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I don't really understand why this is a Kickstarter?

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coloneltcb 13y ago
One of the organizers here. We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets. The Kickstarter model gave us both.
- thebiglebrewski 13y ago
  Oh ok, just curious! I didn't really understand why the event would cost so much money? Wasn't the whole spirit of the homebrew club kind of antithetical to an expensive event? Are people in the club asking for money to attend? Definitely not trying to take away from what you're doing because I think it's really cool, just wondering.
  - jf 13y ago
    Most of the money that we're raising is going towards catering (it always shocks me to see how much catering costs). Some of the money will also go towards flying out original Homebrew members. The rest will go towards the costs of running the event, things like tables, chairs, a photographer, etc.
    - thebiglebrewski 13y ago
      Oh okay cool! Have fun, wish I could go!
- rsync 13y ago
  I still don't get it. I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
  - brymaster 13y ago
    It seems there's a lot of "free money" and easy attention flowing through kickstarters that I also find troubling. Especially with anything video game related that kind of comes off as just "online begging." You have companies like "River West Brands" that "acquires, redevelops, and monetizes iconic brand intellectual property" and has put out a kickstarter to remake the Colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovis...
  - sliverstorm 13y ago
    It's slowly evolving into a very very specific niche of billing not well-handled by PayPal- collecting one lump sum from a large number of customers.
kaoD 13y ago
Why wouldn't it?
- rexreed 13y ago
  Why not just sell tickets on something like Eventbrite? To say there's no way to sell tickets for an event except on Kickstarter (which is not really for events that are definitely going to happen) doesn't make sense.
AsymetricCom 13y ago
Because without economic incentives, the club would be free to do things that that are contrary to the economy, like I don't know, develop a machine capable of easily and efficiently copying and communicating data.

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One of the organizers here. We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets. The Kickstarter model gave us both.

thebiglebrewski 13y ago
Oh ok, just curious! I didn't really understand why the event would cost so much money? Wasn't the whole spirit of the homebrew club kind of antithetical to an expensive event? Are people in the club asking for money to attend? Definitely not trying to take away from what you're doing because I think it's really cool, just wondering.
- jf 13y ago
  Most of the money that we're raising is going towards catering (it always shocks me to see how much catering costs). Some of the money will also go towards flying out original Homebrew members. The rest will go towards the costs of running the event, things like tables, chairs, a photographer, etc.
  - thebiglebrewski 13y ago
    Oh okay cool! Have fun, wish I could go!
rsync 13y ago
I still don't get it. I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
- brymaster 13y ago
  It seems there's a lot of "free money" and easy attention flowing through kickstarters that I also find troubling. Especially with anything video game related that kind of comes off as just "online begging." You have companies like "River West Brands" that "acquires, redevelops, and monetizes iconic brand intellectual property" and has put out a kickstarter to remake the Colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovis...
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  It's slowly evolving into a very very specific niche of billing not well-handled by PayPal- collecting one lump sum from a large number of customers.

kaoD 13y ago

Why wouldn't it?

rexreed 13y ago
Why not just sell tickets on something like Eventbrite? To say there's no way to sell tickets for an event except on Kickstarter (which is not really for events that are definitely going to happen) doesn't make sense.

AsymetricCom 13y ago

Because without economic incentives, the club would be free to do things that that are contrary to the economy, like I don't know, develop a machine capable of easily and efficiently copying and communicating data.