Squatch hunt for Thursday - May 7th, 2015

Well, it's Thursday, again, and that means that it's time for another Squatch hunt.

This time around, we look at four projects from the Crafts section of Kickstarter, one of which is under the sub-category of Woodworking and another that is under the sub-category of Glass.

Kickstarter project creators are always on the prowl for advantages, in order to help their crowdfunding project succeed. However, where a lot of project creators go wrong is that they hit the launch button on their project too soon.

These Squatch Hunts continue to encounter a lot of projects launched prematurely. A lot of projects make the same mistakes as many crowdfunding projects that came before them. This indicates that many project creators are not really bothering with doing even a cursory amount of research, prior to hitting the launch button. This approach can easily lead to a crash trajectory, from a funding standpoint.

This week's Squatch Hunt selections are notable in that none of the four projects selected had project videos, at the time that I posted my predictions for them. If you're out there and you're reading this, keep in mind that your project can't get any kind of a backer of pledge boost from a video that doesn't exist.

If you're nervous or apprehensive about making a project video, while you never want to have a bad project video, what you want even less is to have no video, at all. A good project video can not only help you to meet your crowdfunding project's funding goal that you set for it, it can help you to exceed that goal. What that translates into is extra money for you, when all is said and done.

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Section: Woodworking
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Black Market Guitars

0 Backers
0% funded
$0.00 pledged of $10,000 goal
59 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Crafts
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Scorpion Custom Engraving - Motorcycle casings & parts

0 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $1,519 goal
29 days to go

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Glass
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: BustedBegonias seeks kiln

1 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $6,000 goal
29 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Crafts
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Fablossom Craft Kit: Design/Create Fabric Flower Accessories

 

0 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $6,000 goal
31 days to go 

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: SUCCEEDED

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Squatch Hunt for Thursday - April 30th, 2015

Squatch Kick presents to you this week's Squatch Hunt candidates, projects on Kickstarter that I have used the Kickstarter website's search functions to select for me using the Newest search option, that I might predict success or failure for these crowd funding projects, based upon what I see on their respective project pages during my initial visit to them.

Project pages can change, at any time, depending upon the whims and the motivation of the project creators. The point of these Squatch Hunts is not to explain why I think that a given project will fail or succeed, but rather, merely to try and predict the eventual outcome of crowdfunding campaigns, based upon the initial look and feel of the project pages and their respective videos, if there are any.

In other words, which projects have squatch and which ones don't. Squatch is that which makes your project page bigger or better - and thus, more likely to get funded.

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Section: Food
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Zappy Coffee Maker

0 Backers
0% funded
$0.00 pledged of $47,000 goal
59 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Food
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Twist Cupcakery

3 Backers
1% funded
$140 pledged of $6,000 goal
31 days to go

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: SUCCEEDED

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Section: Food
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: It's Time ........ for Nibbles Nibbles Nibbles NOSH!

1 Backers
0% funded
$100 pledged of $100,000 goal
29 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Food
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: The Dowling House Bar & Grill

 

0 Backers
0% funded
$0 pledged of $100,000 goal
59 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Squatch Hunt for Thursday - April 23rd, 2015

Today, I am going to try something new. Namely, I intend to pick a few projects from the Kickstarter website, sort them by "Newest" in their category, and make a prediction as to whether they will ultimately succeed or fail, based upon what I perceive to be the level of squatch and squatch activity that I detect on that first visit to their respective project pages.

It's not about hoping that anybody's project fails. In fact, I often encourage project creators to change their project pages, to revise them, to flesh them out, to imbue them with more visual impact.

The project pages that I select for the purpose of these squatch hunts may very well undergo changes by their project creators. Who knows? If they learn that their project has been predicted to fail, maybe that will spark something within them to prove such predictions wrong.

Feel free to leave your own predictions for these very same projects chosen as Squatch Hunt candidates in the comments section, below. Who knows? Maybe you'll prove to be a better squatch hunter than the Squatch, himself.

Now, with no further ado, here are the Squatch Hunt candidates for the day.

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Section: Comics
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Native Comics' Protectors of the Native Order Graphic Novel!

0 Backers
0% funded
$0.00 pledged of $5,000 goal
29 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Comics
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: The Makeshift Man Issue 4

7 Backers
8% funded
$230 pledged of $2,800 goal
29 days to go

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: SUCCEEDED

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Section: Comics
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: Primal-Season 3

0 Backers
0% funded
$0.00 pledged of $1,500 goal
29 days to go 

Prediction: FAIL
Actual Outcome: FAILED

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Section: Comics
Sorted by: Newest
Candidate: SEPARATION, a hard cover art book by Tyler Kirkham

 

0 Backers
14% funded
$1,992 pledged of $13,500 goal
34 days to go 

Prediction: SUCCEED
Actual Outcome: SUCCEEDED

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