Self-Promo Friday everyone!!

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

I'll start.

Hey everyone! I know questions in this vein are asked all the time, and I apologize for the repetition. I'm not really asking how to fix this, but more ao wondering if this is the new normal.

This is my 3rd campaign. I'm an indie author, and special editions tend to do very well on kickstarter. Both of my previous campaigns (one in summer 2024, one summer 2025), funded within 12 hours max. My funding goals were both lower tha my current one, but I saw a steady stream of initial backers on day 1-3, had the middle lull, and then had an influx of backers the final few days. This was normal, this is what you could expect.

This time around, I have raised 50% of my campaign on day 1 and now, on day 2, ot has been crickets. I have had 2 pledges early this morning, and nothing else. In the past, day 2 was almost equally as active as day 1. It was very formulaic.

What I am wondering is if backer habits have changed, if launching in a different season has an impact, or any other factors that would be explaining this change.

We had a moderately successful first Kickstarter and are following it up with Number 2, using constructive feedback from the last one.

The idea is the same: we want to make home labs cheaper, neater, and more efficient. A home lab is when you run server software in your office or home instead of on the cloud. (For example, moving off Google Drive and saving stuff to a Xerxes in your closet.)

The page is kind of an information salad right now, and it's been hard to communicate enough information to techno users without overstimulating more casual users.

Please give us your feedback and it would be super helpful if you tag yourself as techno or casual. Cheers and thank you.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1907647187/xerxes-homelab

In Delivery Issues, you do much more than simply deliver packages. It’s a race against time as you meet zany characters, outsmart and outmaneuver befuddling obstacles, and take on a mysterious enemy that will make this otherwise easy job rather difficult.

Delivery Issues is a 2D action platformer with a Y2K aesthetic, so if you like retro style games or 2D platformers, Delivery Issues is the game for you!

Check out our kickstarter to learn more about the project and support the development of our game!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whimindie/delivery-issues/rewards#reward-UmV3YXJkLVVtVjNZWEprTFRFeE1qVXlNVGsw

Play the free demo on steam ➡️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318580/Delivery_Issues/

Watch the trailer on youtube ➡️ https://youtu.be/knzMOeUus9w?is=WCMg_glDcT0ypxhD

Hey everyone,

I've been thinking about launching a tech product on Kickstarter in the future, but there's something I'm trying to figure out.

How do you actually get people to find your project when you're just starting out and don't have a big audience?

Do you guys usually build an audience before launching, use social media, paid ads, or just rely on Kickstarter itself?

Would love to hear what actually worked for you, especially if you've launched a physical product before.

Book is like 95% written and needs edits. Art is in various stages of commission. How the hell do I make the page look nice.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deathandthewerewolf/into-the-night-a-goth-punk-city-monster-rpg

The main reason some people come here is to promote their projects and hopefully find backers, but does that actually happen? Or are we all just here hoping to get our own projects promoted?

Have any of you actually become part of a community you discovered here and backed one of its projects?

Hi everyone,

My wife and I are a two-person studio in Madrid, and on Tuesday, October 20, we’re launching our first Kickstarter: Kingdoms of Ink.

It’s a set of rubber stamp kits for drawing tabletop RPG world maps. There are three kits of 16 stamps each: high fantasy, a post-apocalyptic wasteland and an 80s small town. The idea is to build the world beyond the dungeon right at the table, stamping villages, forests, ruins and roads as the players explore, instead of spending hours prepping a map they might never visit.

Every stamp starts as a hand drawing. We trace it digitally, laser cut it and mount it on bevelled, varnished wood. The kits work on plain paper or hex paper, and you can colour the maps afterwards with watercolours or markers.

Some of you gave us feedback on our page a couple of weeks ago, and it really helped. Thank you. We’re at 220 followers now, and the goal is €4,000, with delivery planned for February 2027.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, you can follow the project here and get a notification on launch day:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdomsofink/kingdoms-of-ink

Happy to answer any questions about the stamps, the process or running a first campaign as a tiny team.

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great week!

Last week, we launched Numeraeon: Tales of the Old East on Kickstarter! After a great week, we have unlocked our first stretch goal!

What is Numeraeon? Numeraeon: Tales of the Old East is a 5E-Compatible supplement for DnD, but it is also so much more. Years of research went into examining frontier legends, urban legends that shape our world, and, of course, cryptids. Our campaign offers a digital PDF and physical case-bound book with interior end-sheets for Numeraeon: Tales of the Old East. However, we also offer seven physical models depicting our reimagined cryptids and urban legends, a commemorative coin, cloth fabric canvas poster, and more!

It should be noted that everything that we are offering has been prototyped and produced already in advance of our campaign.

My company is a start-up and 5E gave me a space to tell stories, I am so grateful for the community support and everyone who has backed the project. We aren't a big company or anything like that, and years of work went into preparing Numeraeon for Kickstarter.

We truly hope that you will come celebrate Halloween with us on Discord and check out project on Kickstarter.

If you want to support us here is a link to our campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jesseriah/numeraeon-tales-of-the-old-east

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

Last chance to get the Moon Dance expansion for free when you back at the Early Bird Tier!

Overview

Phase is a board game where you match and sequence phases of the moon. It's an abstract, tile-laying, area control game. If you get the mechanics of Uno and Othello, you can play this. Friendly for the casual players, families, and board-game enthusiasts, alike.

✨NEW✨

• Larger base deck with a new Lunatic card that allows lines to be blocked on the board
• Board design is now edge-to-edge
• Concise and illustrated player-aid cards
• Updated artwork

HIGH REPLAYABILITY:

• Lunatic Cards are drawn at random, increasing variability and strategy
• SIX different boards to choose from with the ability to mix and match sections.

EXPANSIONS:

• Zodiac Expansion and Moon Dance Expansion add new Lunatic Cards
• additional token colors so you can play up to SIX people
• additional boards to expand the stage or add variability

LINKS:

Kickstarter - 76% Funded and GROWING 🙌

Bluesky - progress, artwork, updates 👀

Rulebook - read up on the rules 🔍

Video Review - review of the demo ▶️

Website - if you want the lore

Grab your Scales and the Mutant Rising merch now on #Kickstarter! 🐍

Wave 1 includes: Scales, Badger, Mantus, Wolfclaw, Beetle and Sephira.

Each 5” figure comes with action accessories and 13 points of articulation.

What’s a toy line without deluxe action vehicles? The Scales Megaboard and Badgers Scoot-Shooter are here to complete the wave!

Don’t forget to add some Muta-Slime! These classic styled mini tubs of slime are a perfect addition for your Scales figures.

Limited edition plushies are also available! We have Scales and Sephira.

Limited edition Glow-In-The-Dark Scales is available only in the collectors bundle!

We’ve added all the new bundles to the page 💥

WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🙏🏼

We’re not asking for hundreds of thousands. We need 15K to get production going! Please pledge now to help us bring this line to life. Even if you can make a donation, it would help bring us closer to funding.

This is for the kids of today and for the big kids of yesterday!

Look up Scales and the Mutant Rising on @kickstarter and pledge now 🤘🏼 on link in bio 🔗

Thank you so much for the support!

Hey everyone. I'm Bruce, independent playing card creator. My fourth Kickstarter, Dream Weaver, just funded on day 7 and we're now chasing a CA$6,500 stretch goal.

What makes it different: 300gsm black core stock, holographic film on every card front and back, 56 custom cards, holographic embossed tuck with a custom printed interior. There's also a limited 100-deck gilded edition with multi-colored holographic edges, individually numbered.

The stretch goal unlocks a custom half-brick box designed by @joefdsgn. Free for 6-deck backers, two free for 12-deck backers.

Happy to answer any questions about the design process, the holographic stock, or running a playing card Kickstarter.

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

In this story, a female Satan wants to make Hell livable, but opposing forces seek to destroy her! This is the final issue and issues 1-4 will still be available during the campaign. Click the link to get notified when we launch! Art and color by Roberto Jaramillo and written by Tim Guest.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/saltaracomics/hell-her-way-5-a-mature-comic-book-series-get-1-4-too

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.

Powerscape is a comic book over 20 years in the making from 65 Dollar Funeral Productions about a future on an Earth ravaged from war and climate change, where super-powered athletes compete on behalf of a few remaining cities in a game for life-depending energy. 

Exploring the role of spectacle in an empire, Powerscape tells the story of how an almost inevitable power structure can still collapse and which sides of our humanity is needed afterwards to pick up the pieces... 

Our team is attempting to finish Issue #4 and condense all current books into a Volume I 120+ page trade paperback graphic novel, complete with bonus micro-chapters, maps, infographics, BTS art, and more! 

Click notify me on launch and you'll be the first to know of when our crowdfunding campaign begins, as well as secret rewards we'll deliver only through your Kickstarter sign-up. 

See rewards and more on our Kickstarter pre-launch page here!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/65dollarfuneral/powerscape-volume-i-graphic-novel

Hey r/kickstarter, I’m part of the team at Magic Wonders. We’ve been building Wand One for a while, and it’s about to go live.

It’s an AI-powered smart wand for dueling friends, exploring live adventures, controlling your smart home, and making music.

A few things you can do with it:

• Duel a friend in real time, or practice solo and level up
• Step into live adventures and quests
• Cast spells to control your lights, music, and smart home (works with Alexa, IFTTT, and 1,000+ apps and services)
• Make music in the air
• and much more!

Along the way we won an award in Meta’s Horizon Start Developer Competition, joined the NVIDIA Inception program, got backing from ANII, and were featured in Forbes.

We’re launching on Kickstarter soon. If it looks fun, you can follow the pre-launch page and tap “Notify me on launch” to be first in when we go live (early-bird pricing for launch-day backers):
👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magicwonders/wand-one-by-magic-wonders-where-magic-comes-to-life?tab=prelaunch-story

Happy to answer anything in the comments, and we’d love your honest feedback before launch!

Support our Horror Short Film - HEARSE

So, we made a horror movie that you really want to see and we really want you to see it but we need your help to make it happen.

HEARSE - a young man is being followed by a hearse, walking after midnight. But that’s not the only thing watching him from the dark.

We would greatly appreciate your help.

HEARSE - A Horror Short Film

Hi! 😊

The Kickstarter campaign for The Cube is now live! — an adult cyberpunk graphic novel set in an AI neon dystopia where emotions are harvested as energy. A few pages here and some cover ideas.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erosetti-press/the-cube-vol-1-erotic-dystopian-graphic-novel

Thank you so much for your support, and welcome to The Cube! ❤️

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!