Strangest Crowdfunding Campaigns That Succeeded
Spleenz
Published
09/01/2015
The strangest crowdfunding campaigns that actually succeeded.
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Orbiting Tardis: 3,231 fans of Doctor Who contributed $88,880 to send a Tardis (the Doctor’s time traveling phone booth) into real-life outer space. How exactly is this going to work? -
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The i+ case: This phone case invention was made mostly of aluminum, and they raised over $85,000. Turns out, it blocked a lot of the cellular/Wi-Fi signals of the users’ phones. -
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World’s largest jockstrap: Michael Barrett raised $850 in order to pay the Guinness Book of Records to measure the gigantic undergarment he made to set a world record. -
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A chicken burrito: Noboru Bitoy asked for $8 on Kickstarter to buy a Chipotle burrito and graph his enjoyment of it. How much did he raise? $1,050. Because of the 13,000% success rate of his original ask, he kicked it up a notch and filmed himself eating a burrito while skydiving. -
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Combat Kitchenware: This campaign was made for all of you that feel like going medieval on your omelette. The line of weaponized cooking utensils became a reality after the Kickstarter campaign raised over $46,000. -
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Sacco: Keeping in tune with the whole medieval feel, this leather sack holds your gold coins (or spare change) in a much more fashionable way than your pocket. Hipsters everywhere united and donated $14,650 for their chance to own one. -
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Cloud project: Kurt Braunohler had a vision to write “How Do I Land” in the sky with an airplane. He raised over $6,000 and did just that. -
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Greek funding: Thom Feeney decided to help Greece out of its debt by opening an IndieGoGo campaign. His humorous effort to raise 1 million Euros ($1.8 million) to save the country from default actually raised almost 300,000 Euros ($338,000), most likely from people who knew he would never reach his goal. -
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Bug-A-Salt: This one began on IndieGoGo with a goal of $15,000.Lorenzo Maggiore wanted to produce a device to kill bugs in the most entertaining and non-toxic way possible: blasting them with salt with an assault weapon. He raised $577,636. -
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Remee: 6,557 people gave $572,891 to fund a fancy sleep mask embedded with six red lights. Bitbanger Labs laid out the science of lucid dreaming, and then offered a mask designed to take this science and trigger the unique dream state. They are still in business and sell the mask for $95. -
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World’s Most Super Amazing 100% Awesome Cat Calendar: The pitch was simple: ‘Do you enjoy photos of cats dressed up as magical creatures? Yes? Then we have something for you.’ Over 1,000 backers put up $25,183 to bring this magic to life. -
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POOP:The Game: It’s sort of like UNO, except you have to make fart noises when you play. They raised almost $12,000 on Kickstarter and have since come up with another sophisticated product, Poop in a Bag.
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