I'm hit and miss on Kickstarter with significant hits that make up for the misses. First off, I never back anything expensive. $100 tops. Various cellphone mounts and holders have all been garbage. Maybe 4 of them, in total. My Bongo bluetooth speaker is extraordinary. I have three of them. And the 5 I gave away as presents are still heavily used. It started the company Otis & Eleanor, who went on to actually become manufacturers for other Kickstarters! mike has already shipped me my Puzzle-A-Day calendar puzzles I backed last week! The saddest/funniest one is a little tiny pocket drum/synth noisemaker called the Bitty that's going on 1.5 years of updates now. Dude is a complete pillock, but is tenacious! And now assures us that the 200 PCBs he has in stock - and then needs to put 5-8 hours into assembling each one - will be done this month... the same month his infant child was born. So yeah. Should be another 3 years or so on that one, IF it ever ships. The De La Soul album was a fucking gold mine... not only did they deliver an entire new album, they also gave everyone all the samples and source material they used, so they could make their own music! I still haven't gotten to the bottom of everything they delivered. The Lightman was a fantastic little pocket light that worked well, and was going to be very useful... and then just ... poofed into thin air. Feb 3, 2016 was the latest update where the guy was talking about production happening and there will be "an update soon with shipping times"... and silence for the last 4 years. I'm not optimistic... ;-) I did manage to get the Polar Pen before the Postal Service figured out they were shipping small magnets to the US and put the kibosh on that. Apparently you can't ship small magnets to the US from Canada for two reasons: some weird military thing, and the fact that the US bans all magnets under a certain size because some kid ate two rare earth magnets, they connected two parts of his duodenum together, and he died. That was the end of their business, AFAIK. Kickstarter draws in the weirdos. I'm a much bigger fan of Patreon.