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Behold, the dark side of @kickstarter. For every few awesome projects that deliver, there's a Victor Aleman and Ismael Porras L. who use the goodwill of backers to pocket a bunch of money and leave them hanging. This tabletop Kickstarter, supposedly... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/880827004/the-grid-game-the-reinvention-of-the-dominoes
...out of New York, promised a beautifully designed reinvention of dominoes. Backers got their wallets out and the project blazed past its $20k goal in no time, hitting $243,657. As the project progressed, the initially confidence-inspiring updates became fewer and farther...
...between, but always with reassurances that the product was shaping up well. Until March 20. Then both creators went dark and never responded again. Backers were left hanging and, initially worried that there had been a personal tragedy, discovered that the creators were...
...alive and well in Mexico, but busy locking down their social feeds instead of answering questions, and blocking people who asked about the Kickstarter. The only life sign since then? One of the creators, Victor Aleman, proudly sharing his "best design" https://www.instagram.com/p/CCj4DIojmwK/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Which he's totally selling to you, if you want it. All it took was $250k to fund it.
The moral of the story: Kickstarter is a funding platform with risks and there's little recourse or resolution when things go wrong.
The moral of the story: Kickstarter is a funding platform with risks and there's little recourse or resolution when things go wrong.
PS: Note, that last Kickstarter page update from these guys was in 2019, so it's not a victim of the covid-19 delays that have hit many projects. I'm a pretty avid backer and MOST have come through.
