Thanks Vitaliy, I was wondering about a subcategory in this site for people here to post a campaign with details?

Like, there's a subcategory for color grading, lenses, news, showcase, marketplace... campaigns, maybe?

@Reinout

Thing is, all Kisckstarter is doing - it is attracting people to see your project page, as prooject number is growing this effect fades fast.

So, no one prevents you to make your site with simple paypal button. But you need, somehow, attract people to it.

good points. It is interesting to see how slowly the strategy is shifting from attracting audiences to attracting investors. Maybe it's a big bubble waiting to pop, but there is some logic to it; people are less and less motivated to pay for consumption, so maybe attracting them in another stage of the production could circumvent the issue of not getting money from your audience.

@arnarfjodur

Can you show me some papers that have clear consequences for creators if they can't keep up with their plans?

Like 10% fine going back to backers if they did not keep up first goal (>4 days), 30% if this happened second time (or >8days), 100% if it happened 3 times (or >3 weeks total delay), and 500% if it happened more times or dalay is more than one month.

@arnarfjodur

I have certain policy here. I restrict any linking to crowdfunding sites, unless they have clear control and consequence for creators. Btw, it can be clear advantage of your solution.

About partial fund release - also good idea, but in many situations it won't help.

Film & Video has had the largest number of projects launched -- 17,808 -- and a success rate of 40%. Music projects, which number 14,501 so far, have had a 54% success rate. Music projects have posted the greatest number of successes so far: 7,378.

The category with the highest success rate was Dance, at 69%. The one with the lowest success rate was Fashion -- just over 1 in 4 of those projects have reached their goals.

Film & Video easily wins for most money pledged total, at almost $72 million. Nearly $10 million of that was pledged to projects that failed to meet their goals and therefore canceled.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/22/business/la-fi-tn-kickstarter-stats-20120621

Why Kickstarter 'can't' and won't protect backers once a project is funded

http://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/6/27/3099051/backers-rights-what-kickstarter-funders-can-expect-when-they-pledge

Kickstarter's poor success rate shows crowdfunding risks

9 out of 10 failed projects do not even reach 30 per cent of their funding goal. Less than five per cent of projects more than double their funding goal, and being featured by Kickstarter was the biggest predictor of success - 89 per cent compared to 30 per cent without being featured.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=68325

Yes, if people knew the true failure rate, they might avoid crowdfunding.

Celebrities and stars are now onto crowd funding and raising millions in just a few hours or days....

"The more that famous people take over Kickstarter, the less room or attention or money there'll be for small, plucky filmmakers with no name recognition who try to get their projects going the only way they can, through crowdsourcing." - Amos Barshad

http://mashable.com/2013/04/29/has-kickstarter-lost-its-way/

Kickstarter response:

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/who-is-kickstarter-for

Amanda Palmer, set out to raise $100,000…. she got $1.2 million

Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving

“It would be a terrible calamity,” Henry Miller wrote in his meditation on the beautiful osmosis between giving and receiving, “for the world if we eliminated the beggar. The beggar is just as important in the scheme of things as the giver. If begging were ever eliminated God help us if there should no longer be a need to appeal to some other human being, to make him give of his riches.” And yet, we live in a culture that perpetuates the false perception of a certain power dynamic between giver and receiver, and — worse yet — stigmatizes the very act of asking as undignified.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/04/amanda-palmer-on-the-art-of-asking-ted/

The Art of Asking Why We Hate Amanda Palmer

Criticism of Amanda Palmer flies fierce and fast online. Some of it is related to her shocking ignorance of the class politics and context of her so-called crowdfunding revolution. Critics cringe, too, at her sheer volume; her acting out in public; her unapologetic attention-seeking. And again and again, they call her out for her entitlement – to attention, to a platform, to funding, to favors.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/amanda-palmer-2/

http://amyvs.weebly.com/1/post/2012/09/letter-to-amanda-palmer.html

Veronica Mars

Rob Thomas set out to raise $2million, ended up with $5.7 million

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/04/rob-thomas-interview-veronica-mars-kickstarter/

Zach Braff

set out to raise $2 million, raised $2.6 million plus $7.4 million studio, distributor funds

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1

Zach Braff Kickstarter controversy deepens after financier bolsters budget

Traditional investment takes total backing for Wish I Was Here to $10m, raising further questions about $2.6m Kickstarter funds

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/16/zach-braff-kickstarter-controversy-deepens

Braff can suck it.

I've considered doing a kickstarter for my movie idea, but it's just that - an idea with an incomplete screenplay. I'm of the mindset however that it would motivate me to get the ball rolling due to having money from other people, but I would hate to disappoint, which would be of relatively high likelihood given my personality! Also i'm mired in projects that aren't related to content creation in addition to my lowly real job.

Ultimately it's EZ money for those that make their goals, and there is not much consequence for subsequent failure either. It's a recipe for something good, and more-so for a bubble bursting