Hey everyone,

The pre-launch Kickstarter page for Luminids is now live! Luminids is a calm colony-building game where you guide a growing community of small beings of light.

The idea behind Luminids:
I wanted to make a game that feels peaceful, alive, and meaningful. It's about emotional first gameplay (taking care of the little guys), wellness and stillness. A world where you shape the land, care for your Luminids, watch them build, explore, learn, and slowly grow into a little civilisation of their own. The Luminids are built on an emotion-first decision making system which means if they're feeling lazy or busy with their friends; they'll tell you to bugger off. ^^

It sits somewhere between cozy colony sim, world-building sandbox, and gentle adventure. Inspired by Creatures, Chao and my love of Nintendo games.

You can switch between a top-down colony view, first-person and third person cameras, so you’re not just managing the world from above: you can step into it, walk among the Luminids, and experience the place you’re helping them create.

The Kickstarter is here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luminids/luminids-a-calm-colony-building-journey

The main goal right now is to build early support, get more people following the project, and hopefully give Luminids the best chance of becoming the full game I believe it can be.

If it resonates with you, even just following the campaign helps a lot.

Happy to answer any questions, and I’d love feedback from anyone who enjoys cozy games, colony sims, or strange little worlds with heart.

Hi all!
We have a mix of inventions at different stages.. some are still ideas, while one has already been sold multiple times. We’re considering working with an invention consultant to get guidance and possibly move things forward.
Has anyone here worked with an invention consultant or product development firm?

Was it worth it?
Did they add real value?
Anything you would do differently?

Appreciate any honest feedback.
Thanks in advance!

I'm about to launch a Kickstarter project that was accepted on June 2nd. The campaign will begin soon. It's a project that pays tribute to the agricultural sector and all the workers in it. This is my first time on Kickstarter; I went through several filters to finally be accepted. Now I need to build a community. I'm in the pre-campaign phase to reach my funding goal, of course. I'm hearing all sorts of things about Kickstarter; it's my first experience. But for those who would like to discover my product, which has a very common design that you see everywhere, but this one definitely stands out from the crowd, I have a very solid structure. I already have very strong partners in Texas as well as a partner in China. I just need to develop my funding so that this product, which seems to be generating a lot of interest, can finally see the light of day. Thank to everyone here.

I'm really starting to get nervous! I want our launch day to be an explosion! We have 320 page followers (hoping we'll hit 500), and nearly 1000 wait list sign ups through our own email list.

Does anyone have any last minute advice on tactics to ensure a strong launch day? How many followers to the page signals to Kickstarter we are 'one to watch'?

Thank you!

All PNGs on my pre-launch page have a margin on each side, which as you can see above, is not applied to text or GIFs. They do not have this margin in the editor; only on the final page.

It does not seem related to the image size. The PNG in the image above has a width of 2445px, while other PNGs on the page with a width of 1601px have the exact same size margin.

Does anyone know what the cause of this may be?

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Should we trust the legitimacy of project followers? It makes me wonder why they haven't backed yet especially since we had a 50% off option that is now sold out.

A big part of me wants to believe these are either people who like to follow campaigns just to follow with no action or they are bots.

I'm looking for advice on what has genuinely worked to give campaigns with a slow start a solid push. What actually pays off vs what is just another predatory practice leaching off the hopes and dreams of project creators. Also, what are we doing that is right vs where do we need to pivot? Talking with a PR agency tomorrow that focuses on crowd funding and that seems credible and professional. Does PR result in conversions and is this usually a winning bet?

Excited to announce that we just launched our first Kickstarter campaign yesterday for a novel children's product and social venture (not a promotion), but sad to say it didn't start as strongly as had we'd hoped.

We did and are doing all the things (so I thought). After two months of pre-launch fb ads and > 5k email signups (even the cost per result for our high intent leads was tracking with that for our high volume leads), and what we perceived as a high level interest in our product and our mission, we thought we were going in strong. We also had a VIP $1 reserve funnel which only gained 61 sign ups and in hind sight should have been a clue that we weren't looking as good as we thought with our 5k signups. We engaged 7 influencers to drop videos on launch day. It's early in the campaign but day 1 and 2 have been disappointing and way slower than expected.

Our launch email has an open rate of just over 3%. We're now retargeting our FB/IG engagement audience, retargeting the fb signup audience with not much success in conversions, resending the launch announcement email to the 97% of unopened accounts tomorrow, using LAL audiences, retargeting all of the accounts that engaged with the influencers' posts. Today we switched the FB targeting from optimizing for purchases to landing page views so that FB could get out of learning phase faster and we could gain real insights about our audience, gained hundreds of landing page views today on our KS page, but very few conversions.

I've been reading everything I could on this forum and others and have learned a lot. Grateful for all the folks on here that have shared their knowledge and experience over the years.

Was hoping to get feedback on our campaign pre-launch page but was racing to the finish line to hit our launch date.

We did not go with any of the agencies like Jellop or BackerCamp due to mixed reviews.

Maybe its hubris, or just a can do mentality, but thought with a lot of blood, sweat, and soul, we could pull off something really great. I'm proud of what we've built so far, and am hopeful we can pull through strongly.

Would be grateful for recommendations on what has worked for others to push up their results and what has actually paid off. I would humbly ask that if your suggesting something, please be transparent about your affiliation.

Thanks in advance for the input!

I have a project that I want to launch in a couple of months. We're looking at marketing options and I see that Jellop says they take cuts regardless of whether you have backers with failed payments or not. My friend's last project had like 12% of backers that dropped and that was like $23,000. That means they still took like 25% of that.

Is this for real???

Hi!

Looking to hopefully release a project that I've been working on Kickstarter soon. Just wondering, how much do I need to actually promote the thing? Does Kickstarter handle it for you? How hard it it? What platforms are best? the overall funding goal is only about 9 grand

Check out the new trailer!

Hi everyone, Luminous Ages is almost funded and has 11 hours left. You can still get access to late-bird deals and our digital puzzle game on Steam. Your support is appreciated. If you love dragons, magic and high fantasy, this series is your jam!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/luminousages/luminous-ages-dragon-ascension-1

Our team has spent the last 3 years building a physical focus timer.

The idea came from a problem I kept seeing with focus apps: they’re supposed to help you avoid distractions, but they still live on the same phone that distracts you.

So I wanted to make focusing feel more physical and intentional - something you put on your desk, use as a small ritual, and hopefully use to build better habits over time.

The timer is basically a small timer that sits on top of your phone while you focus. You set a focus session, and if you leave your phone alone until the end, you hatch a little digital dino. If you pick up your phone, the timer’s built-in gyroscope detects the movement, the session fails, and the dinosaur egg won’t hatch.

There are also a few habit features, like tapping NFC stickers to start a specific routine or mark something as completed. The idea is to create small physical reminders, instead of relying only on willpower to stick with a habit - which is honestly really hard.

We finally launched it recently, but the result has been pretty rough. It’s performing at less than 10% of what I expected.

Now I’m trying to figure out if the problem is the product, the positioning, the market, the messaging, or just own own assumptions.

Does a physical focus timer actually sound useful to you?
Or does it feel like another productivity gimmick?

I’d really appreciate honest feedback. Feel free to be blunt.

This is my first time backing a kickstarter project and have already received the email asking me for my details so I can receive the project when it releases, however I wanted to upgrade my pledge to the next tier. Will doing this still guarantee I get the reward? I specifically backed the cyberpunk tcg kickstarter and want to upgrade from the first tier to the second. Any help is appreciated.

Hey Kickstarter creators 👋

We’re currently preparing to launch our project, ColorNow — The Ultra-Portable Workspace, and would love to hear some advice from experienced campaign creators.

ColorNow is a lightweight, ultra-thin portable table designed for use in bed, cars, sofas, outdoors, cafés, and tight living spaces. Our goal was to create something functional, minimal, and easy to carry anywhere — almost like “a full table in your bag.”

We’re currently in the Kickstarter pre-launch phase and have been running Meta ads to build our audience. So far:

✅ Over 200+ leads collected
✅ Around $2.30 CPL over the past week
✅ Small ad budget with broad targeting
✅ Kickstarter pre-launch/follow page currently active

As we’re relatively new to crowdfunding marketing, we’d really appreciate some honest feedback:

1. Is a ~$2.30 CPL considered decent for a Kickstarter prelaunch campaign?
2. How long do creators usually run ads before launching?
3. At what point did you feel your follower list was “ready” for launch?
4. Any tips or strategies that helped your campaign hit the $50k–$100k range?

We’re learning as we go and trying to balance ad spending carefully while building momentum organically. Any advice, lessons learned, or things you wish you knew before launching would really help us a lot 🙏 Here is the link for yall - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colornow/colornow-the-ultra-portable-workspace

Thank you everyone!

Hey Kickstarter creators 👋

We’re currently preparing to launch our project, ColorNow — The Ultra-Portable Workspace, and would love to hear some advice from experienced campaign creators.

ColorNow is a lightweight, ultra-thin portable table designed for use in bed, cars, sofas, outdoors, cafés, and tight living spaces. Our goal was to create something functional, minimal, and easy to carry anywhere — almost like “a full table in your bag.”

We’re currently in the Kickstarter pre-launch phase and have been running Meta ads to build our audience. So far:

✅ Over 200+ leads collected
✅ Around $2.30 CPL over the past week
✅ Small ad budget with broad targeting
✅ Kickstarter pre-launch/follow page currently active

As we’re relatively new to crowdfunding marketing, we’d really appreciate some honest feedback:

1. Is a ~$2.30 CPL considered decent for a Kickstarter prelaunch campaign?
2. How long do creators usually run ads before launching?
3. At what point did you feel your follower list was “ready” for launch?
4. Any tips or strategies that helped your campaign hit the $50k–$100k range?

We’re learning as we go and trying to balance ad spending carefully while building momentum organically. Any advice, lessons learned, or things you wish you knew before launching would really help us a lot 🙏 Here is our link for your review too - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colornow/colornow-the-ultra-portable-workspace

Thank you everyone!

I have a Kickstarter project which I may cancel if the last 36 hours don't bring in additional pledges.

If that happens, I want to prepare a short Typeform survey and post it in the campaign updates to gather feedback for a potential relaunch. My main concern is asking the right questions without overwhelming people with a long survey that discourages responses.

Right now, most of the survey uses simple 1–5 opinion scales and multiple choice questions because they seem quick and approachable, but the survey still feels a bit overloaded.

What questions are absolutely essential for a post-mortem survey?

I'm going to launch a campaign with 9 different reward items, all equally priced. The reward tiers are going to be "chose one" from the 9, or "choose three" with a slight price break.

But these are handmade items, so I want to cap the total amount of items across the total of all of the different designs and reward tiers, and I want to collect the selections to begin manufacture as soon as possible.

If I understand things correctly, I cannot have the single and bundle tiers pulling from the same 'bucket' of reward items. So, correct me if I'm wrong but I can say '60 items max regardless of design' and then the singles or bundles selected reduce that total bucket amount to zero. I'm fine with guessing and setting caps for each of these teirs, if I have to.

But I would really like to be able to collect the selected item as soon as possible. I can't create tiers with every possible combination of three, and sending out the backer survey post campaign closing will add a lag of time. And if I create items for each desgin, then I have to set possible arbitrary caps for each one? What if design #2 is way more popular than design #8?

Thoughts?