Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an online fundraising platform that helps individuals, teams, and businesses bring their creative projects to life.

Many people have creative projects and business ideas, but they usually lack the resources and funds to bring those ideas to life and launch their businesses. That's where Kickstarter comes in.

Kickstarter is designed to allow any creative person from 15 different project categories, including music, crafts, photography, technology, design, food, and journalism, to get direct support from others on the platform. The idea behind the Kickstarter community is simple.

You create a project page and post your project idea with the prototype or finished product specifications. Kickstarter lets you include anything on your project page, from written text to videos and images, to help you give supporters a full grasp of your project.

You also set a monetary goal and a deadline to meet it. Supporters or investors on the platform can back your project by donating within that time frame.

Kickstarter holds creators accountable to their supporters. For example, it encourages creators to be as open as possible about their projects. This can include detailing project specifications, submitting proofs, identifying potential challenges, providing updates on project progress, and responding to backer feedback.

In addition, if the project does not meet its funding goal within the set timeframe, you do not receive money, and supporters are not charged for their budget. If you're a supporter, this ensures you get the complete picture of the project you're about to fund and that you don't lose your money on a bad project.

As a creator, Kickstarter also allows you to offer incentives to people who donate above a certain amount. Incentives can come from books, digital and physical goods, and more. This allows you (the creator) to create incentives and get people to fund your projects.

Kickstarter also offers the ability to fund projects through crowdfunding, which means that instead of individual backers donating money for projects, large groups of investors come together to fund projects.

The benefit is that this reduces the amount of money each contributor has to contribute and reduces friction to make it easier for your projects to be funded.

Key features

• Get your projects funded easily
• Access a community full of creatives with unique projects
• Create incentives to raise funding
• Create videos for fundraising
• Create a monetary goal
• 15 different project categories
• Strict rules to ensure trust and success