The thing is Kickstarter don’t give f* on their own TOS. I know I simply paraphrase here: their own TOS says, that there are no copycat products allowed. They

The thing is Kickstarter don’t give f* on their own TOS. I know I simply paraphrase here: their own TOS says, that there are no copycat products allowed. They need to have huge improvement over the original. The other day they had a featured product, which I immediately recognized as simple copycat of a typical Chinese product. I know the German FBA version. I pointed that out to Kickstarter. They told me, no it isn’t because it has a major improvement. The major improvement was that it was simply missing a feature and the imitated wood housing was a different imitated wood. TL/DR as long as it brings money in Kickstarter don’t care about their own TOS.