Did they advertise this long before they launched on KickStarter? How did people find out so quickly otherwise?
I launched a kickstarter campaign myself and I'm doing terribly. I look around and see all sorts of weird campaigns getting funded and can't help but think: What am I doing wrong? People in real life tell me they like my product, yet on kickstarter it's going no where. So I guess it's safe to assume, they either lied to me and my product is undesirable, no one knows about my campaign despite me trying to get featured on design blogs, or I'm so repulsively ugly in my video that I drive people away.
It probably started with a Tim Schafer tweet (50k followers). I primarily follow other game devs and damn near everyone tweeted the link. At one point 2 hours after launch my stream had 10 tweets in a row with a link. Game devs are heavily followed by gamers and media so everyone picked it up almost instantly.
Even better is that every game dev and every gamer wanted to see this succeed so it wasn't just one tweet but a stream. Every gaming website I know had threads with people excitedly yelling out milestones. Notch let his 578k followers know that he pledged 10k.
To be honest after just a few hours in it was almost impossible to not know about. Even HN had multiple links with discussion.
Power of the internet my friend, they did not advertise it at all until the project was live, there was no coverage of the impending launch besides Tim said on Twitter "big announcement coming" an hour before.
Can you link us to your product? Kickstarter is some part luck and a large part making something people want.
Come on, is that really a helpful comment? It's not like he posted his project on the "non-internet" Kickstarter and that's why it's doing poorly.
I would imagine Kickstarter success comes with fame and marketing. If you're famous, all it takes is a tweet. If not, you'll have to work hard at getting the word out and hope that maybe someone else famous will take notice.
I saw it on Reddit, where I suspect the wave grew dramatically. Have you tried submitting your project to Reddit? Note: submitting at the right time of day is quite crucial I suspect.
I launched a kickstarter campaign myself and I'm doing terribly. I look around and see all sorts of weird campaigns getting funded and can't help but think: What am I doing wrong? People in real life tell me they like my product, yet on kickstarter it's going no where. So I guess it's safe to assume, they either lied to me and my product is undesirable, no one knows about my campaign despite me trying to get featured on design blogs, or I'm so repulsively ugly in my video that I drive people away.