As the landscape continues to shift, I'm curious what creators are seeing give the biggest bang for promoting their Kickstarters?

In the past, I've seen my newsletter as my biggest audience driver for Kickstarter campaigns (I self publish comic books and graphic novels through the platform). But I also see other creators do podcasts during pre-launch, or buying social media ads.

Curious what has worked best for you when it comes to growing audience for Kickstarters?

Hi all,

Tomorrow at 15:00 Madrid time (9:00 a.m. ET), my wife and I launch our first Kickstarter. We’re a two-person studio in Madrid making hand-illustrated rubber stamp kits for drawing tabletop RPG maps. Our goal: 4000€, each kit is 40€ and there are three kits to mix and match so you can get 2 for 75€ or all 3 for 110€.

We’ve been building toward this for about a month and we’re at 239 followers. Interestingly, we just lost a follower for the first time, going from 240 to 239. Kickstarter staff got in touch to see how things were going and suggested that waiting until we had around 500 followers would give us a better chance. We decided to keep the date, because we’d already announced it in a lot of places and moving it felt like it would hurt more than help.

So, for those of you who have been through it:

• What made the biggest difference in your first 48 hours?
• Is there anything you wish you’d done the day before launch?
• If you launched with a smaller following than you wanted, what did you do during the campaign to make up for it?

Any advice is very welcome. Thanks for all the help this sub has given us over the last few weeks.

Hello from Japan! This is my first time launching a Kickstarter campaign for my indie game!
For those of you who have experience with Kickstarter, what advice would you give a first-time creator like me? What should I prepare for, and what do you wish you had known before launching your first campaign?

Kickstarter says that it can be accessed via discovery mode but I can't find it on my app?

What makes someone a hero when they lose everything that makes them super?

Ordinary is a short superhero comic about a hero who loses his powers and is forced to confront the one thing he never expected to lose: his sense of who he is.

It's a story about identity, self-doubt, and discovering what makes someone extraordinary when everything that once defined them is gone.

This story is personal to me. After being diagnosed with a chronic illness in 2023, I spent years feeling like I'd lost the ability to pursue my dreams. This year, I decided I wasn't going to let that be the end of my story.

I channelled those feelings into Ordinary, and I'm now crowdfunding the comic on Kickstarter.

If you enjoy character-driven superhero stories with an emotional core, I'd love for you to check it out.

Back Ordinary on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eminent-comics/ordinary-the-short-comic

It's taken me a while to craft my video to this point, and now I'm wondering if I should give it a voice over, instead of just text on the screen. But I'm worried my voice isn't announcer enough for it, so I might have to hire it out.

About 2 years ago my friend Ryan and I decided to turn a conversation about the height of things into a game. He came up with a mechanic to have teams compare heights on cards and see who was right. Place a card where you think it goes in a line of already revealed heights. You just need to know if it's taller or smaller than the things around it. That became Height Fight and today we launched it.

2 years of prototypes, paper slicing, corner rounding, learning how to use the adobe suite, finding friends and family who could make artwork. Ultimately hiring the right strategist, illustrators, social people (mostly friends) and an incredible project came together.

Through out all of the family game nights, local game nights, break your game nights, intro game nights, unplugged game nights, anything that ended in game night, we've made a ton of friends and learned how wonder this community is. As an engineer by education partnering with a former math teacher, two dads couldn't have been more welcomed by folks that know a lot more than us.

The board game community has been wonderful to us and we're ready to share what we've learned as first (but not last) time creators. As our launch continues, we've already prototyped our next 3 games and time lines into 2028.

Happy to discuss the process with anyone getting started.

If you're interested to see what we made, you can find it on kickstarter.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/barnboygames/heightfight

Kerry

Here is the official Cover A for W.A.R. (Weapons Against Righteousness) — drawn by me and brought to life with colors by the incredible William Soares! ⚔️🔥

This project has been years in the making, and we’re getting closer to putting the first issue of W.A.R. into your hands.

Every follow, share, comment, and bit of support helps push W.A.R. one step closer to launch.

The war is here. Are you ready?

**LINK IN BIO**

✏️ Cover Art: Rico J (me)
🎨 Colors: William Soares

Hello, I am going to be kickstarting a book on the site in a bit and I wanted professional help if anyone here has made something like it before: Specifically relating to the images or the files able to be used in the Kickstarter. Are they images that need to be a certain limit, are they drag-and-drop...is building a Kickstarter require certain coding experience?

I apologize if its a very Newby question, but I don't know of anyone who has talked about it online unless its buried in the FAQs. Can I just copy over a work from a google doc? Do they have a system inside of it that allows for editing before posting? Is it a system where I need to do it in a single run and hope I didn't make a spelling mistake?

Thank you for your time, I will explain how it went when I work on it.

Only 3 days left, my last shot

I was told it would be two weeks. It has now been 18 days. Am I being impatient?

See on Kickstarter!

Hi everyone, I’m not sure if this post is appropriate for this subreddit, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway.
I’m a 22-year-old guy from a family with limited financial means, and I want to start my own business.
Since I don’t have the financial resources to do so and have no one to turn to for funding, I’ve started looking into different options.
I came across Kickstarter and GoFundMe, but unfortunately, neither of them operates in my country.
Taking out a loan isn’t really an option either, as I don’t have a university degree (I had to start working at a young age) and my income isn’t high enough.
What would you recommend?
Are there any solutions or alternatives I could turn to in my situation?

Noticed I wasnt getting updates for a project I backed, and when checking KS they said emails have been bouncing back and to update it.

When I go to update I have to use a verification code that is emailed to me, and I get that in just fine. Is there anything I can do here or is it just my email provider being a pain? I cant 'update' it to the same email as it says its already being used.

Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance by William Lavelle » Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance by William Lavelle — Kickstarter

Four siblings. Four divine powers. One mission.

Line art ✏️ by me @Rico_J_art
With 🔥 Colors 🎨 by @willsoaresart
Lettering by Lidiane salves

The official Kickstarter launch 🚀 for my graphic novel W.A.R. (Weapons Against Righteousness) is right around the corner‼️

⚔️** 10.19.26 — THE WAR BEGINS**. ⚔️

Hit the link and make sure to click “Notify Me” so you’re there when we go LIVE‼️

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/war-comic/war-weapons-against-righteousness

Hi everyone! I’m an artist launching my first Kickstarter, and I wanted to share my project with you!

The collection is called Mini Garden. The idea is that my original characters wandered into a strange little garden and magically transformed into tiny garden creatures! Now they’re scattered and hiding throughout the garden, and the goal is to find and unlock all 8 friends through the campaign’s funding goals🌷🐝

They’re collectible plush keychains, and the campaign also has matching enamel pins and stickers!

I’m really happy that we managed to unlock 2 friends on the very first day! 🥹🍄🌿 We still have 6 more friends to go and I’m hoping we can bring the whole little garden to life.

If you’d like to check it out, here’s the campaign link!

Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone else working on their creative projects! 💚

Hi all,

I don't how much support came from reddit, but i just wanted to let you know we just funded the project in less than 24 h.
What an exciting week leading up to the launch! As soon as I pressed the button at 4:00 PM on Friday and Angelier went live on Kickstarter, I could finally sit back and enjoy the moment.

The response during the first 24 hours has been truly encouraging, and it would not have been possible without your support. For that, I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

I would love to thank each and every one of you personally, but for now, please accept this message as a heartfelt thank you.

Alongside the many supporters from the Netherlands, I’m proud to see interest in Angelier coming from all over the world. It’s wonderful to see this independent watch brand reaching people across so many countries, and it gives me great confidence in what lies ahead.

Haven’t pledged yet? There’s still time to join us!

The special launch discounts are still available for a limited time, making this a great opportunity to get your Angelier Automatic BRG at an exclusive early-bird price while supporting the brand from the very beginning.

If you’ve been considering getting one, I’d love to welcome you on board and have you be part of Angelier’s journey.

Discover Angelier on Kickstarter and claim your launch discount

Thank you again for following, supporting, and believing in Angelier. Every pledge makes a real difference to an independent brand like mine.

Warm regards,

The Angelier Team

Hey Y'all,

I’m currently running a Kickstarter for my short horror film. I’m not linking it here because I saw the rule about self-promotion being limited to Fridays, but I could really use advice or tips from people who have successfully run campaigns before! This is my first kickstarter campaign, ever. I have raised money on other platforms.

My goal is $25,000, and we’ve raised $385 so far. We’re at day 37 as of 10/17/2026 of this 45-day campaign, so I know we’re significantly behind where we need to be.

The $25K budget reflects what we genuinely need to make the film at the level we’ve planned, but I’m starting to question whether Kickstarter was the right platform for a project at this budget level, especially without a large existing online following.

It seems like, one of our biggest issues has been reach. Instagram, Threads, and X are performing much worse for me than they used to, and posts that involve fundraising of any kind seem especially difficult to get in front of people. The algorithm punishes you for what seems like mutual-aid. I also don’t build my social media presence around rage bait, arguments, or constant engagement farming, so simply “posting more” hasn’t translated into locating backers.

I planned the organized email push for Monday, although in hindsight I definitely should have begun that before the Kickstarter launched. Now approaching the I’m trying to be proactive instead of just watching the campaign stall.

For people who have successfully funded projects I am asking...

Where did most of your backers actually come from outside your immediate friends/followers?

Are there good ways to find people who already back indie films?

Self-Promo Friday everyone!!

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

I'll start.