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 nhangen on Sunday June 19, 2011 @01:15AM (#2670228)

My problem with Kickstarter is the approval process, which doesn't cater very well to idea people. I'm also not a fan of giving all of my SEO away to another website, especially if I'm in charge of driving traffic to my campaign.

That being said, it's hard to argue with the success of their model. My problem was that I wanted a way to self-host my own campaigns, as often as I wanted. We're building http://ignitiondeck.com to fulfill our own needs. Who knows, maybe it'll help someone else too. Still a long way to go though.

Profounder looked nice at first glance, but then I realized I had to hit up my friends and family. Last thing I want to do is MLM the people I hang out with on a daily basis.

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Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initia... by shahedkhan30 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:16AM (#2670325)

I definitely agree with nhangen. Also, I would add the process of payment. I believe Amazon Payments isn't the best way to earn payments. PayPal would work better for most people, since a lot of people use PayPal, and this would attract more people to Create their own projects.

But the most crucial thing is the approval process, they are hand approved and take days or a week to get them approved or denied, it's very slow, and very demanding since Kickstarter is getting more users attracted.

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