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I feel like crowdfunding sites ought to force each campaign to have a 'maximum funding' value they have to choose. That would both force the people building wha
by mabbo 10y ago
I feel like crowdfunding sites ought to force each campaign to have a 'maximum funding' value they have to choose. That would both force the people building whatever it is they want to build to consider just how much money is too much, and also signal to those funding the project the kind of ambition the builder has.
- 013a 10y agoNearly all of Star Citizen's crowdfunding came from their own website, not Kickstarter. The Kickstarter "only" raised a few million dollars.
- pinum 10y agoA sibling comment pointed out that they did their own fundraising, but this is still a good point. The limit could be set to the highest defined stretch goal + n% to compensate for non-payers.
- ehnto 10y agoConsidering the crowdfunding platform makes its money from these kinds of runaway successes in funding, I don't suspect they have much incentive to offer such a feature.