Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders (or: Why we pivoted)

Re:Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders (or: Why we pivoted) by NoPiece on Friday March 15, 2013 @07:02PM (#5383531)

Are you sure you are solving an actual problem? I've backed a dozen projects, and never gone to to the kickstarter.com home page looking for a project.

I'm not sure many people spend time browsing for things to back. People just hear about interesting projects via HN, twitter, reddit, facebook, etc., and then transact via Kickstarter.

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Re:Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders (or: Why we pivoted) by lanthe on Friday March 15, 2013 @07:20PM (#5383602)

Creators tell us that around 30% of their traffic comes organically from Kickstarter. There are some people browsing on Kickstarter -- but it's not really set up to help them browse. We just want to make it easier :)

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Re:Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders (or: Why we pivoted) by dkoston on Saturday March 16, 2013 @12:21AM (#5384431)

So, in essence, the problem is that KickStarter is noisy at scale and you're essentially selling a filter. Maybe the title of the post should have been "KickStarter Sucks, Long Live KickStarter"

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