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if Kickstarter pivots (purposefully or not) to support brand name / BigCo projects, that'll just open up a market for someone else to come in as Kickstarter Cla
by troygoode 13y ago
if Kickstarter pivots (purposefully or not) to support brand name / BigCo projects, that'll just open up a market for someone else to come in as Kickstarter Classic.
- andkon 13y agoWhy? They may grow their customer base by bringing on bigger projects, but how would that alienate the customers who are already using it?
- guizzy 13y agoBecause Kickstarter is also a platform for discovery. If large corporate projects, which can certainly be funded otherwise, start crowding the site, this means that the smaller projects that can really benefit from Kickstarter for funding might not get the attention they deserve.
- rubinelli 13y agoIt happened with eBay: established sellers crowded out smaller and casual sellers in all but the most niche categories. This may not happen in Kickstarter, where the projects aren't fungible, but the precedent exists. These are still early days; big projects are still bringing in fresh backers, and the small projects are benefiting from this traffic. What Kickstarter will look like in ten years is impossible to predict right now.
- illuminate 13y agoeBay pissed off their customers by prioritizing large ecommerce operations over independent sellers.
- Apocryphon 13y agoIndieGoGo and other alternatives to Kickstarter do exist.