A 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

A 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.