<story><title>Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-encrypted-and-lockable-usb-solution/comments</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>The expectations some people have about crowdfunding are unrealistic. It has to be clear from the start that when you donate money to those projects the money will be spent and the project might fail anyway. People have been using Kickstarter as a pre-order site which I think is not ideal in many cases. The option to preorder should be different from supporting a project in general, but Kickstarter sadly doesn&apos;t offer that kind of separation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>incision</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;#62;People have been using Kickstarter as a pre-order site which I think is not ideal in many cases.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kickstarter backs this perception.&lt;p&gt;&quot;In just 24 hours, 20,000 people &lt;i&gt;bought&lt;/i&gt; an Ouya console — a product they had never heard of before yesterday.&quot; - Yancey Strickler - Cofounder/Head of Communications at Kickstarter [0]&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-encrypted-and-lockable-usb-solution/comments</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>The expectations some people have about crowdfunding are unrealistic. It has to be clear from the start that when you donate money to those projects the money will be spent and the project might fail anyway. People have been using Kickstarter as a pre-order site which I think is not ideal in many cases. The option to preorder should be different from supporting a project in general, but Kickstarter sadly doesn&apos;t offer that kind of separation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>A project failing and a project going completely silent are two different things.</text></comment>