KS has long been used as a promotional vehicle for kick-starting not so much the product development, but marketing/sales of the same. Often times it looks like

KS has long been used as a promotional vehicle for kick-starting not so much the product development, but marketing/sales of the same. Often times it looks like the developers themselves cover the final gap if the project can't achieve its set goal naturally. This way they basically go after a permission to spam supporters with project updates, asking for retweets, mentions, etc. It helps gathering free beta testing crowd. Perhaps there are also some SEO benefits too. So in this context OP's question is really quite valid. I'm guessing that no one has thought about using KS this way yet and it's definitely worth a try.