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A comment on Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initial funding?.

Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initia... by benologist on Saturday June 18, 2011 @03:42PM (#2669358)
Friends of mine raised $26 thou for expanding and porting a really cool Flash game:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296948465/no-time-to-ex...

But, I think it's more of a lottery than anything else ... if you browse down the newest projects a while there's a small chance of reaching your goal, and a pretty good chance of not getting enough or not getting anything.

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Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initia... by pagefruit on Saturday June 18, 2011 @04:33PM (#2669460)
^Typo: from the link, it's $26,000 (!), not $26.
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Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initia... by kloncks on Saturday June 18, 2011 @05:05PM (#2669543)
I was thrown off too, but on reading it again I noticed "$26 thou"
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Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initia... by aangjie on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:34AM (#2673619)
Huh. I saw the thou and just mapped it to old english 'thou'/'though' and read on, till i saw the comment..
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