what are you funding on kickstarter these days?

[jordan]

here's my current list of projects:

'ethereal research laboratories'
'war toys'
'chromazoid'

i'm not affiliated with any of these projects, i just think they're all cool. anyone else patronizing anything good these days?

 

[bospress.net]

ethereal-research-laboratories

the-mexican-suitcase

 

[hoochmonkey9]

this one.

 

[esart]

By the way... Thanks for funding my project you guys! Sorry I've been pretty absent here. I was off fulfilling all those rewards and prepping 3 shows. Most of that work is done. I have one last one to deliver to Santa Ana. But I digress... Just wanted to say thanks. :)

 

[mjp]

A 3D printing pen.

Because I don't have enough stuff that's completely awesome for a few weeks then sits in a drawer for 15 years.

But seriously, I am backing that, and seriously, I do expect it will wind up in a drawer. But how can you not want to play with that?

 

[bospress.net]

Wow. Have the balls to ask for $30,000 and then raise almost a million with a month to go. jeez....

 

[mjp]

Over a million now. It's like watching a counter...it keeps going up every 30 seconds.

 

[bospress.net]

I don't imagine that they would take the money and run, but I can imagine that if they did, it would be tough to get your money back. Stealing a little money from a LOT of people seems to leave a lot of small victims. Also, they said that the factory in China is ready to make thousands. They are over 11000 now. I guess that the Chinese will have to hire extra people.

Interesting idea, but in ways a bit of a silly invention.

Bill

 

[mjp]

On the subject of take the money and run, I backed a book on there that hasn't been delivered even though it was funded on September 20.

2011.

So there's never a guarantee over there. But the other things I've backed were all delivered on time.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I never received the stuff from the last two projects I backed that were successfully funded. I'm taking a moratorium from Kickstarter.

 

[bospress.net]

I hope one wasn't mine! If so, please let me know. I try to get everything sent, but sometimes miss stuff and then there is the problem of things being lost int he mail...

You really should contact these people and ask for your stuff. They may have mailed it or think that they did.... Or they are scammers....

Bill

 

[hoochmonkey9]

no it wasn't you, Bill. if it was, I would've already given you a stern frowning!

one ended last spring and the "thank you gifts" seemed ambitious. the second one ended in November, with a December ship date. it may just be late.

"c'est la vie, c'est la guerre, c'est la pomme de terre."

 

[mjp]

Damn. What percentage of projects is that? Two out of 100 is one thing, two out of half a dozen is quite another.

Though I've only done six (four, if you're only counting people I don't know, and three if you don't count the not-yet-delivered 3D pen), so that one no-show is just about "two out of half a dozen" for me. Not a very good track record if you look at it that way.

You really should contact these people and ask for your stuff. They may have mailed it or think that they did.... Or they are scammers....l

I've contacted the non-author a few times through Kickstarter and have never received a reply.

A book can take years to write, I get that, but if she'd said that up front I wouldn't be complaining (or contributing, I suppose).

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I've only funded four projects. Two were by people I know, got my stuff. Two by people I don't know? Nada, yo.

 

[jordan]

referring to that pen as a 3D printer in any regard is ridiculous - it's like calling a pencil a "2D printer". the whole point of 3D printing is to render prototypes, not to make wobbly crap out of plastic.

anyway, they're the ones with 1.7 million dollars (as of now), so i might as well let it go. some of the design stuff on kickstarter makes my blood boil, though.

how bout $30,000 for these guys making artisanal handmade notebooks? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirthandco/mirth-and-co-notebooks

 

[Stavrogin]

I kind of want that 3d pen. You're married, jordan, so you don't have to impress the chicks. Heh. Here's one that doesn't impress me much: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120132575/charles-manson-full-length-vinyl-lp-of-unreleased

 

[mjp]

how bout $30,000 for these guys making artisanal handmade notebooks?

If you're inclined to pay for something like that ($25 for $8 worth of the same thing from somewhere else), you get what you deserve.

 

[Bruno Dante]

Not to mention $5 for a sticker and a thank you note. Bargain!
Notebooks though? Quality or otherwise it's not exactly innovation, is it?

 

[mjp]

I'm behind this one.

 

[bospress.net]

how can I NOT back that? Done....

 

[pig ear press]

Remember, it took 23 years for the Quran to be downloaded

He wants to speak to his broadband provider.

While this is a worthy cause, I think my friend's project will help bring you closer to heaven.

 

[Bukfan]

I'm behind this one.

Finally a worthy cause! :p

 

[bospress.net]

They shut it down. Too bad. I still think that the plan all along was to start it up and then pull it. Oh well...

 

[Bruno Dante]

Shame. We already have it here in the UK. It has its downsides but the curries are great.