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If you really want to keep building Fred, you could use something like IgnitionDeck (http://ignitiondeck.com http://ignitiondeck.com) to raise money over a long
by nhangen 13y ago
If you really want to keep building Fred, you could use something like IgnitionDeck (http://ignitiondeck.com http://ignitiondeck.com) to raise money over a longer duration.
We've had a lot of people come to us after successful and non-successful Kickstarters in order to keep the dream alive.
Edit: I get it, blatant self-promotion. Look through my history and you'll see I rarely mention my company, and when I do, it's appropriate. In this case, I'm trying to help.
- swanson 13y agoI downvoted you - it is not the self-promotion, but rather the fact that except for mentioning "Fred", this whole comment reads like an auto-generated message. For example, an ancedote about a similar open source project that failed on kickstarter and found success on IgnitionDeck would probably be better received.
- nhangen 13y agoThat's fair enough, I appreciate the feedback. Ironically, I avoided a lengthier comment because I worried it would seem fake.
- swanson 13y agoI certainly can't speak for the whole crowd but I would approach it like this: "Rachel - if you'd still like to pursue crowdfunding for open sourcing Fred, email me at nathan@ignitiondeck.com - we'd love to feature you in a new series we are doing called Kickstarter Redemptions"
- andrewljohnson 13y agoI don't see any decrease in the smarminess of your approach.
- Sayter 13y agoNathan's comment sounded like a genuine suggestion: the focus is on her to be able to utilize an alternative. With yours, the focus is on we'd "love to feature you." Sounds so much more self-serving, and also like impersonal marketing copy. Though, as with you, I cannot speak for the whole crowd.
- csomar 13y agoHey Nathan, Just add a "shameless self-plug" or "* this is my product". I guess it's important to mention that you are advertising "your" product.
- sillysaurus 13y agoWell, I'm happy you self-promoted. Ignition Deck looks really awesome, and I wouldn't have heard about it otherwise. For example, http://ignitiondeck.com/id/crowdfunding-a-video-game/ http://ignitiondeck.com/id/crowdfunding-a-video-game/ is the most valuable crowdfunding breakdown I've ever seen.
- nhangen 13y agoThanks a lot. My partner Shawn worked very hard on that one, and we put a lot of time/effort into it. Glad you found it useful.
- StavrosK 13y agoI just realized something: I want a platform for gauging interest in a project. I don't really want money, I want people to commit to paying $10 for a year's subscription to my idea X (normally costing $200 a year), so I can say "if 100 people find this interesting enough to enter their credit card details, I'm going to go ahead and build it". Is there currently something like that? A crowdfunding platform will work, I guess, but I want something with more visibility, because I'm bad at discovering and communicating with my target market. I guess this is a rather hard problem, I might try one of Kickstarter, Indiegogo or a similar platform and see if I'm successful.