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Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by brechin »

Smudge wrote: post #19
brechin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The launch date is on the page, in a list item, like this: Launched: Jun 18, 2012

Wow, thanks. Was this always there, or did it come as part of the recent redesign? I remember searching the source of the previous project pages for anything resembling what should have been a launch date, and couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe at the time I was just delirious.

Not sure how long it's been there, but I feel like it's not a super-recent addition. I never really paid much attention to the launch dates.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by acgourley »

MicahWedemeyer wrote: post #16

I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I run a website in the tabletop RPG space, and there is an average of 1 new kickstarter per day for someone trying to fund their new game, new module, new idea, new iphone dice roller, new virtual tabletop, etc. They all point to the massive successes, but very few seem to understand that failure is a definite possibility. Thanks for putting this together and I'll definitely be t…

It seems like 75-80% of the card/board game projects are funded according to kickback.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by sequoia »

Looking thru http://www.thekickbackmachine.com/browse/all/ it appears the projects are overwhelmingly successful. In the first 163 project, just under 75% were successful. Am I interpreting this incorrectly, or are projects funded successfully an overwhelming majority of the time?

    jQuery('h2:contains("Successful")', 'div.caption').length; //successful
    jQuery('h2:contains("Unsuccessful")', 'div.caption').length; //unsuccessful

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by noinput »

brechin wrote: post #20

This site answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. It's a really great site that closely mirrors the KS design. Nice work! Things I'd like to see added: Length of campaign, also search by launch/end date Search funding goal with upper/lower constraints, not just a "close to $#" Search success by % of goal reached or $ pledged (again, with upper/lower bounds). # of backers # of updates posted An API for access…

Would love to see an option as well if the campaign included a video

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by blhack »

"Success" should be more than just getting funded, it should be following through with the project.

I could "kickstart" a trip to the moon with no engineering knowledge, and a budget of $5000, and by this metric I would be "successful". Probably within an hour if I properly attached the ideas of unseating a major tech company, and using android to do it. Also video games.

That doesn't mean I went to the moon. It means I successfully got $5000 out of people.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by ColinDabritz »

What would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be "funded and delivered on promises".

It would clearly take a lot more work to track, but I could see a Politifact promise-o-meter style 'Delivery Status' with simple indicators like 'In Progress', 'Failed', 'Partial', 'Late', and 'Delivered' or similar.

Also for the funding side, having simple counts on each category and % funded for a given filter would be very informative.

Excellent and clear presentation overall though, very useful as it stands!

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by DuoSRX »

ColinDabritz wrote: post #28

What would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be "funded and delivered on promises". It would clearly take a lot more work to track, but I could see a Politifact promise-o-meter style 'Delivery Status' with simple indicators like 'In Progress', 'Failed', 'Partial', 'Late', and 'Delivered' or similar. Also for the fu…

I replied the same thing to another post, but these stats are already available on KS. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by ColinDabritz »

DuoSRX wrote: post #29
ColinDabritz wrote: post #28

What would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be "funded and delivered on promises". It would clearly take a lot more work to track, but I could see a Politifact promise-o-meter style 'Delivery Status' with simple indicators like 'In Progress', 'Failed', 'Partial', 'Late', and 'Delivered' or similar. Also for the fu…

I replied the same thing to another post, but these stats are already available on KS. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats

For the % stats regarding funding it's nice to have Kickstarter's page, but integrating that data with rest of the information on the linked page could help inform your decision making.

For the follow-up, I didn't see anything on Kickstarter about stats.

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