Kickstarter & Records

The fundraising record on Kickstarter could very well be broken within 65 hours. The Elevation Dock is only a couple tens of thousands dollars away from breaking the $970,000 record set by LunaTik (interestingly enough also an Apple product project). Now, a few short hours after reading a post on how the funding record might be broken this month on Kickstarter a new project emerges - Double Fine Adventure.

In a few short hours this project from the prestigious video-game studio Double Fine has received up to $50,000 in funding. I believe that Double Fine Adventure could be a contender for the fastest backed project in the history of Kickstarter. With every page refresh the funding counter increases by $1,000-$2,000 dollars. Double Fine Adventure might even have the potential to break the Kickstarter funding record within the same month! 

Tim Schaefer - founder of Double Fine - speaks in his Kickstarter video of how Double Fine doesn’t have to pitch to publishers for funding. They can pitch straight to their audience. Casey Hopkins of Portland, Oregon rather than taking out a loan from a bank or taking on funding pitched his product to millions of strangers and received backing to make his idea into a reality. 

Kickstarter is our own self made future.