[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":424},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-4366002":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":42,"post_text":44,"what":45,"said":72,"maker_in_thread":211,"shape":223,"grid":227,"attempts":387,"same_week":388,"maker_shows":33,"maker_hidden":416,"reader_version":417,"card":418},"4366002","The KickBack Machine","See Kickstarter successes and failures","title","Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.thekickbackmachine.com\u002F","thekickbackmachine.com","misener",1344604921,2012,187,63,86,1677,6,"notable","web_saas","crowdfunding analytics","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"kickstarter","crowdfunding","project success rate","kickstarter failures","curious",0.275,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},10,14,1,2,27,{"idea":37,"execution":39,"design":41},{"positive":38,"critical":33},5,{"positive":33,"critical":40},0,{"positive":34,"critical":40},[40,40,40,33,40,40,43,38,38,40,40,40,38,43,40,40,40,38,40,38,40,40,43,43,43,40,33,40,43,43,43,38,40,43,43,40,38,43,38,43],3,null,{"problem":46,"audience":53,"pricing":44,"motivation":65,"time_to_build":44,"stack":69,"openness":70,"stage":71,"team_size":70},{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Kickstarter's site doesn't make it easy to collect projects by outcome and goal","maker",[50],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},"4366379","Search is on the roadmap, for sure. That said, Kickstarter's existing search function performs very well. The primary purpose of TKBM is to collect Kickstarter projects together…",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"people researching or launching Kickstarter campaigns","inferred",[57,61],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"4366554","MicahWedemeyer","I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I run a website in the tabletop RPG space, and there is an average of 1 new kickstarter per day for someone trying to fund their new game,…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"4366830","Smudge","As soon as I realized how difficult it was to find a comprehensive list of failed Kickstarter projects, I frantically began building a private database of them so that I have the…",{"value":66,"source":48,"evidence":67},"Collect Kickstarter projects together by outcome and goal, which Kickstarter's site doesn't make easy",[68],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":73,"objections":98,"requests":123,"questions":170,"alternatives":189},[74,80,91],{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"Useful resource showing that failure is possible on Kickstarter","commenter",[78,79],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"value":81,"source":76,"evidence":82},"Clean design closely mirroring Kickstarter",[83,87],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"4366942","brechin","This site answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. It's a really great site that closely mirrors the KS design. Nice work! Things I'd like to see added: Length of…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"4366170","danielna","I love how even simple adjustments can make a twitter-bootstrap site appear more personalized. Maybe it's the black bar, but I tend to groan a little bit whenever I see it on new…",{"value":92,"source":76,"evidence":93},"Simple and focused",[94],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"4366078","tsieling","I like this. Simple and focussed, and invaluable to anyone willing to learn from what worked and didn't for others.",[99,110,116],{"value":100,"source":76,"evidence":101},"Success defined only as funded, not delivered",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"4367091","blhack","\"Success\" should be more than just getting funded, it should be following through with the project. I could \"kickstart\" a trip to the moon with no engineering knowledge, and a…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"4367110","ColinDabritz","What would be incredibly useful to me is a 'follow-through' indicator for the funded projects. When I read the link I thought 'success' was going to be \"funded and delivered on…",{"value":111,"source":48,"evidence":112},"Dataset covers only projects ended since mid-June 2012 and is incomplete",[113],{"id":114,"by":11,"text":115},"4367577","It's an incomplete list. TKBM has only been tracking projects that ended since mid-June 2012. According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all…",{"value":117,"source":76,"evidence":118},"Cancelled projects may be excluded from success rate",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"4368414","jjb123","But does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled\u002Fremoved projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?",[124,135,147,155,162],{"value":125,"source":76,"evidence":126},"Search functionality",[127,131],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"4366370","z2600","Great resource. Would it be possible to have search functionality?",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"4366450","vegasbrianc","I also would like to see search added. Love the concept and will keep an eye on it.",{"value":136,"source":76,"evidence":137},"Follow-through or delivery status tracking",[138,142,143],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"4366025","zalew","is there a way to check which of the 'successful' were actually built, not only backed?",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"4366496","unimpressive","Follow through would be an amazing feature. It would start giving us real data about the success rate of crowdfunding.",{"value":148,"source":76,"evidence":149},"Campaign duration and launch\u002Fend date filters",[150,151],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"4367607","danso","Very cool...what I would like to see is duration of fundraising, if you were able to collect this? What I mean is to have that in the current view...seems more useful than how…",{"value":156,"source":76,"evidence":157},"Accumulated stats per category",[158],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"4366503","jkbr","For macro-level research, it would be useful if every category and filtered view featured accumulated stats (e.g., # of projects\u002Fsuccesses\u002Ffailures).",{"value":163,"source":76,"evidence":164},"Public API or data dump",[165,166],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"4367570","brador","Any chance of kickstarter releasing a dump of this so we can all have a play? Even at just a month of data it'll stop us all scraping the hell out of the site.",[171,182],{"value":172,"source":76,"evidence":173},"Is the ~72% success rate inflated by the post-June 2012 window?",[174,178,181],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"4367013","acgourley","That is a shockingly high success rate. It seems like 75% when I would have guessed 20%",{"id":179,"by":11,"text":180},"4367564","According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"value":183,"source":76,"evidence":184},"How to get the project ids",[185],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"4368031","dwwoelfel","How do you get the pids?",[190,197,201],{"value":191,"source":76,"evidence":192},"Kicktraq",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"4367542","ecmendenhall","This is a great tool! Along with Kicktraq (http:\u002F\u002Fkicktraq.com\u002F) and Kicksaver (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.kicksaver.net\u002F - I made this a while ago), there are now third party projects like this…",{"value":198,"source":76,"evidence":199},"Kicksaver",[200],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},{"value":202,"source":76,"evidence":203},"Kickstarter's own stats page",[204,208],{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"4367081","DuoSRX","The success rate is actually 44%. You can find the stats directly on Kickstarter. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.kickstarter.com\u002Fhelp\u002Fstats",{"id":209,"by":206,"text":210},"4367121","I replied the same thing to another post, but these stats are already available on KS. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.kickstarter.com\u002Fhelp\u002Fstats",{"comments":212,"answered":18,"key":213},11,[214,217,220],{"id":215,"text":216},"4367552","Indeed, the launch date is there, but it's only accurate to the day. To figure out the actual launch date+time, you need to look at the deadline and subtract the project…",{"id":218,"text":219},"4366342","Solid suggestion. I suppose that the length and colour of the progress bar is probably enough to signal whether a project was successful or not. Thanks.",{"id":221,"text":222},"4367584","Indeed, the aggregate numbers are there, but it's extremely difficult to find individual examples of success\u002Ffailure by category or goal. 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