Hi Kay, These campaigns were pre-announced to me as a survey, without the details of how long the campaigns were to run, and the other details about funding. I’m shocked to learn that they are only 5 days long. I was expecting it to run for at least a month like most other Kickstarter fundraisers. There are probably others on the list who assumed the same time period.
When I received the next email about the announcement titled "Prioritize Your Features” the details still were not listed in the email. At that point, my interest started waning, because I still wasn’t seeing the basic details. So, as a user, feeling a little frustrated, I failed to bother to click on any more buttons. Yes we users are a lazy sort some times aren’t we. Make us click too many times for something, and we are gone. If only I had just clicked one more time most of my questions would have been answered. Ah well, design is everything these days. I think some users may have expected that 64 bit, and the other projects were already in the pipeline to be accomplished, and may have put off by asking for funding before a stable version of LiveCode 8 has been released. There is such a thing as going to the “Well" too many times too soon. It takes time for the “Well" to replenish the water from the aquifer. The pot of gold there only appears rarely. Running 4 campaigns at the same time splits the focus. Where one campaign may have succeeded on it’s own, splitting the vote too may ways can lose the election so nothing gets funded. It might have been better to lump all of the campaigns into one large one at a later time, and run the campaign longer so there is time to get the word around. A rare campaign to get funding for a special project like the “Community Version” or “HTML5” can work fine. As a standard required part of a business model, it usually doesn’t work. I’m concerned that it’s beginning to sound like the company is struggling to meet it’s payroll if it feels the need to run so many campaigns to keep running. Heather’s blog entry about money not growing on trees hinted this may be the case. I think expanding the user base is probably much more important to sustain the company. I believe the LiveCode community would be willing to help out with that goal if a plan with a clear cut approach and achievable goals were mapped out by Kevin. Ok, that’s just my 2 cents for the day. I hope all of your funding goals are reached for every project in the next few days if possible. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my seemingly rather obvious questions too. Have a nice day! Rick > On Sep 25, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you were to go to any of the FE Projects you'll see to the right of the > big bold project icons it's all stated very clearly. > > In summary: 5 days from it's commencement. No money has been paid, you > can't be charged now. You will only be charged if the goal is reached. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
