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Thank you for your reference. It tells the real tactics about how to win the trust from people and how to put influence on others. But the same tactics may gene

by dclara 13y ago

Thank you for your reference. It tells the real tactics about how to win the trust from people and how to put influence on others. But the same tactics may generate different results from person to person. The same for every Kickstarter project. We all like to be positive, consistent and with integrity. We show our expertise and authority, be friendly. Unfortunately, things turn out to be not working that well. Maybe you guys can help me a little bit on how to improve my Kickstarter project: http://kck.st/JNqv8z http://kck.st/JNqv8z

thirdtruck 13y ago
I just launched a successful Kickstarter campaign back in November, so I'll share what feedback that I can: * The copy focuses too much on the product features, rather than on how you, the backer, will improve as a person for using it. * The video sounds and feels too corporate. Many Kickstarter backers seem to seek out interesting people as much if not more so than interesting projects. I only watched more than 10 seconds of it for the sake of offering feedback. * This particular input will hurt to read: the example website's just plain ugly as sin. All those buttons and fields contradict the "one place" promise central to the whole offering, too. * The service tries to do too do much, straining my imagination rather than exciting it. * Online services seem to have hard a hard time of it on Kickstarter. Services as a deliverable are also hard to picture (in contrast to the concrete images of books, gourmet chocolate, etc.). * Millions of dollars couldn't fix web portals for Yahoo and other corporate giants. The offering is a 1990s-style web portal, as far as I can tell. My actionable advice: * Start with something much smaller, ideally something you could complete or attempt out of your own pocket. A single-purpose, single-platform app, for example. * Tim Ferris blogged about running a Kickstarter campaign. Treat that as your bible (scaling your efforts accordingly). I'm including the advice to hire a virtual assistant in this. You will have no free time for mundane tasks while running the Kickstarter. * Shut down the current Kickstarter. Kicktraq will confirm that it has no chance of succeeding. Keeping the "sunk cost" fallacy in mind, better to devote your time and limited mental energy to starting again. * Keep trying. I might have succeeded on my own first Kickstarter, but with years of creative effort and outreach preceding that. Good luck!
- dclara 13y ago
  Thank you so much for your advice. I love to hear feedback from people, especially from online and Kickstarter project. I'm sorry that I just found your comment today. I've talked to various kinds of people in real life. It takes about 5-min for them to understand the benefit since it's a brand new Web 3.0 solution. Most of them are convinced and very impressed. They don't need to lie because we didn't know each other before. I accept some of your comments, but I cannot agree on your conclusion, which is: it's doomed to fail, don't continue. I guess part of the reason is that you haven't seen the entire video which is about 75 seconds long. Even the first question may make sense if you are the people who are looking for more efficient way to find things online. Some people blamed me: why do you even need to ask? Of course everybody wants. I agree that the BingoBo.com website UI is not fully implemented using the HTML5/CSS3 since I don't have time and resource to do so. The Kickstarter image is boring, but it really show you a pair of public/private views. It means a lot to you. I saw another online calendar project was next to mine looking exactly the same as mine. I know there are two reasons for sure that it's going to fail on Kickstarter, just like one of the project I've backed: lacking of traffic and not being a widget or gadget. I've got hardware product to show, but that's not going to be exciting in most backers' eyes either because those are the applications which will fundamentally change how people's daily life, which they are not quite familiar with. Before I launched the project, I never expect to have it successful in the first round. My purpose is to have a place for me to explain to people and get the message across. I provided sufficient reasons and evidences to show that it's going to be an important application. If you watch all the videos, you will understand it better. With all that said, I know that no matter how many reasons I have, if I cannot make people happy to accept in the first place, it's my fault. But that does not equal to: it's not valuable. Look here, another thread when I discussed the similar issues other people raised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086320 As you can see, he cannot reject my solution which really can resolve the fair common problem he raised. What he cannot accept is my solution is not an open solution. I put all three benefit clearly on the top because I need to meet various kinds of people's needs. I do have backers who I never knew before, they do believe in my vision and the solution. And I have a few bets testers who really come back to test and try again and again. It does help people in the long run. Are you sure you don't need a Private Web of your own if you can create it by a few clicks? It's a matter of time and efficient way to articulate and convey the idea. I agree that Kickstarter project eats me so much time, not only on the information I provided along with my blogs, but also I have to acquire viewers organically from HN and Raddit. It's too time consuming. However, I'm not going to change my direction and I have no idea or intention to create small apps. Those small, cute products everybody loves in the Shark Tank usually have very short product life on the market, just like the apps on the smartphone. See the following blog from the successful company which raised $23M recently. This first point is to have a large vision. And I'll stick to it. It may take longer time to reach the goal. http://insideintercom.io/silicon-valley-outsider-raised-30m-30-months/ http://insideintercom.io/silicon-valley-outsider-raised-30m-... From action point of view, I've been using virtual assistance to record the voice over. Some people told me that the voice makes people additive to listen. Not many VAs are able to understand this project either. Even if yes, it will cost me a fortune to let him drive the project through. Last point is: it's not a web portal. I'll explain what the difference is from Yahoo directory in my future blog post. The Kickstart project is served as my bible where you can find all the important information and frequently asked questions and debates in the daily updates with links to my blogs. Anyway, your comments are precious to me. I hope that you will have time to get more information from the project, and I'll be happy to discuss with you via email.

by dclara 13y ago

thirdtruck 13y ago

I just launched a successful Kickstarter campaign back in November, so I'll share what feedback that I can: * The copy focuses too much on the product features, rather than on how you, the backer, will improve as a person for using it. * The video sounds and feels too corporate. Many Kickstarter backers seem to seek out interesting people as much if not more so than interesting projects. I only watched more than 10 seconds of it for the sake of offering feedback. * This particular input will hurt to read: the example website's just plain ugly as sin. All those buttons and fields contradict the "one place" promise central to the whole offering, too. * The service tries to do too do much, straining my imagination rather than exciting it. * Online services seem to have hard a hard time of it on Kickstarter. Services as a deliverable are also hard to picture (in contrast to the concrete images of books, gourmet chocolate, etc.). * Millions of dollars couldn't fix web portals for Yahoo and other corporate giants. The offering is a 1990s-style web portal, as far as I can tell. My actionable advice: * Start with something much smaller, ideally something you could complete or attempt out of your own pocket. A single-purpose, single-platform app, for example. * Tim Ferris blogged about running a Kickstarter campaign. Treat that as your bible (scaling your efforts accordingly). I'm including the advice to hire a virtual assistant in this. You will have no free time for mundane tasks while running the Kickstarter. * Shut down the current Kickstarter. Kicktraq will confirm that it has no chance of succeeding. Keeping the "sunk cost" fallacy in mind, better to devote your time and limited mental energy to starting again. * Keep trying. I might have succeeded on my own first Kickstarter, but with years of creative effort and outreach preceding that. Good luck!

dclara 13y ago
Thank you so much for your advice. I love to hear feedback from people, especially from online and Kickstarter project. I'm sorry that I just found your comment today. I've talked to various kinds of people in real life. It takes about 5-min for them to understand the benefit since it's a brand new Web 3.0 solution. Most of them are convinced and very impressed. They don't need to lie because we didn't know each other before. I accept some of your comments, but I cannot agree on your conclusion, which is: it's doomed to fail, don't continue. I guess part of the reason is that you haven't seen the entire video which is about 75 seconds long. Even the first question may make sense if you are the people who are looking for more efficient way to find things online. Some people blamed me: why do you even need to ask? Of course everybody wants. I agree that the BingoBo.com website UI is not fully implemented using the HTML5/CSS3 since I don't have time and resource to do so. The Kickstarter image is boring, but it really show you a pair of public/private views. It means a lot to you. I saw another online calendar project was next to mine looking exactly the same as mine. I know there are two reasons for sure that it's going to fail on Kickstarter, just like one of the project I've backed: lacking of traffic and not being a widget or gadget. I've got hardware product to show, but that's not going to be exciting in most backers' eyes either because those are the applications which will fundamentally change how people's daily life, which they are not quite familiar with. Before I launched the project, I never expect to have it successful in the first round. My purpose is to have a place for me to explain to people and get the message across. I provided sufficient reasons and evidences to show that it's going to be an important application. If you watch all the videos, you will understand it better. With all that said, I know that no matter how many reasons I have, if I cannot make people happy to accept in the first place, it's my fault. But that does not equal to: it's not valuable. Look here, another thread when I discussed the similar issues other people raised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086320 As you can see, he cannot reject my solution which really can resolve the fair common problem he raised. What he cannot accept is my solution is not an open solution. I put all three benefit clearly on the top because I need to meet various kinds of people's needs. I do have backers who I never knew before, they do believe in my vision and the solution. And I have a few bets testers who really come back to test and try again and again. It does help people in the long run. Are you sure you don't need a Private Web of your own if you can create it by a few clicks? It's a matter of time and efficient way to articulate and convey the idea. I agree that Kickstarter project eats me so much time, not only on the information I provided along with my blogs, but also I have to acquire viewers organically from HN and Raddit. It's too time consuming. However, I'm not going to change my direction and I have no idea or intention to create small apps. Those small, cute products everybody loves in the Shark Tank usually have very short product life on the market, just like the apps on the smartphone. See the following blog from the successful company which raised $23M recently. This first point is to have a large vision. And I'll stick to it. It may take longer time to reach the goal. http://insideintercom.io/silicon-valley-outsider-raised-30m-30-months/ http://insideintercom.io/silicon-valley-outsider-raised-30m-... From action point of view, I've been using virtual assistance to record the voice over. Some people told me that the voice makes people additive to listen. Not many VAs are able to understand this project either. Even if yes, it will cost me a fortune to let him drive the project through. Last point is: it's not a web portal. I'll explain what the difference is from Yahoo directory in my future blog post. The Kickstart project is served as my bible where you can find all the important information and frequently asked questions and debates in the daily updates with links to my blogs. Anyway, your comments are precious to me. I hope that you will have time to get more information from the project, and I'll be happy to discuss with you via email.