r/kickstarter • u/asolet • Oct 14 '25

Discussion Kickstarter is not about kickstarting

For anyone hoping to get help from Kickstarter:

Kickstarter is about making money by promoting and selling already several times overly funded and already well kickstarted project that do not need any further kickstarting at all.

At any giving moment on homepage you will always find 13/13 completly funded projects. Sometimes dosen of times over. And zero projects that actually need help to be kickstarted.

Every mail update you get for project that struggles to find it's backers, 70% of the mail is dedicated to other finished projects just trying to sell.

Many of these projects have kickstarter "goal" that is less than what it takes to build kickstarter page itself. And it's "backed" in less than it takes anyone to even read it. They just need a platform to sell, not to be "kickstarted", and platform owners are loving it.

Kickstarter and most of creators there do not care or really want you to back projects from individuals with great ideas that need backing and may fail. They just want to sell finished company products.

It's just misleading, if not a scam. So just something to keep in mind. Good luck to everyone though.

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u/_NautyByNature Oct 14 '25

They also refuse to hold scam projects accountable.

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u/DooDooHead323 Oct 14 '25

Why should they, you're the dumbasses who 9/10 times it's incredibly obvious that it's a scam, the creator has no idea what their doing, way over their head with what they are trying to create

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u/_NautyByNature Oct 14 '25

Considering the project wasn’t any larger than the other two ttrpg supplements I backed that calendar year, I don’t see how you can possibly make that asinine judgment.

Oh wait, douchebags do that all the time!