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Studying failure: What I learned from a Kickstarter project that failed… badly

• citricsquid 14y ago
  A common theme on HN is that ideas don't matter and execution is everything, but I think the author is mistaken in this case and the problem with this project was not his video or his methods of sharing, but that his idea just wasn't something anyone was interested in. Does anyone reading this blog post think "whoa, that really is a great idea I would have backed if only I had heard about it!"?
  • dewittn 14y ago
    Thats a fair assessment. I'm not saying that had I executed perfectly that it would have been a success. What I was trying to say is that had I shared it before launching then I might have gotten enough feedback to see, yea no one wants this. I think part of the challenge of creating something, wether it's a photo book or an iPhone app, is that you don't know what impact it will have until you launch.
  • TillE 14y ago
    > ideas don't matter Not quite. The point is that there are a lot of potentially good ideas, not that all ideas are good, and that execution makes the difference between success and failure. IMO, this does sound like a potentially interesting project, though the writing is pretty bad. Would I personally fund it? No. But check out the photography projects that are successful. Kickstarter's a big place with a lot of different people. http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/photography/successful?ref=more#p1 http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/photography/s...