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SHOW HN2012
187points
63comments
#86of 1,677 in 2012
Top 6%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
10 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful resource showing that failure is possible on Kickstarter
From 2 comments
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I run a website in the tabletop RPG space, and there is an average of 1 new kickstarter per day for someone trying to fund their new game,…
MicahWedemeyer on HNAs soon as I realized how difficult it was to find a comprehensive list of failed Kickstarter projects, I frantically began building a private database of them so that I have the…
Smudge on HN
Clean design closely mirroring Kickstarter
From 2 comments
This site answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. It's a really great site that closely mirrors the KS design. Nice work! Things I'd like to see added: Length of…
brechin on HNI love how even simple adjustments can make a twitter-bootstrap site appear more personalized. Maybe it's the black bar, but I tend to groan a little bit whenever I see it on new…
danielna on HN
Simple and focused
From 1 comment
I like this. Simple and focussed, and invaluable to anyone willing to learn from what worked and didn't for others.
tsieling on HN
Objections
Success defined only as funded, not delivered
From 2 comments
"Success" should be more than just getting funded, it should be following through with the project. I could "kickstart" a trip to the moon with no engineering knowledge, and a…
blhack on HNWhat would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be "funded and delivered on…
ColinDabritz on HN
Dataset covers only projects ended since mid-June 2012 and is incomplete
From 1 comment
It's an incomplete list. TKBM has only been tracking projects that ended since mid-June 2012. According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all…
misener on HN
Cancelled projects may be excluded from success rate
From 1 comment
But does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled/removed projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?
jjb123 on HN
Requests
Search functionality
From 2 comments
Great resource. Would it be possible to have search functionality?
z2600 on HNI also would like to see search added. Love the concept and will keep an eye on it.
vegasbrianc on HN
Follow-through or delivery status tracking
From 3 comments
is there a way to check which of the 'successful' were actually built, not only backed?
zalew on HNWhat would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be "funded and delivered on…
ColinDabritz on HNFollow through would be an amazing feature. It would start giving us real data about the success rate of crowdfunding.
unimpressive on HN
Campaign duration and launch/end date filters
From 2 comments
This site answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. It's a really great site that closely mirrors the KS design. Nice work! Things I'd like to see added: Length of…
brechin on HNVery cool...what I would like to see is duration of fundraising, if you were able to collect this? What I mean is to have that in the current view...seems more useful than how…
danso on HN
Accumulated stats per category
From 1 comment
For macro-level research, it would be useful if every category and filtered view featured accumulated stats (e.g., # of projects/successes/failures).
jkbr on HN
Public API or data dump
From 2 comments
This site answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. It's a really great site that closely mirrors the KS design. Nice work! Things I'd like to see added: Length of…
brechin on HNAny chance of kickstarter releasing a dump of this so we can all have a play? Even at just a month of data it'll stop us all scraping the hell out of the site.
brador on HN
Questions
Is the ~72% success rate inflated by the post-June 2012 window?
From 3 comments
That is a shockingly high success rate. It seems like 75% when I would have guessed 20%
acgourley on HNAccording to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of…
misener on HNBut does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled/removed projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?
jjb123 on HN
How to get the project ids
From 1 comment
How do you get the pids?
dwwoelfel on HN
Alternatives named
Kicktraq
From 1 comment
This is a great tool! Along with Kicktraq (http://kicktraq.com/) and Kicksaver (http://www.kicksaver.net/ - I made this a while ago), there are now third party projects like this…
ecmendenhall on HN
Kicksaver
From 1 comment
This is a great tool! Along with Kicktraq (http://kicktraq.com/) and Kicksaver (http://www.kicksaver.net/ - I made this a while ago), there are now third party projects like this…
ecmendenhall on HN
Kickstarter's own stats page
From 2 comments
The success rate is actually 44%. You can find the stats directly on Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
DuoSRX on HNI replied the same thing to another post, but these stats are already available on KS. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
DuoSRX on HN