Sorry to hear your Kickstarter failed ! Your point is super relevant I too really believe you should ask yourself hard and long what you want to achieve from a Kickstarter before doing it , as it takes a LOT of hard work to get a successful campaign and even more so to turn that into a profitable business . We are actually in the process of calculating how much time we spend on development and campaigning , but I will try to figure out exactly how much cash we spend in the process as well at the moment I don ' t know to be honest . At this stage I ' m pretty sure our wage will be less than impressing , but if you read the blogpost just skip this the goal of our campaign wasn ' t making a profit right know it was to test the market and get the funds to set up production . If the campaign failed we would loose time and money , but nothing compared the amount we would loose if we had set up production before we knew if the market was there . In other words We feel we have validated our market now , but the actual profit is still to be made . I hope that makes sense , and thanks for some dare I say it Kickass questions !