I think of kickstarter as a tool for putting my money where my mouth is. BTW, in my experience KS works really well. Of course I use to only back people with e

I think of kickstarter as a tool for putting my money where my mouth is. BTW, in my experience KS works really well. Of course I use to only back people with experience making what they want to do, people that have prototypes already designed and functional that only needs to sell a mass produced version. As they say: "real artist ship", so the first thing people do is look for proofs that a maker is really a maker and not a snake oil salesman.