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After the Oculus Rift.

I first heard of Kickstarter a few years ago. It was some simplistic but very cool gadget got overwhelming crowd support. I wish I could remember what it was... It seemed so easy but I have learned otherwise.

I heard about it a few years ago when I was doing research about making video games and someone posted saying something like help fund this project. That got me curious and that's how it started

I first learned about Kickstarting for a small con that was trying to raise money to be put together (They raised it) and i had a fantastic time. Ever since then I've back a bunch of projects and found it to be a great way for Artist to get work out there.

I heard about it from a New show. I was very excited to learn about it. It's a great way for a startup to keep controlling share of their company while raising funds. I love it.

If I remember correctly, I must have heard about it some two years ago, most probably on the BBC - either on Click! (a weekly tech show on BBC News), or have read about it on their page. I think it was around the time Zano got funded, and it was featured because it was based in Britain. Since I was, and still am, living in Germany, I wasn't very interested at first, because Kickstarter wasn't open to creators from Germany at that time. However, I have started work on my first project even before it opened up to Germany, so I must have got "infected" at some point... Anyway, by the time my project was finished, Kickstarter was already available in Germany, which saved me a bit of hassle.

I started to get interested in Kickstarter because of the PONO project. As someone who is very passionate about music and sound, I visited their Kickstarter page, read through it in detail, and realized that Kickstarter is indeed a really cool way to fund a creative idea that you have.

And then there was the Exploding Kittens project that took Kickstarter by storm this year. They had an amazing social media campaign and I learnt that Kickstarter is not all about how good your page is. You need to draw crowds to your page using creative ways!

I was there when kickstarter and crowd funding were at their grass roots, then product design started to use this funding channel. Being a product designer, it changed my world. So ya, I watched KS and Indie grow into what they are today. I think overall it has been good but there are still some things that need improvement. I am really excited about how crowd funding can put the power of raising capital into basically anyone's hands. I do worry about how it will affect IP though, but hey, at some point, it will have all been done anyway, we will be basing things more about the execution of the product concept, than about the actually function of the product itself. The world is changing quickly!

Jon-

I first heard about it through a comics thread and then I explored Kickstarter and discovered all these different people funding independent comics and arts projects through crowdfunding. It inspired me to start my own, which will be launching soon

Hi,

Kickstarter became really popular in Slovenia (where we're from) about two years ago. Some of Slovenian projects got funded successfully (like Lumu, Ondu, Musguard, Red Pitaya, ...). So when we came up with our idea, Kickstarter was the first thing on our mind:)

I agree with Jonathan08, that it's amazing how crowdfunding puts the power into the people's hands and it's actually an amazing test for the product and of course for the team.

We've started our first project less than 48 hours (47h to be exact;)) ago and are learning new things every second ...

All the best to everyone with live project or anyone who's planning!