Yeah, pretty much. It's a way to see which ideas are good, not which founders would be best to build them. Ideas probably pick founders more than founders pick

Yeah, pretty much. It's a way to see which ideas are good, not which founders would be best to build them. Ideas probably pick founders more than founders pick ideas. People have inclinations that make them best suited for only the ideas they'd be great at. Imagine 10 earnest, formidable, unknown founders in one end and 10 bad-looking, good, unknown ideas on the other end. It'd be great if they could find each other. Paying is a stronger signal than entering an email. Harvesting emails might work but it'd need some proof-of-work mechanism to vet people really are interested. What Kickstarter doesn't provide is a way for backers to show things they want built that no-one stepped up to build yet. That's a bigger set. It's all of the ideas that are left!