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Do users of Kickstarter/Patreon have a set 'budget' for supporting? Or is just spur of the moment where something you really want to support comes up and you d
by dugditches 10y ago
Do users of Kickstarter/Patreon have a set 'budget' for supporting?
Or is just spur of the moment where something you really want to support comes up and you do so?
What's the process where you back something with a 'large' amount but then a new project that needs the support more, that you feel more strongly about comes along?
- sersi 10y agoI have a budget of $150/month that I allocate to Patreon/Kickstarter. If I spend a bit more over a month because there were multiple projects that caught my fancy, I try to spend less the next few months. I mostly spend money on projects that I believe would have a lower chance of happening without kickstarter. For patreon, I mostly fund comics and webnovels. Sidenote, I dislike Patreon. They have a great idea but the interface is really awful and it hasn't improved much. I wish someone more worthy had had that idea first because with the network effect, it would be hard for a competitor to get traction.
- makomk 10y agoAfter they left everyone's personal data on a computer with a web-facing root Python shell for a week after being warned about it and it got leaked, I refuse to do business with Patreon full stop.
- Dylan16807 10y agoPatreon is a budget. It's not really comparable to kickstarter unless you're doing weird one-off juggling.
- overcast 10y agoI'd like to say there is a budget. It's mostly whatever looks interesting budget. But I DO limit myself to only board games.