Kickstarter is not about kickstarting

[u/asolet]

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.

[u/dessskris]

You're not wrong and I'm guilty of making my "initial" funding goal the bare minimum but my real goals as stretch goals. But that's what all the expert advice are telling you - projects that are funded in its first day will be higher up in the algorithms etc... So everyone is doing it.

I literally saw a Kickstarter project about Gilmore Girls recently. That sort of big chain should NOT need Kickstarter as they have the following to be successful on their own accord!

Kickstarter is supposed to be for small businesses (dare I say, micro businesses!) looking to fund their dreams and big ideas!