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Originally Posted by SenorZ
Did a similar campaign using indiegogo.com last year. They just charge you a higher % fee if you don't make your goal.
...at least thats how it was last year.
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Not on Kickstarter.
To be honest, I'm not sure how well it'll work out. It seems like the big use of Kickstarter is to launch products (like
Instacube,
Hexy, and
Pebble) or to fund interesting one-off projects.
One of my friends was the guy behind Hexy, and the thing that made it worth the 8% that Kickstarter/Amazon Payments take is the crazy amount of exposure he got to people that wanted to pay for a hexapod kit. Is a specific FRC team something that a random internet user is going to want to fund, especially if it takes $250 to get a t-shirt?
My first guess would be that there probably isn't a lot of interest outside of your community, and it's cheaper for you if the people in your community write you a check than donate through Kickstarter.
It looks like
at least one has been done successfully in the past, interested to see how it turns out!