Use Kickstarter to fund Amiga projects

[amiman99]

Hi, recently I contributed some money to fund Amiga documentary on Kickstarter.com I hope many of you did that too.
It came to me that the site can be used to fund other Amiga projects, like games, apps, drivers, and maybe hardware.
For small donation or larger, users can pitch in money to fund a project, when the project is completed whole community can benefit. There are different levels of support that can be created, the ones who contribute the most may get the item for "Free", lower amounts can get a discount, and the ones who did not contribute get to pay the full amount. Everyone wins.

The projects can be pitched in the forums, and then agreed upon it. We can setup voting system

Check out Kickstarter.com for more details.



Are there any Amiga projects that anyone wanted to start but needed some capital investment, small or large?

[Cammy]

I wish some Amiga projects could be funded by Kickstarter, I'm sure they'd be a lot more worthy than some of the other ridiculous ideas people get thousands of dollars for on there. But I guess we're just not used to having it so easy.

I've got a whole bunch of ideas, I just don't have any way to start a Kickstarter project myself.

[commodorejohn]

I've got a whole bunch of ideas, I just don't have any way to start a Kickstarter project myself.

Oh, it's US-only, isn't it? Weak! (Though I suppose it probably has to do with tax issues or something.)

Still, you'd have to think there's someone in the community who could handle the US end of an international project...

[Tripitaka]

Oh, it's US-only, isn't it? Weak! (Though I suppose it probably has to do with tax issues or something.)

Still, you'd have to think there's someone in the community who could handle the US end of an international project...

I like the way you think.

Yes, I commented just to bump.

[Tripitaka]

@Cammy

Try:  http://www.pozible.com.au/

That's the Australian version of kickstarter on that link up above.

Ain't I nice.

....aaaannnnd:  http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/

That's the UK equivalent.

[Cammy]

I'm just throwing this out there because it's an idea I've wanted to try for a while, but I don't want to sound weird or vain. Together with (hopefully) another girl or two, I'd like to make a photographic calendar for 2012 where we dress up as some characters from a different Amiga game each month. We would only need to beg for enough money to pay for the various costumes, then we could end up selling the calendar for cost price + shipping (and offer a free PDF and JPEG versions for downloading and printing).

How does that sound? I think if we made a second calendar which had photos of various other video games as well we could appeal to a non-Amiga audience too.

[Tripitaka]

So work out the costs involved, paste up your idea on above funding site and let us all know that you've done it. Then push the link around via facebook, twitter etc... let sites like geek.com know  etc...etc... In fact, just shut about it the best you can and make it happen.

I'm sure many at Amiga.org would help get it going. Sounds like the sort of calender I would buy.

And good luck, hope you do it.