Not in that time, but in the vein of the other stories under this - I saw a group of people in a web community (comics sharing group in a small town) self-orga

Not in that time, but in the vein of the other stories under this - I saw a group of people in a web community (comics sharing group in a small town) self-organize to collectively fund a couple of them (one artist, one writer) for printing a short story that they'd done and never got payed for. Each person that contributed got a signed copy! I thought, hey, this could generalize to all sorts of stuff if there was a platform to help organize it! Mused around with it for maybe a couple of hours, became a bit disheartened by the legal aspects of it, and put it on a 'TO-DO' list. Six months later I heard the first things about Kickstarter and realized I missed the boat