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Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by waterlesscloud » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

misener wrote: post #43

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%.

I've been suspecting their success rate might go up as more people become comfortable with the idea. A lot of small projects should be very do-able if their community is familiar with kickstarter.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by kleiba » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 2:34 AM UTC

My advice: drop the "the".

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by miahi » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 6:56 AM UTC

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #59

Woah. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/818526066/the-grassroots... Hollywood Actor Jason Biggs (from American Pie) had his $5,000 goal kickstarter campaign FAIL. F.A.I.L. And he's in Hollywood. People know him. He knows people. Wow. I guess this goes to show that success is never guarenteed. One cannot predict future success based on past success, or future failure based on past failure. It also makes me feel real…

If it's not entertaining it fails. His project is boring. Probably 99.9% of the page's visitors couldn't keep their eyes open to read it to the end.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by mwilcox » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 7:26 AM UTC

miahi wrote: post #63

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #59

Woah. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/818526066/the-grassroots... Hollywood Actor Jason Biggs (from American Pie) had his $5,000 goal kickstarter campaign FAIL. F.A.I.L. And he's in Hollywood. People know him. He knows people. Wow. I guess this goes to show that success is never guarenteed. One cannot predict future success based on past success, or future failure based on past failure. It also makes me feel real…

If it's not entertaining it fails. His project is boring. Probably 99.9% of the page's visitors couldn't keep their eyes open to read it to the end.

I watched the whole video and I'm still not sure what it's about.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by its_so_on » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 11:21 AM UTC

blhack wrote: post #35

its_so_on wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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." BLHack: Your idea is interesting, but a bit vague. Could you send a brief summary of the project? Please find enclosed $500k just in case you n…

Here's a really nice computer render of the moon. Also, we filmed this in a coffee shop and know how to use shallow depth of field to demonstrate to you that we KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING!

BLHack:

Thanks - couple of thoughts here. You demonstrate good potential to disrupt some big companies with the coffee shop video. But you need a lot more momentum, so please hold off on coffee shop work until series A.

I would also have loved to share the render with my niece's dog, who's really crazy about the moon, but I couldn't find any social buttons. This takes precedence.

I'd like to introduce you to a social media director who would be a very good fit (cc). Please set up an interview.

Thanks,

Your board.

Re: Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

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Post by MengYuanLong » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

mwilcox wrote: post #64

miahi wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's not entertaining it fails. His project is boring. Probably 99.9% of the page's visitors couldn't keep their eyes open to read it to the end.

I watched the whole video and I'm still not sure what it's about.

Seconded. His Kickstarter video and copy seemed like a stream of thought joke. Why should I give a rich Hollywood actor money when I can give a well planned and spoken individual the same funds.

Further, it seems pretty unlikely that a person ought to make a movie about how to lead a grassroots campaign if they can't even lead one for their own project.