre-order” essentially). But I still worry about walking the line between being TOO forthcoming about the wait time vs. having people disappointed that they bought it and it’s not coming for months.

Greetings loyal subjects!

Me and a buddy of mine are doing a project for class and are looking to interview some backers and people who've had their projects funded on there!

If you're interested in answering a few questions, dm me and lets see what happens!

also here's a survey if anyone would like to give us a helping hand!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q6X5YCC

I have this idea: ask backers to film an unboxing video. As a thank-you, I'd send a gift (small item <$10 value related to my project) to those whose videos I wanted to use publicly. I'd then post these unboxing videos as a project update. It would be announced only after the campaign has ended.

If this fair to everyone? Would it break any rules?

I typically have a little over 100 backers, so I don't expect I'd get a ton of videos, I might be able to send a thank-you to everyone who does one or the first 10, something like that. I might just ask for the videos without offering anything but a written thanks.

6x6 Tales is a solo fantasy game where you map, track stats, and battle in under an hour. Keep journals to record your adventures!

Go to the Kickstarter!

6x6 Tales by Jack Darwid

Hey friends, hopping on here to promote my new TTRPG, Pale Tides. It launched last week, we're already at 135% funded and starting to work through the stretch goals.

kickstarter.com/projects/paletides/pale-tides-a-game-of-folk-horror-and-witchcraft

It's a brand new RPG from me, an artist who has worked on stuff like Magic: the Gathering, D&D, Daggerheart, Silent Hill: Townfall, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2 and more. Inspired by Hunt: Showdown, Bloodborne and The VVitch.

Original system, a mix of dice and tarot, and a fresh approach to RPG systems designed to work well for people who are totally new to RPGs and veterans. There's lots more info on the KS page.

Check it out and please let me know if you have any questions! It feels so good to finally share it here.

The Pale Tides teaser featuring music by Chelsea Wolfe

We have one week left in our campaign. Curious if there are any tips to close out strong? Also anything we should do to our pages before the campaign ends? Was wondering if we should have a little thank you message up and link to our website, can this be done after the campaign ends or does everything get locked in?

Thanks in advance for the tips.

I know I can’t change my goal, but anyone have experience canceling a campaign and starting a new one? Does Kickstarter even allow that? It’s still early in my campaign, but I just feel like an idiot for setting my goal so high. Thanks!

Hey there, I noticed when I go to the "Campaign" tab in IOS, almost none of my images are showing up. I tried to copy the image types/sizes from other campaigns where I can see those images on their campaigns, but it didn't seem to work.

I see others, like Spinbrick is an example, who have images and animated gifs working, but I tried to use the same size/image types as they had and I couldn't get it to work. I also tried to resize/optimize all my images but that didn't seem to have any effect either.

Does anyone know what is the trick here?

Edit: it seems like Kickstarter support doesn't get back to you so I am really hoping to get some help here!! 🙏

I didn't launch this project myself so I don't know if it's still considered self-promotion or not. My friend Alex Dawe, who runs his own indie comic publishing NRG Comics, launched his campaign for his series Toonman: The Animated Ace. The series follows a cartoon character from the 1940s magically finding himself in the real world and becoming a superhero to fight crime, think something like Freakazoid or The Mask, and I did all the interior art for issue one. Alex launched this campaign with the goal of raising $800 for issue one, and now with only three days in the campaign, he has over $1,400 in raised funds, and I'm just proud of him and what he was able to accomplish. This only the second time I worked on a comic series that tried to fund through Kickstarter, the first one wasn't successful, but seeing this one succeed as made me optimistic on future projects.

In case anyone wants to check it out, cover art is not mine, it was done by David Velasquez

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nrgcomics/toonman-the-animated-ace-issue-1

Hey there, fellow humans.

I was wondering if anyone here has insight on this thing. I ran my 3rd campaign just now. And I have people who pledged, but the payment didn't go through. It's understandable, some people miscalculated, some happen to not have funds on that card they put in, some changed their minds, that's all well and good.

But there are also superbackers. And I mean, like 1000-4000 "backed" projects superbackers. I write "backed" because I suspect they just pledge, don't pay, and the counter of backed projects still goes up. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something. But it seems like there are people who go around, back anything and everything with no intention of paying.

Am I misreading this? Because most of my dropped pledges are these high-number superbackers. The question is: if that's the case, then what's the point? Are these backers pulling something I'm not seeing? These people haven't contacted me to pull a marketing scam, so that can't be it.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone can help me with my confusion.

I am currently preparing the shipment for my campaign and the goods are coming from china. I was quoted 6$/shipping before to the US so I charged 6$ for shipping. However, shipping with container ship takes 9 - 14 weeks.

For 8$ more it can reduce the shipping time by air to only 7-16 days (Average order value ~40$).

Is it okay to ask the backers if they want to upgrade their shipping option to faster delivery?

Hello everyone,

I have been working on a product I call the “Date Ring.” I’ve spent almost two years developing the ring, and if everything goes well, my finalized products will arrive in mid-December. I thought it would be a good idea to put my product on Kickstarter to gather feedback and potentially raise funds for my startup.

( Here is my kickstarter's link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/turkish-coffee/the-date-ring )

I decided not to spend money on marketing specifically for Kickstarter, as my marketing budget is allocated for Google, Etsy, and Amazon ads. I also plan to hire a professional e-commerce photographer to take high-quality product pictures once the ring is ready to sell.

Unfortunately, I receive 15-20 messages a day from scammers, and no one has pledged to support my product yet. There is only one backer, which is myself, because I received a message from someone who claimed he couldn’t support my project due to an issue with it. I tested the link myself and realized he was attempting to initiate a scam.

I recently started reading Reddit discussions about other Kickstarter projects, and I just signed up here to get your thoughts on the ring, Kickstarter, marketing, and anything else you might suggest.

I would genuinely appreciate hearing your feedback, as I’ve spent the last two years working hard to bring this idea to life.

Unboxing of the date ring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUcDAfjzS2s

The Date Ring in 18sec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RVNo5X3nxI

The prototype

Hey fellows, I am trying to put the coming soon page and want your intake on this. You can say anything you want about it. What I am trying to understand is if this makes any sense to people who will land on the Kickstarter page. I will take in all your negative reviews to improve. Here is what it says and the image.

LoopMotion | Proximity Keyboard & Mouse Switch for Any OS

Move the cursor and type between two computers with your favorite K/M without losing a beat! No buttons, No delays. Any OS

https://preview.redd.it/zihxfy2ygjzd1.jpg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcb21074578a8ee0276baf1cdacc6b0d60c376ea

Hi, I heard that Nov-Jan is bad time for launching a campaign. If we plan a 2-3 month pre launch campaign should it be better do it after Jan or pre launch during December is still promising?

Thank you

Why is running meta ads to the live campaign page so much more effective at converting? Launchboom also recommends the 2/3 rule.

I ran the numbers in my projection sheet and the difference between 100% into ad spend for the pre-launch vs 2/3 pre-launch and 1/3 to the live campaign is staggering. With the 1/3 to the live campaign, I basically double my results vs putting 100% into pre-launch.

Just curious as to why that is.

My wife is super interested in this charging dock and I have done tons of kickstarters before but because we've had some bad eggs that were a lot of money sometimes I wanted to see if you all know anything about this.

This is the link https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamdock/gamdock/comments

I can't find any kind of facebook profile or blog or videos and they've never backed a project or had a project before. I HAVE backed projects with new people before but they at least had some kind info/page/video to show you they existed. So I told my wife I don't have a good feeling about this, could you all tell me your opinion on it?

So, here's the gist of it.

Because i have been on and off in trading for a long time and because we have some amazing AI models at our disposal, i thought of creating an app that analyzes trading charts and gives a structured answer and actual actionable insights. For now, even if the app is built i would just like for feedback on the idea, i don't want to promote anything.

So basically the features are. Upload a trading chart, use the guard railed LLMs to interpret it and spit out important information like chart pattern, supports, resistances, and recommended actions that can be either SELL, BUY and WAIT. While SELL and BUY are identified the user is also given an entry, stop loss and a target.

Been testing this a lot and i can say that none of the previous trading models were this precise when posting ideas, this shows that the new gen LLM models can be used in trading at several levels.

Why I'm asking for feedback on an idea after i already built it? Well , it's because building it was a proof of concept for myself as well as proof that i can pull it off with a 1 man team.

Thanks for reading :)

Basically the title. I'm seeing that intermittently the images in my campaign page are not loading, my campaign video thumbnail won't display, and my video won't sometimes display. I'm also seeing that some images throughout the site are not properly displaying. I'm seeing this on multiple devices (desktop and mobile), and after clearing cache and everything. Anyone else? I'm going into the last week of my campaign, so obviously this is a concern for this to be fixed asap.

https://preview.redd.it/271ynevvjgzd1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dc285b79879f1478597636006a84efee9998237