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Re:Ask HN: What do you do after a successful Kickstarter? by rasz on Friday November 29, 2019 @06:27AM (#21663692)
>That's 25% funded

Means he will stuff his own KS to pretend demand. This is a fraud and against Tos.

"Pledging to your own project is not allowed by either Kickstarter or our payments partners"

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do after a successful Kickstarter? by BolexNOLA on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:54AM (#21664708)
Ah sorry I totally misread the initial comment. I thought the critique was paying yourself.

As for stuffing your own KS...yeah, it’s not allowed. Everyone does it as an “anonymous donation” of course, it’s very common. But yeah, he’s not supposed to.

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