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Glyphish icons for Retina now on Kickstarter
- hopeless 16y agoLooks like he's already reached his goal?
- kmfrk 16y agoA lot of people use Kickstarter as a shop rather than a place for receiving donations - see many of the (comic) book projects for reference. While $2000 doesn't seem like a guaranteed success, the donation rewards seem to reflect that the creator expected it to do so. The $2000 is probably a minimum rather than a goal, which the figure usually reflects on Kickstarter; making a profit on a project is not something you usually associate with Kickstarter. Kickstarter only takes 5% of the donations, so it's a perfect digital platform - and physical if you can handle production and logistics yourself. I submitted it as an equal service to HN users and Joseph Wain. As aforementioned, Kickstarter projects can be a lot of things.
- icey 16y agoThis is a pretty cool use for Kickstarter. The author gets paid, people who pitched in get something extra, and everyone else gets to benefit from the author's work. I like it.
- phreeza 16y agoI'm amazed by the amount of money people are raising on Kickstarter. Seems pretty awesome.
- kmfrk 16y agoIt's a lot of money, but Glyphish is not exactly unknown - particularly now when app phone development is so popular - and he's been hyping the Kickstarter project for a while. I think he would have raised a lot more if he did a better job at getting the word out, but guess he's doing well with what he's done already.
- kimfuh 16y agoWhen will kickstarter let non-US projects in?
- jws 16y agoHe got me with the little script "i" in a circle in the upcoming simple icons. Just the thing for iPhone web apps.