The Kickstarter - Day 1

On Wednesday, I put up a Kickstarter campaign for Dad's Calendar. Not just Dad's Calendar, it's actually Dad's Giant Family Organizing, Event Scheduling and Household Planning Calendar.

Ahem.

Two interesting notes so far.



First, I immediately received three personal messages through Kickstarter congratulating me on the campaign. Two were from organizations that wanted to spread word of my campaign through their networks of project sponsors. For a nominal fee.

The third was an individual who thought the Kickstarter was "interesting" and wanted to feature it on his blog. He sent a link to an online form. I messaged back asking what website he represented (there was no contact info in his profile). Haven't heard anything back yet.

Second, I have eight new Twitter followers.

Nine, technically. But Pelican Brewing was not responding to the Kickstarter. And they make GREAT beer. Try the Cascadian Dark Ale.

One of them, @AntsyLabs, has a project that they are trying to get funded of their own. The others are @FundraisingTweets, @IoanMyindiegogo, @CrowdNova, @buckatweet, @CrowfundRevolution, @MonsterFunder, and @KickstartMeFast. They want to help me "push your Kickstarter to the next level," or some such something.

Why I find this interesting is not that it happened or the speed with which these connections were made.  That is, after all, the point of the internet. I find it surprising the similarity with each of their introductions. "Get your project in front of XXX,000 Twitter users." Only two of them seem to offer services that include something more, consulting on the campaign or finding how to get started.

Also, none of them pop up when searching for "Kickstarter Tips". Actually, one of the more well written articles about organizing a campaign goes the other way, advising against sending mass messages.

So, that wave appears to be ebbing. Let's see what the next few days have in store!