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Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by misener »

sequoia wrote: post #24

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; //uns…

According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of ~44%. Successes seem to be increasing.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by misener »

acgourley wrote: post #23

That is a shockingly high success rate. It seems like 75% when I would have guessed 20%

It's an incomplete list. TKBM has only been tracking projects that ended since mid-June 2012.

According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of ~44%.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by misener »

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

Indeed, the aggregate numbers are there, but it's extremely difficult to find individual examples of success/failure by category or goal. That's the point of TKBM.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by thehodge »

misener wrote: post #12
z2600 wrote: post #11

Great resource. Would it be possible to have search functionality?

Search is on the roadmap, for sure. That said, Kickstarter's existing search function performs very well. The primary purpose of TKBM is to collect Kickstarter projects together by outcome (success/failure) and goal -- two things that Kickstarter's site doesn't make easy.

Am I the only one who finds kickstarter search so frustrating? all I want to find is all the technology products orders by recently added.. am I missing something blatant

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by iblaine »

Seems like unsuccessful projects get burried. Cancelled ones are quietly swept away. Case in point is glospex. One day the project was there, the next day it was not. No word...maybe kickstarter is too tiny to have a customer service department...maybe they want the unsuccessful projects to remain unseen.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by fudged71 »

danso wrote: post #47

Very cool...what I would like to see is duration of fundraising, if you were able to collect this? What I mean is to have that in the current view...seems more useful than how many days ago it ended?

That would be really interesting. I'd like to see specific categories that are more successful now than they previously were, for example. Or correlate that success of specific projects based on how long ago they were.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by misener »

fudged71 wrote: post #49
danso wrote: post #47

Very cool...what I would like to see is duration of fundraising, if you were able to collect this? What I mean is to have that in the current view...seems more useful than how many days ago it ended?

That would be really interesting. I'd like to see specific categories that are more successful now than they previously were, for example. Or correlate that success of specific projects based on how long ago they were.

As requested: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1ecu_DI...

The KickBack Machine dumps lots of data into this Fusion Table on an ongoing basis. Please feel free to slice and dice it however you like.

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