u/tithtomata

So my project has been live for a few days now. I had a question from someone outside of the kickstatter app regarding something that was clearly addressed in ny campaign. So I answered his question, then went and looked on desktop, everything was as it should be. Went to the app, and to my horror when I open the campaign in app I found that around 30-40% of my campaign is missing!! Everything from missing pictures, gifs, and entire blocks of text!!

I was hoping it was just on my end. I did all the recommended steps, force stopped the app, Uninstalled and reinstalled, even tried viewing it while logged out. Still the same half empty campaign. This is horrible news!

I have submitted a help ticket to kickstarter, but in the meantime, has anybody else ever seen this happen?? I can't believe it, this is my first campaign and there's no way of telling how much this has potentially hurt me in the first 4 days. I feel sick about it.

Link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hdn-innovations/1318455883?ref=bn8sl9&token=485b46db

This is my first every kickstarter campaign, it's been a fumbling mess to be sure. I'm hoping to have it launched by hopefully the beginning of June, and post the prelaunch page around online along with some short videos/pictures.

I don't know if I should leave the photos/gifs as they are, or add some info graphics to them? Any thoughts in that regard?

I'm definitely not in the same league as these polished and professional pages you see, so please roast me if need be, any feedback greatly appreciated!

I'm in the works of launching my first campaign hopefully soon. Have prototypes of my product. I've been posting all around online, talking to people in person, I've figured out that there is a genuine interest in what I've made, and people would buy it. That is all great.

Now I've already talked to manufacturers, in order to figure out how much to set my goal for, and get a rough idea on landed costs, etc.

My problem is pricing the product is stressing me out. It is unique, and I have no doubt people would want to buy it, but at what price point? The problem is I'm entering a space where mass manufacturing has made products in this category ridiculously cheap. So now I stress out that even though people will want this, they may not necessarily want it at the price I have to list it at. I've asked around to see if people would pay the price I'm listing, and many say yes of course, but the problem is that's just lip service, and until they actually put the money down you have to take those comments with a grain of salt.

Obviously as with anything if I'm successful in my first run, I can scale my batches up and bring the price point down, but I'm worried that my price in my first run will be so high it will scare most people away, and I will never have the chance to get to that second batch.

Has anyone had similar anxieties when launching a product? What was the end result? Were your worries proven right? Were you pleasantly surprised that people were willing to pay the price you listed? Or did you end up taking a gamble, and going for a much larger initial batch in order to bring down your prices?

One thing that gives me some hope is scrolling through kickstarter I do see a lot of products that seem very highly priced for what they are, and many of these campaigns seem to have no trouble at all getting their backers. So maybe I'm just in my head about it, maybe people are willing to pay a little more to have something they can't buy off the shelf or on Amazon.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this stress, but I'd love to hear if anyone else has had similar stresses, and maybe some success stories, or even failure stories that taught you what not to do.