Skallops & Kickstarter

About this project

Skallops are the best way to build big!
They’re a construction toy that uses clever laser cut clips—Skallops—and regular playing cards to let you make anything that you can imagine. We’ve perfected the design so that it’s easy to connect playing cards in countless ways. The Skallops themselves are cut out of the highest-quality, sanded and finished birch plywood.

Skallops Community

Once the Skallops have shipped, we'll be setting up a community website where anyone can post their designs and instructions for building awesome things with Skallops. We’ll be asking you, our amazing backers, to seed the gallery with your favorite creations. And we’ll be there too, posting instructions for the designs you see here.

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What is Kickstarter?

One of a new set of fundraising platforms dubbed "crowdfunding",^[3] Kickstarter facilitates gathering monetary resources from the general public, a model which circumvents many traditional avenues of investment.^[4] People must apply to Kickstarter in order to have a project posted on the site, and Kickstarter provides guidelines^[5] on what types of projects will be accepted. Project owners choose a deadline and a target minimum of funds to raise. If the chosen target is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected (this is known as a provision point mechanism).^[6] Money pledged by donors is collected using Amazon Payments,^[7] and initiating projects requires a U.S. bank account.

Kickstarter takes 5% of the funds raised; Amazon charges an additional 3-5%.^[8] Unlike many forums for fundraising or investment, Kickstarter claims no ownership over the projects and the work they produce. However, projects launched on the site are permanently archived and accessible to the public. After funding is completed, projects and uploaded media cannot be edited or removed from the site.^[9]

I have helped fund two products so far, I love the concept.