>Out of the many kickstarters I've contributed to, only one has shipped and only one more appears to have had any progress in the past 6 months.
For what it's worth, I've had my own reservations [1].
Since then:
- 2/9 have shipped, one precisely on schedule.
- 1/9 is shipping now after a forgivable hurricane-related delay and just might meet the schedule.
- 1/9 has barely gotten started, but has a relatively generous schedule, veteran team and continuous updates.
- 1/9 appears to be just marching right along, unremarkable.
- 2/9 are behind schedule, but have been providing enough in the way of updates and/or early access that I remain quite confident. However, I will say that in both cases, their schedules appeared plainly unrealistic from the jump.
- 1/9 appears to be floundering and has gone a month or more without updates at times.
- 1/9 is so massive and ambitious that I can't help but expect problems even though a lack of updates has been the only issue so far.
The impressions I gather from my admittedly tiny data set:
1) If the schedule seems unrealistic, it likely is. One year is probably a good starting point for creating anything from scratch.
2) Exceeding the funding goal seems to correlate to delays.
3) Experience counts. Veterans have performed better at delivering and much better at providing updates.
I am also in roughly this situation with my Kickstarter backing. I have funded 10 projects over the course of the last 10 or 11 months. And I just received my third item, allow not in the same order I backed. For right now, this has definitely put me off a little from Kickstarter and I am hesitant to back more projects until I receive some of the ones I have already backed.
For what it's worth, I've had my own reservations [1].
Since then:
- 2/9 have shipped, one precisely on schedule.
- 1/9 is shipping now after a forgivable hurricane-related delay and just might meet the schedule.
- 1/9 has barely gotten started, but has a relatively generous schedule, veteran team and continuous updates.
- 1/9 appears to be just marching right along, unremarkable.
- 2/9 are behind schedule, but have been providing enough in the way of updates and/or early access that I remain quite confident. However, I will say that in both cases, their schedules appeared plainly unrealistic from the jump.
- 1/9 appears to be floundering and has gone a month or more without updates at times.
- 1/9 is so massive and ambitious that I can't help but expect problems even though a lack of updates has been the only issue so far.
The impressions I gather from my admittedly tiny data set:
1) If the schedule seems unrealistic, it likely is. One year is probably a good starting point for creating anything from scratch.
2) Exceeding the funding goal seems to correlate to delays.
3) Experience counts. Veterans have performed better at delivering and much better at providing updates.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323835