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Fundable had much bigger problems than a bad front page design. Kickstarter has been doing alright, but this is the first time they've really made a big public
by jfager 16y ago
Fundable had much bigger problems than a bad front page design. Kickstarter has been doing alright, but this is the first time they've really made a big public splash, and it's pretty clear that Facebook and Diaspora are driving that attention. This post seems like a weird post-hoc explanation that's ignoring the obvious.
- vv 16y agoKickstarter's had a very impressive rise prior to Diaspora. They had over a quarter million UVs in March according to compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kickstarter.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kickstarter.com/), up 100% over the prior month. With a quick look at the site to can see lots of ~$10k project are getting funded all the time. That's revolutionary. In my original post, I acknowledged Fundable had bigger problems: Now it’s important not to overlook all the other things that might have caused one business to succeed where another failed. If you google “Fundable” you’ll see they made a number of execution missteps. Fundable also didn’t have the advantage of launching in a time when high quality video creation is so easy and sharing is so powerful over platforms such as Twitter and, well, Facebook. Nevertheless, it’s great to see a venture that’s executed well and in Kickstarter’s case its competency certainly extends to its design.