Journey to Kickstarter

Is it worth it? We’ll find out soon.

Main kickstarter video for the Kickstarter campaign

Hello folks,

Hope you are all doing well.

If you haven’t already heard, we are actually coming out on Kickstarter tomorrow.

Also if you haven’t been following the project, it has changed significantly. The Kickstarter page is probably the best place to catch up.

I have been avoiding Kickstarter for years now, because every time I meet people who have launched on Kickstarter or are planning to, they look like they haven’t slept in days. And honestly, that is what I feel like right now.

Early supporters get 30% discount.

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Early supporters get 30% discount. 〰️

Draft page for the campaign scheduled to release tomorrow.

Kickstarter is an interesting platform. It started as something to support innovators looking for support to get their ideas out, but as it got popular and it’s potential was realised, bigger companies started concealing themselves as startups. Kickstarter is slowly turning into a marketing platform for established businesses.

This 3D printer by Anker, which definitely did not needs crowdfunding support, raised almost $9 Million on Kickstarter. One of the numerous examples of bigger businesses using Kickstarter as a marketing platform.

This has effectively made it very difficult for people who actually need crowdfunding to launch, and do not have bags of money lying around for ads and teams of employees, struggle way more than they should. I fall into that category. Hence the stress and lack of sleep.

That being said, it’s not impossible, and there are ways to setup a good campaign with limited resources. I have tried that, and now all I can do is actually release.

Livegrid has been officially selected as one of the projects they love on Kickstarter.

A lot of people have warned me against launching ‘too soon’, and to have atleast 500 subscribers. Reason being the projects which don’t get early success don’t even show up on the Kickstarter page. I am nowhere close to those numbers, but I don’t even know how to get there. The campaign lasts for a full month, so there is plenty of time to keep promoting the project.

I also don’t want to launch ads straight-away. So the plan is to let the campaign cook over the weekend, and then launch ads only if it feels necessary.

So keep an eye out, I will send another reminder a few hours before the launch. Your support means a lot and please feel free to contact me at Livegrid.tech if you have any questions/suggestions/feedback around the project.