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Use @kickstarter to find awesome projects
By Steve Hopkins | July 19, 2010
Whilst I was away in London recently I was really chuffed to check into my email briefly and notice that Trade School, a project I had backed on Kickstarter, had reached it’s funding goal of $9000. I thought that was fantastic, and can’t wait to see another term happen.
I love the idea of Trade School, because it acts as a conduit for awesome people within their communities to come out of the woodwork and teach others how they do their ’stuff.’ You can see a list of people and classes that took place at Trade School last time around by visiting their website; classes like How to throw an arts festival for 1-3 days or Scrabble strategy for beginners. Trade School seems to straddle well the divide between learning things that are either work-based, or fun-based. The photo below comes from a class hosted by Ellie Irons called Drawing for Pleasure. Trade School is the sort of thing I imagine working really well at Donkey Wheel House, in Melbourne. Perhaps Kinfolk Cafe will adopt the idea? (wink wink).
But the real reason I loved seeing that Trade School got funded was because I am really falling in love with the global platform that Kickstarter is becoming. It is becoming a great way to find excellent slow projects that people are working on. Sometimes, finding interesting people doing funky, out-there, awesome projects can be tough. Now, Kickstarter has 10 of them every week! I’ll be backing more projects in the future and intend on posting those projects I back on this blog. In the meantime, if you’re looking for people doing awesome projects, start your search on Kickstarter
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July 26th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I need to get out and network with smart people more. Freelance work can be liberating but isolating as well. Kickstarter sounds like the way to go!
July 26th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
@Will, I feel you on that one. I’m a freelance writer (I work in the service industry part time as well) and I don’t leverage the mobility I actually have.
Easy to get engrossed in what you love to do and forget the outside world I guess :-/
July 26th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Getting bright enthusiastic people in one room, like the pic above, can yield incredible results.
We need to get a thinktank together and start solving some of these major world problems (lack of water, child poverty etc).
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Awesome post Steve. Love the photos, your insight and thanks for the linkages around future trends. Rock it out my friend.