Thread: Change in Organization, for a better project
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2014-05-22 , 08:58
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#83
Originally Posted by klinglerware View Post
I am glad that you are not considering Kickstarter. Based on the iControlPad 2 fiasco (do a search for "icp2 kickstarter" for the background), I can only conclude 3 things:

1. Kickstarter and Amazon Payments skim a lot off the top
2. Kickstarter is risky for developers, since their TOS requires that the end result is tangible product returned to the backers (or full refunds, presumably)
3. Kickstarter is risky for backers, since Kickstarter doesn't appear to enforce their TOS as mentioned above

Kickstarter is good for a lot of things, but electronic hardware development and production is probably not one of them.
I would add:

4. Kickstarter requires the campaign to be a greyhound-race by defining a definitive deadline. After the deadline you can't participate any more.

We prefer to allow for continuous backing as long as we have not made final decisions about production batches. This is simply a different philosophy (convince users by facts and not by urgency to buy) which better matches a project that started some months ago.
 

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