Kickstarter Reviews & Product Details

What is most helpful about kickstarter is that it helps the ideas and projects of people come to reality through the funds they receive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has neglected the African community to a degree. You can not apply for funds if you are from Africa. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides an opportunity to invest early in innovative products & programs and getting value out of the goods Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of the projects gets delayed and kickstarter is usually helpless in these situations. Once the project goes through there is no way to return or get your funds back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

you can find interesting product with some new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

they promote also SCAMS and take no responsibility after Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interesting innovations and new products "for grabs", but ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I ended the first part with "but ...", because there's a HUGE "but". Because it's crowdfunding, there's a risk of you not getting anything. That shouldn't be too much of a problem, BUT: Kickstarter therefore attracts many scam "creators" that take your money and then disappear. Due to the nature and terms of Kickstarter, this means you lose your money and Kickstarter takes 5% of your money just because they are the platform for the campaign. They will not take any responsibility if a creator falls silent after the project has been funded. They just stick to some standard replies, telling you to contact the creator (HOW?) and basically tell you it's your problem.

So the platform is only a platform, not protecting the people who actually fund the platform with the 5% Kickstarter takes and lets any creator do whatever they want and run off with your money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Absolutely nothing, there is nothing to like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kickstarter arbitrarily select projects they want and change their rules for those they don't. Even when there are campaigns approved for companies that operate in exactly the same way, they invent new reasons or say they've changed their rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that when people think of crowdfunding, they often think of Kickstarter. I like using Kickstarter, since it was one of the first major crowd funding websites that became known to the main stream. So when we can present an item or project through Kickstarter, I think that we're presenting ourselves to a wide audience in a credible platform. There are many excellent features to help present our items in an engaging way, including a very easy to use text editor that allows us to add images, video and hyperlinks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost that we have to incur for transaction fees is somewhat on the high end when it comes to creative crowd funding websites. I also don't really like the amount of time it takes to approve projects. Sometimes I want to move things forward quickly and need to know what changes we need to make to projects as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Kickstarter takes time to vet its projects so that a ton of bad ones, so to speak, can be filtered out to make the visitor experience more pleasant for potential project backers. I think the feature for making a pledge is very straightforward and fun for backers to scroll through to see what incentives they get for making a pledge. To add a project to Kickstarter is relatively easy. We also have the ability to embed more dynamic media such as animated GIF images and web video, so it's not just basic images and text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the fee that Kickstarter charges along with the payment processing fees can take a significant cut from project creators. Kickstarter has tried to implement more real-time streaming features recently, which I think is a great idea, but it hasn't been something many people seem to participate in as I expected by now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Kickstarter vets its sellers so that not everyone can sell on there. If everyone could sell on there, then there would likely be a traffic jam of sellers and products that make it hard for good products to stand out and be found. About the website itself, the design is very modern and works well on both regular computers and mobile phones. The search feature makes it easy for buyers to find exactly what they're looking for. They also have search fields that allow people to pull up categories and locations of sellers and products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The approval process for new listings can sometimes take a long time. If there are issues with the listing, that could drag things on much longer. The customer support takes a very long time to get back to you and they often will give canned responses. I understand that they have many users to deal with, but I would think they would have the capability to respond more meaningfully by now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kickstarter has many worked in apparatuses that help venture makers through the undertaking accommodation procedure and offer proposals to give their tasks the most obvious opportunity at progress. The general procedure is commonly clear and just requires a charge card and financial balance to be connected. For an administration that inalienably has many trust and security issues, I think Kickstarter works superbly at staying up with the latest, educating its clients on best practices, and persistently following up on presumed extortion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It tends to be fairly hard to make your venture emerge among the few hundreds, or even thousands, of different undertakings on Kickstarter at some random minute. Likewise, the venture endorsement procedure can take quite a while and the exchange charges can be somewhat strong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to sign up for Kickstarter. There are many straightforward fields for entering information about our projects. Along with clear instructions for each field, we are given suggestions about how to maximize the effectiveness of our submission data. The Kickstarter community is generally very gracious and supportive. Kickstarter itself offers many helpful articles, tutorials and other tools like live streaming to help project creators promote and run a successful campaign. The Kickstarter website is clean and packs lots of content from many different projects. They make it easy to find particular projects with their search tools. Users can search using categories, subcategories, cities and keywords. Kickstarter also provides lots of campaign analytic tools like traffic reports and tracking links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since Kickstarter is one of the most popular crowdfunding platforms, it's rather hard to make your project stand out among the many live campaigns. They have a somewhat restrictive rule that only allows projects to be funded if their goals are reached. That can make things tricky for us sometimes since we can still make use of partial funds. Other crowdfunding platforms allow projects to be funded if their goals are not reached. It would be nice to give project creators the option for partial funding. They can perhaps leave it up to project backers if they want to fund projects that didn't reach their goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.