Ding, Ding, Ding!
We have a winner! Alert reader mwk found the wrong item in yesterday’s post:
1.55 days per puzzle, 0.644 puzzles per day.
What, you thought it was the presidential slash fiction thing? Pfft, that’s nothing compared to a math error.
Today’s Homestuck Kickstarter update is going to look at tiers and supporter counts. One may recall from when the goal was met back on 5 September, there was a breakdown on supporters. One may also recall that a day later, one of those $5000¹ backers bumped up to $10,000. I’d like to show what the numbers are like as this piece is being written; to make comparisons easier, I’ll be repeating the numbers from the 5th, with new values/items interleaved in boldface:
- Backers: 7701
- Backers: 12,369
- Total raised: $700,049
- Total raised: $1,229,969
- Dollars per backer: $90.95
- Dollars per backer: $99.44
- Dollars per hour: $21,819.60
- Dollars per hour: $5124.87
- $15 and up: 2118
- $15 and up: 3489
- $25 and up: 1693
- $25 and up: 2586
- $55 and up: 794
- $55 and up: 1152
- $80 and up: 280
- $80 and up: 406
- $105 and up (unlimited): 579
- $105 and up (unlimited): 793
- $105 and up (limited reward #1): 671 of 1000
- $105 and up (limited reward #1): 1202 of 1500
- $105 and up (limited reward #2): 132 of 1000
- $105 and up (limited reward #2): 187 of 1000
- $130 and up: 286
- $180 and up: 84
- $180 and up (reward #1): 195
- $180 and up (reward #2): 40
- $180 and up (reward #3): 107
- $255 and up (unlimited): 141
- $255 and up (unlimited): 165
- $255 and up (limited reward): 600 of 600
- $255 and up (limited reward): 700 of 700
- $330 and up: 52
- $405 and up (limited reward): 458 of 1000
- $405 and up (limited reward): 415 of 750
- $505 and up (limited reward): 309 of 750
- $1000 and up (limited reward): 80 of 100
- $5000 and up (limited reward): 3 of 25
- $5000 and up (limited reward): 2 of 25
- $10,000 and up (limited reward): 0 of 10
- $10,000 and up (limited reward): 2 of 10
- No reports of God Tier rewards 2 ($100K) through 6 ($1B) yet
- No reports of God Tier rewards 2 ($100K) through 6 ($1B) yet
Smart moves by Andrew Hussie and the Mysterious Kickstarting Genius advising him:
- Limited rewards at naturally-occurring popular tiers ($105, $255) were expanded to pull in more support (the latter of which was sold out, and then promptly did so again after expansion)
- New tier at $330 added, incrementally adding to the value of the unlimited $255 tier
- The popular but stalled limited reward at $405 was reduced from a limit of 1000 to 750, but tiers at $505 and $1000 incorporating the high-demand items from the $405 tier were added; although 43 backers dropped at the $405 level, there were nearly 400 backers added at those new, higher tiers for a net increase of nearly $220,000
- Recognition that this project doesn’t adhere to the normal rules of high-value tiers; as of this writing, 393 people have pledged $500 or more, for a total of $266,045, or 21.6% of all money raised from 3.2% of all backers
We’re a third of the way through the campaign, in the doldrums section where there’s little movement (relatively speaking — on the slowest full day of the campaign so far, Hussie raised more than $26,000), and the right tier adjustments could cause the sudden uptick that’s often seen on runaway successful Kickstarts. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quarter or more of the total raised in the last three or four days.
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¹ All dollar figures are in US currency.
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