Just hear me out on this one: why don't all of us who are able back each other's Kickstarter campaigns with $1 pledges? I mean seriously, wouldn't it be better to have like 50 backers for $1 each rather than zero backers for $50???

Obviously if you are really hard up for money and need to choose between feeding your children or feeding some stranger's Kickstarter, you should definitely choose your children. But for the rest of us, why not just make that $1 pledge? Seems like an easy win for everyone involved. You feel good because you back some tiny underperforming Kickstarter campaign, that campaign feels great because someone cared enough to click the pledge button. It's a win-win. You don't even have to believe in the campaign or want the product that is being presented, it's more of a hey bro, I see you and I appreciate your struggle sort of thing.

And yeah before someone asks, I do make the effort to back all the campaigns I see that aren't 10,000% funded or backed by some multi-billion dollar multinational corporation.

So yeah, what do you all think about the $1 pledge?

Hi everyone! Happy Friday (and thanks for the opportunity to self-promote today!)

My creative-partner Sid and I have launched our pre-launch page for our children's book, Eldric the Wizard and the Helpful New Neighbour. The book is intended to be the first of what we hope can become a larger series, dubbed The Village at the Crossroads.

I'm a dad, and a fantasy lover. However, when I started really searching for high-fantasy children's books that I could use to introduce my kids to the sort of worlds I love, I really couldn't find a product that I felt did the trick. Luckily, one of my closest and nerdiest buddies is the creative director of a marketing firm, and a fantastic digital artist. He agreed to illustrate the story. The book is around 1,500 words and 25 illustrated pages, and takes 10-15 minutes to read. We are expecting it to slide onto the bookshelves of kids aged 4 to 8.

Our manuscript has been professionally edited and fully illustrated, and next week we will fully launch our campaign to fund a print run. We're hopeful that there are others out there who have been looking for this sort of book, and if so, we have more manuscripts and character ideas in the tank. The fantasy genre provides so many opportunities for future characters. Elves and Dwarves, Dragons and Unicorns, Bards and Blacksmiths... we'd love to create more characters to populate the Village!

Our first story is about Eldric the Wizard, a Gandalf or Merlin-like presence in the Village. As the only magic user, he is incredibly important and holds a position of respect and leadership among his friends and neighbours. Eldric and his sidekick Clifflet are integral to village life. However, when one day a Sorcerer moves to town, Eldric suddenly finds himself questioning his importance. This bit of jealousy causes Eldric a lot of inner turmoil.

Happy to answer any questions I can, but for anyone who is willing to at least sign up for notifications for when our campaign goes live, we'd be extremely grateful. The best thing that could happen is that we get flagged and promoted by Kickstarter because we have a strong batch of followers to start. If anyone is interested in purchasing a copy of the book, that's obviously even better.

You can find our pre-launch page by CLICKING HERE and if you're interested in learning more about the larger project and what we hope the series can become, you can VISIT OUR WEBSITE BY CLICKING HERE.

I've attached some of Sid's art as a teaser, and there is a bit more on our website and Instagram page.

Thanks so much for your interest and consideration!

Self-Promo Friday everyone!!

Lets use my comments feed down below, I wanna know what your stuff is about :)

I'll start.

Hi everyone!

I'm Maurizio, an independent game creator from Italy, and I'd like to share something I've been working on for the past few years.

It started with a simple question:

What if your fantasy football team could actually step onto a board game pitch and play?

That idea became AILEVEN, a tactical football board game combining physical tabletop gameplay with a connected digital universe.

The game features a football pitch, robot player tokens, tactical cards, team-building mechanics, and an auction system.

Players don't just manage their squads — they actually play the match, making tactical decisions, competing for possession, creating attacks, and trying to score.

Alongside the physical game, we're developing a digital platform where AI Agents can evolve, opening up new possibilities beyond the tabletop.

One of the biggest challenges has been balancing these two worlds while making sure the physical game remains enjoyable on its own.

After years of development and playtesting, we're now preparing our first Kickstarter campaign.

Next week, October 22–25, we'll be exhibiting at SPIEL Essen 2026, where visitors can try the game in person.

Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is already live:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aileven/aileven-tcg

I'd really appreciate your feedback.

What would make you interested in backing a football board game that combines physical gameplay with a digital universe?

Thanks for reading!

Our concept is simple: we take small, messy, ordinary objects from daily life and cast them into wearable art. A tangled USB-C cable, a burnt match, a snapped pencil - tiny unglamorous items most of us toss straight in the bin. We keep all their raw, imperfect shapes exactly as they are to turn them into jewellery. The whole idea leans into using Al to craft a totally unique piece for every person.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marchiamea/marchia-mea-anti-luxury-collection?ref=discover_saved_projects&category_id=267

Hi r/kickstarter,

We are sharing RAMDeck, a hardware hub and cluster orchestrator designed to solve AI memory limits by repurposing the idle computers people already own.

Watch our live cluster test loading a 60 GB 120B model across 6 mismatched devices: https://youtu.be/ok3nYjxhc1w

The Problem:

Running modern, capable AI models (such as 32B, 70B or 120B parameters) locally requires 24 GB to 80+ GB of memory. Buying enterprise GPUs like the RTX 4090 or high-end Mac Studios costs thousands of dollars. At the same time, most households and small offices have 2 to 4 older laptops, mini PCs, or desktops sitting idle in closets or on desks.

The Solution:

RAMDeck connects your existing devices over local Gigabit Ethernet or Wi-Fi, partitions a model's neural network layers across each computer's physical memory, and orchestrates them into a unified local AI server.

Instead of needing a single expensive motherboard, the cluster evaluates the model sequentially: Computer A evaluates layers 1–20, Computer B evaluates layers 21–40, and only compact activation vectors (~650 KB per token) cross the local network during generation.

Verified Hardware & Live Proof:

We are launching with working hardware and software that has been running live for months:

• 120B Model Cluster: Pooled memory across 6 mismatched devices (an RTX 3060 mini PC, a 12GB Acer laptop, an M4 Mac mini, an M3 MacBook, a 2017 Intel MacBook, and a Samsung Galaxy S24+ phone) to run a 60 GB model (gpt-oss-120b) through a 40-hour continuous stress test at 1.37 tok/s.
• Self-Healing: When a laptop lid was closed or a phone dropped off Wi-Fi, the orchestrator automatically redistributed the remaining layers without crashing the active session.
• Office Privacy Demo: Indexed 14 complex legal documents across 3 office PCs with 0 bytes transmitted outside the LAN, eliminating cloud privacy risks (ABA Opinion 512).
• Honest Speeds: 30B MoE 39t tok/s, 40B MoE at 16 tok/s, and 120B at 1.37 tok/s.

Transparency & Code:

• The core clustering engine is source-available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with a Commons Clause restriction (free to inspect, run, and audit on your own hardware).
• We are offering Early Bird turnkey hardware hubs starting at $109 (retail $199) for users who want a plug-and-play appliance rather than configuring headless machines manually.
• Campaign Page: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/trademav/ramdeck-pool-your-ram-run-bigger-ai
• Full Engineering Benchmarks & Specs: https://ramdeck.com/how-to-pool-ram-from-old-pcs/
• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/trademav/ramdeck-core-public

We would love to hear the community's thoughts, questions on the hardware/networking architecture, or feedback on our crowdfunding roadmap!

Hi everyone, I’m part of the team at CEPHALON. We’re building Lucy AI Studio, a cube-shaped local AI computer with five SATA drive bays for private storage. Our Kickstarter launch is planned for October 20.

The design brings together the models you run, the tools your agents use, and the files they work with.

One workflow we’re building around is keeping project documents on the machine, using a compatible local model to search and summarise them, and saving the results back into the same workspace. A configured agent can also continue a task there after your laptop disconnects, provided Lucy AI Studio and the required services remain running.

Other setups can support ComfyUI image and video creation, coding tools such as Hermes, Codex and Claude Code, shared family files, and media playback. Remote access and smart-home control depend on the messaging channels, devices and integrations configured.

The reason for combining compute and storage is to give those workflows a dedicated place to run, with access from your other devices.

We’re planning three configurations:

• Lucy AI Studio Pro Version: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB RAM and a 256GB NVMe system drive. US$799 Super Early Bird; MSRP US$899.
• Lucy AI Studio Max Version: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB unified memory and a 1TB NVMe system drive. US$2,799 Super Early Bird; MSRP US$3,999.
• Lucy AI Studio Ultra Version: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, 192GB unified memory and a 1TB NVMe system drive. US$3,799 Super Early Bird; MSRP US$4,999.

All three include five SATA data-drive bays, supporting up to 100TB of total installed data-drive capacity. Data drives are sold separately.

Current evaluation units run Ubuntu. Lucy AIOS and the companion app are still in development. Workflows require compatible software and configuration, and cloud-connected tools retain their own account and billing requirements.

Here’s our Kickstarter pre-launch page, where you can set a launch reminder.

For people already using a NAS or local AI at home: would you combine them in one machine, or keep them separate? I’d like to hear the practical reason for your choice.

The story is about waking up and having to go through a sudden change. Featuring the talents of 13 artists.

Pledging at least $10 will also enter you for a drawing for 2 tickets to LegoLand California.

Pledge here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit-comic-1/bit-a-vampire-comic-about-change-with-a-coven-of-artists?ref=profile_created&category_id=250

The Alliance is back! Picking up from the explosive ending of Astro Alliance #1, the man known as Stareth Gaten has attacked Captain Saturn and has come to take Princess Eclipto-Zarra to The Pillars of Creation, the mythical birthplace of the cosmos, against her will! Is he friend or foe?! Will they come together before the terrifying Cronos finds them?! Find out in this 28-page action-packed, thrill ride!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1052635632/astro-alliance-2

The essence of the game is a choose-your-own-adventure style of visual novel, where your choices, successes and failures shape a heavily branching story. You pick one of six starting characters and guide them through their late childhood choices, and then try and rise in the criminal underworld.

The genre has been growing over the past few years with titles like Slay The Princess, A Legionary's Life, The Banner Saga, and the Citizen Sleeper series. I wanted to tell the story of life in the urban cores around the time I was growing up, and provide a completely novel experience to this group of gamers. The existing demo (free on Steam now!) features a great deal of new ideas around storytelling and game mechanics, as well as familiar concepts from the genre.

If you loved shows like The Wire, Breaking Bad, or games like GTA or Schedule I, pledge now and help make it a reality!

The official trailer for the demo!

Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obverse-games/the-crown-0/

Youtube: (Many streamers and other gameplay clips!)
https://www.youtube.com/@Obverse-heads

Check out Kaisa learning about hustling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6UVNfQXzg

The Somnambulant Tarot Live on kickstarter until Nov 5th

The Somnambulant Tarot is a dark-aesthetic surreal abstract re-imagining of the iconic RWS tarot deck.

Tarot is a tool, it is a diagram, it is a portal. Explore the depths of human psyche

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/star-anvil-studios/the-secret-world-europe?ref=3kxnme

The Secret World Europe is launching on October 27th. New Archetypes, Cryptids, Locations, Adventures, and more! Follow now to help us build momentum and hit some cool stretch goals!

Hi,

I'm launching a Startup Card game called Unicorn where people challenge each other to make the most valuable startup possible!

Do follow on Kickstarter if you're interested!

Twist the top knob to set 5, 10, 15, 25, or 45 minutes. It stays still while you focus, then uses its six little legs to walk in place when the countdown ends.
It gives you a fun, physical reminder without making you pick up your phone and risk getting distracted. StepTimer also comes in six colors, with magnetic ears and optional hats and a plant-pot rack.
More than 290 backers have joined us, and we’re approaching our $20,000 stretch goal, which will upgrade every backer’s shell to injection-molded ABS at no extra cost.
Which color would you put on your desk?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/palmblock/steptimer-a-walking-timer-buddy-for-your-desk?ref=cxx5be

Sharing our campaign on promo Friday. Before building anything, I spent months talking with towing companies, salons, contractors and restaurants. I started out pitching websites, and most of them passed: they relied on word of mouth or didn't have the budget. The line I kept hearing was "I just want my phone to ring."

The same problems kept showing up: - Google profiles were half filled out, with a handful of reviews and barely any photos. - Their website was outdated, or they didn't have one at all. - When someone nearby searched for what they do, they weren't on the first page.

So we built SitePeek, an affordable marketing system that gets local businesses onto the first page of Google and brings in more calls. It does two things. Local SEO gets the business found: we build out the Google Business Profile and give them a free, modern website. Then conversion and lead follow-up turn those visitors into actual calls and customers.

With one early client, a towing company, tracked calls went from 37 to 54 and their Google Business Profile views nearly tripled, their best numbers since they've been in business. It's one business, so I see it as a real example, not a promise.

We launched on Kickstarter this week. It's all-or-nothing, with a $1,500 goal over 15 days, and rewards start at $25: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford

For other creators here: how far ahead of launch did you start building your audience, and would you start earlier next time?

Please check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadnight-baturner/dreadnight-prelude-to-kill

Happy Friday, everyone. I haven’t promoted my game on this sub much, but since we’re one week out and (decently) close to our funding goal, I thought I’d put it out there.

Sands of Crime is a push-your-luck dice and card game where desert gangs compete to steal and spend loot. All the art was done by my wife. Hope you’ll check it out.

Happy Friday! We're back with a new and improved self-promotion Kickstarter post. Thank you to everyone who took the time to look at our campaign over the past week and especially to those who gave us so much incredible feedback. We were able to fold some of that feedback into our campaign over the past couple days and it seems to have made an immediate impact! We will keep working to refine the campaign and work more of your feedback and suggestions into our Kickstarter. Thank you!

One of the biggest and most exciting changes we made to the campaign was to introduce BOOSTER PACKS! Yes, you read that right, booster packs are now available as an add-on at all reward levels when you back our campaign. The booster add-on is a 3-pack of 15 card booster packs, and the booster box contains 30 booster packs.

Back to the campaign itself: we're raising funds to pay for a fat juicy print run of cards, with the reward tiers being complete, pre-made decks that are ready to play straight out of the box. If gruesome monsters playing sports sounds like something that's up your alley, then by all means please click the link and share with your friends. But hey, even if it's not up your alley, feel free to share our campaign with your friends anyway!

A little more about the game: Monsterball is a collectable trading card game of both skill and luck designed for two players. The game is quick to learn, but with a unique set of mechanics that gets away from the played-out power/toughness/energy cost trope that defines so many TCGs and a battle system that will keep you on your toes no matter who you're playing against. You can find a quick and dirty overview of the game on our Kickstarter page and find an ever-growing collection of more in-depth tutorials and gameplay videos on our YouTube channel.

Please! visit and share our Kickstarter campaign, we really appreciate all your feedback and support!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sanpoustudios/monsterball-a-collectible-trading-card-game

Disclosure: I'm one of the actual creators of Monsterball, not just some schmuck from a marketing and consulting firm. This game came from my brain, I play it pretty much every day with people in my community and I genuinely appreciate your support! I'm sharing this as a creator and human being.

Hello fellow adventurers,

Today we are excited to share another extended preview of Mythological Items, now live on Kickstarter!

This is our new D&D 5E and 2024-compatible manual dedicated entirely to magic items inspired by myths, legends, and ancient stories from around the world.

Inside the book, you will find 300+ mythological magic items, including weapons, armor, wondrous items, and scaling items designed to grow alongside your characters and campaigns.

Our goal with Mythological Items is to create more than a simple collection of treasure. Each item is designed to feel like part of a myth: something that can serve as a reward, a quest hook, or even the center of an entire adventure.

The book includes items inspired by many different mythological traditions, including Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Asian, American, Roman, Mesopotamian, African, and other mythologies from across the world. Whether you want divine weapons, cursed artifacts, heroic relics, monster-themed treasures, or legendary items tied to ancient stories, this book is built to bring myth directly to your table.

The Kickstarter page includes a full presentation of the project, several previews, and a free 30-page PDF preview showing a sample of the content from the book.

You can also find many of our other manuals in PDF and high-quality print editions, with special prices currently available both for Mythological Items and for all our other releases.

You can visit the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mythoschronicles/300-mythological-items-for-5e-and-2024

Thank you again for your support. We hope to see you on our journey!

Hi all! I've been part of this subreddit for a while (though not necessarily on this account), and it's finally time to share our game with you!

Period Party is a bold experiment to see whether we can use the fun and power of play to open up more conversations about menstruation.

It's not a game just for girls or teenagers, and it's not intended to be an educational game. It's a chaotic trick-taking card game for everyone, including people who might not think this topic has anything to do with them! We've put so much thought into both the gameplay and the world of Menstru-Nation, where 25 fantasy characters have their own period stories to tell.

Making a game about periods hasn't been easy. There's been a real uphill battle. Because to challenge the stigma around periods, we have to confront that stigma ourselves first.

Additionally, we hope Period Party can inspire others to pursue their own unusual ideas, even when those ideas seem a little wild!

We're currently live on Kickstarter, and we'd love for you to check it out! The campaign is ending in 6 days (October 22nd).

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thunderday/period-party?ref=bzdr5m

Please let us know if you have any questions about our game or our journey!

*Re-posted this post due to a image issue.

Hi everyone! We’re AttaEle, a small home-fragrance brand preparing to launch our new candle warmer, the AttaEle A02, on Kickstarter.

We love scented candles, but we kept running into the same problems with traditional candle warmers: limited candle compatibility, uneven fragrance distribution, and designs that didn’t quite fit into our living spaces.

So we created A02, a flame-free candle warmer featuring:

• An ultra-quiet built-in fan that helps distribute fragrance throughout the room
• A spacious interior with wooden risers for different candle sizes
• Continuous brightness and heat adjustment
• Multiple timer settings
• Optional remote control with the A02 Smart version
• Customizable magnetic decorations
• A distinctive house-inspired metal design

We’re planning to launch on Kickstarter soon, and we’d really appreciate your feedback. If A02 sounds like something you’d enjoy using—or if you simply want to follow our journey—you can follow the project on our Pre-launch Page.

Thank you for taking a look! We’d also love to hear what matters most to you when choosing a candle warmer.

Full disclosure, this is my own book.

Carl Karadonis lost everything, his gym, his family, himself, and ended up invisible on the streets of New York. One night he goes into the East River. What comes out has a sentient shark for a left arm.

We hit 41% in the first 12 hours. Rewards start at $10.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manphibian/manphibian-1?ref=codxyj

Happy to answer any questions.

Hi! My name is Kuda. I'm an animation director originally from Zimbabwe.

My sister and I launched the campaign for our Action Fantasy anime pilot over a week ago. 

It centers 18 year old Shingai, who enters the first ever tournament of totems to prove himself. But on the FIRST DAY of this televised event... MURDER. 

Now Shingai has to fight 9 of the most dangerous Totem Users in the country - friend and foe - and one of them is the killer!

Adapting it from our published Manga, we have an extended edition of the first Volume in one of the first tiers to get you into the story before watching the pilot.

We're 31% funded so far with 66 backers out of 500+ followers.

Join us in making history by backing OUR CAMPAIGN

You can also find the full trailers linked on our campaign page

Here's the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jacoposchena/the-rescue-ledger

I flaired this as self-promotion to avoid any issues.

How would you approach marketing a project that (hopefully) sounds well thought out and sensible after reading the campaign, but seems absolutely insane at a glance?

I don't want to lean too much on Piql, the company that will take care of the technical aspects of the archive (it's the company behind the Arctic World Archive). They work with UNESCO and other high-profile clients, and I have no intention of "affecting" their public perception until my project is more widely accepted, as they've been absolutely amazing with me.

Meta ads have been OK (great CTR,but that's expected given the bonkers premise), but I need to find a different way to bring awareness. Any ideas?

Besides that, do you have any feedback on how the campaign is structured?

Thanks!