KickStarter!

[Gray Adams]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

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!

Kickstarter is an investment site with no real return on the investment. It's just your chance to help bring something to market/life. There's never even a guarantee you'll get anything from your investment, and at best you get a product, not some kind of ownership in the company or anything.

If someone isn't prepared to put money down with no expectation of getting anything back, Kickstarter is not a great place for them.