Thanks for all of the interesting comments. For sure, the snake-oil merchants and perpetual motion machine inventors are still plying their trades in the internet age.
I recently backed my first kick starter campaign and as I clicked okay I wondered if I would ever see anything out of this project. Since I backed it, the project has gone up over 300% funded. However, only time will tell whether this project will ever meet my expectations.
I suspect on the balance of probabilities you did the right thing, over-funded gives the project creators an excuse to deliver late, if they are overwhelmed with orders (although they actively encourage it with their rewards 'unlocking' offerings!).
Anyway, unrelated, I thought this one was interesting, it is a head-band that records accelerometer measurements. It appears to have less functionality than the Sudden Impact design challenge entries (the Kickstarter project creators mention wireless capability but from the video it doesn't appear present in the prototype), is closed source unlike some of the Sudden Impact entries, and costs an impressive $700 for the model with wireless capability - and of course Kickstarter doesn't guarantee an end product for backers anyway.
Just goes to show that with a bit of effort it is possible to build very high quality projects based on the rich design challenge material and sometimes save perhaps $600.
I suspect on the balance of probabilities you did the right thing, over-funded gives the project creators an excuse to deliver late, if they are overwhelmed with orders (although they actively encourage it with their rewards 'unlocking' offerings!).
Anyway, unrelated, I thought this one was interesting, it is a head-band that records accelerometer measurements. It appears to have less functionality than the Sudden Impact design challenge entries (the Kickstarter project creators mention wireless capability but from the video it doesn't appear present in the prototype), is closed source unlike some of the Sudden Impact entries, and costs an impressive $700 for the model with wireless capability - and of course Kickstarter doesn't guarantee an end product for backers anyway.
Just goes to show that with a bit of effort it is possible to build very high quality projects based on the rich design challenge material and sometimes save perhaps $600.
Never thought of it like that, at sometime they do need to come out with the product or wind it up and I would agree that having loads of money slushing around will just mean they will have a tendency to just wish list a project to death sometimes delivering something as per spec is much better than guilting the lily
