Kickstarter
Every piece about Kickstarter. An American public-benefit corporation that lets users to support creative projects through its popular crowdfunding platform. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
The latest articles around Kickstarter
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Kickstarter's new budget tool helps keep projects accountable for your money
We've all seen it happen: a crowdfunding project makes a ton of money and gets rave press only to get delayed by months, years, or never ship at all. Today Kickstarter is launching a 'Project Budget' tool that hopes to minimize these occurrences by letting creators share a project's ...
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This super-slim laptop stand raised over $1 million on Kickstarter and Indiegogo
The solution to the solution is the MOFT, or, as it’s better known, the “invisible” laptop stand. Right now, you can get the MOFT and save a couple bucks at the same time with this $17 sale price from TNW Deals with limited time promo code: WEEKEND15.
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New Kickstarter gadget lets your partner know when you're horny — and no one needs that
A new Kickstarter product is confusing the meaning of consent with its problematic gadget that allows couples to tell each ...
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We made an algorithm re-write this flashlight's Kickstarter page
The DanForce G1 PRO is the world's first modular flashlight and we got an algorithm to re-write its Kickstarter page. Why? ...
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Cards Against Humanity alum launches new ISIS dating sim on Kickstarter
A Kickstarter campaign for a satirical visual novel takes the expression "Fuck ISIS" to a whole new level. The visual novel, titled The Super Patriotic Dating Simulator, stars Elodie, a beautiful American teenager who's also a CIA super spy. She's been tasked with infiltrating ...
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Someone raised over $100k to make a wooden egg on Kickstarter
A wooden egg... why didn't I think of that? Where I come from, people will willingly fork over $20 for a two-ingredient dish consisting of bread and an avocado -- which literally grow on trees around here (Southern California). So it's hard to make fun of a $13 egg handcrafted ...
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Wanna raise millions on Kickstarter? Here’s how... and it’ll only cost you $24.99
There’s a whole lot of money out there for the right ideas. Right now, you can learn how to get some of that cash behind your own big idea with this Ultimate Crowdfunding course bundle, available for only $24.99 from TNW Deals.
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Bye Kickstarter! ICOs are the new crowdfunding
I remember back in 2012 I made my first ever pledge to a project on Kickstarter, the Pebble Watch. Kickstarter had been around for about three years at the time, and was still a fairly new platform. Pebble was an amazing development at the time, predating any of today’s smartwatches ...
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Kickstarter’s most successful app campaign ever is this language learning app
Learning a foreign language can be hard, however, this new app that's been fully funded by Kickstarter might make language ...
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What one inventor learned launching a successful kickstarter campaign
Raising over half a billion dollars since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has been responsible for some of the coolest crowdfunded projects on the planet. Despite the platform’s wild success, figuring out how to crack the “Kickstarter Code” can seem like an overwhelming ...
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Crazy ex-Shark Tank guest is trying to offload 1,000 raccoon penises on Kickstarter [Updated]
When you go on TV and pitch the uber-rich to obtain financing for your stick figure cat drawing business, you've got moxie. Steve Gadlin, best known for his partnership with Mark Cuban on Shark Tank -- or perhaps the "I want to draw a cat for you" jingle -- is at it again. This ...
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ZTE's Project CSX phone gets second wind after failed Kickstarter
ZTE did something pretty cool last year when it asked users to submit ideas for a crowdsourced phone - dubbed Project CSX - eventually settling on an eye-tracking device tentatively called the Hawkeye. But after all that hullabaloo, ZTE has decided to kill it's Kickstarter campaign ...
