Comments on: My Last Word On Kickstarter Until The Next One

By: steve

steve — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:21:26 +0000

a question:

query – has anyone considered the ratio of project viewers to project donors? i.e. google calim 3% is their standard ‘sales success ratio’. what is kickstarter’s viewer to donor success ratio?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:19:46 +0000

a comment and a question:
comment – isn’t this data, when plotted, a standard bell curve with the peak at $50 and therefore is just classic normal distribution?
query – has anyone considered the ratio of project viewers to project donors? i.e. google calim 3% is their standard ‘sales success ratio’. what is kickstarter’s viewer to donor success ratio?

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By: Mark V

Mark V — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:39:31 +0000

I wonder about the indirect effects of the lower tiers attracting
higher tiered backers — either through word of mouth (e.g.,
someone pledges at a low tier and then encourages friends / the
internet to pledge so that the project will get funded) or simple
body count (e.g., if high-tier backers are more likely to back a
project that already has a high backer number). It might be
interesting to do a daily sampling of a bunch of projects and
look at the cross-correlation of the time series for the
different tiers.

By: Gary Tyrrell

Gary Tyrrell — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:57:13 +0000

Pretty much right on both counts.

By: Michael Corley

Michael Corley — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:41:48 +0000

Fascinating. People can fool themselves on what they HOPE their kickstarter will be, but numbers don’t lie.

By: Myth

Myth — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:17:02 +0000

Definitely interesting stuff. I still think that we don’t really have enough data for any firm conclusions, especially since the individual rewards themselves, and how desirable they are, will make a huge difference – and is also very hard to measure. (Along with measuring the costs of those rewards as well.)

I don’t think one should ignore the lower tiers (since the <$10 range falls in 'impulse spend' for many web denizens), but it is a good point to not over-invest resources into those categories. I suspect a lot of those folks are those who aren't even looking for anything substantial out of the rewards, but simply the nice feeling of contributing a few dollars to a project they support.

The $25 to $75 range, meanwhile, is likely to be where you are seeing the folks who are actually looking to get something substantial for their investment – typically whatever book/game/etc that you are actually producing.

By: Darren J. Gendron

Darren J. Gendron — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:07:34 +0000

If Scurvy Dogs was omitted because of why I think it was omitted, I think it’s the right call.
Gary, I don’t want to assume, but I think it was filtered out because it’s a board game by two webcomic guys, but not actually from the webcomics they create. Where as Monster Alphabet was directly from Hello with Cheese.
Either that, or mustache envy.