Kickstarter 12+

In the current version, all the features are very user-friendly and everything works really well, but there is a small glitch worthy of some note: if you tap on a notification banner, it takes you to the app but not to the update, survey, message, etc. you are being notified about. I hope it's not too much trouble to fix, but that's pretty hampering to accessibility and efficiency as things stand now.

On a lesser note, if there were some to make the notifications not all clear away from the Notification Center when only one of them is being selected, that would further help in the name of efficiency. Some apps, I notice, wipe clean the notifications from the Notification Center the moment the app is opened or reentered, whereas some don't mess with them at all, save for removing the ones tapped on/swiped left. When you've backed dozens upon dozens of campaigns that are still actively updating, it can be such a slog skimming through the Activity Log, especially if you're more interested in reading certain updates first. Notifications are ideally a quick and easy way to flip everything new to find the info/content you're most interested in at the present moment. If you are able to change this at all without, of course, completely recoding the app from zero, I would greatly appreciate that bit of fine-tuning. 😁 Please & thanks, and keep up the great work on the app. 💚👍

Kickstarter is awesome. I’ve backed over 160 projects and had a 90% positive return. It’s crowdfunding so 100% is really unlikely. The app could use some work. Being able to sort campaigns by whether they have fulfilled or not ill be hugely useful. Some sort of better organization/optimization of comments would be very nice. Improving the search mechanism would be great, maybe adding filters or something to allow refinement without scrolling through tons of projects that aren’t what you’re looking for. A way of tagging comments so you could potentially exclude all the ones on a given topic and see the rest would be good. More insight into creator activity (last presence, most recent comment, etc) would be great as well. It would be nice if comments from “super” backers could be identified. Many projects have delays and backers who haven’t backed many projects tend to freak out while those with more experience have a better eye towards behavior that indicates fraud rather than that which indicates inexperience.

This app, and the Kickstarter platform itself, facilitates the fraudulent behavior of scammers worldwide. Since there is no validation of creators, scammers can abandon tarnished accounts and create new, blemish free accounts (IE, not using existing “Boltz” account but instead a new “Boltz Mini” account that has no failing projects). As backers, we can’t see things such as a projects delivery percentage (as marked by other backers), we don’t get notifications when bad creators switch from project updates to posting in comments, we can’t even see a quick list of “all my backed projects that aren’t shipped yet” - these failures of Kickstarter directly aid scammers by allowing them to fly under the radar, making it harder for the backers to judge if they’ll be scammed and to understand when they’ve been scammed.

This app makes it easier for scammers to steal money from users, and harder for users to identify potential scams and understand when they have been ripped off. Kickstarter takes a cut of the stolen money as a fee for connecting the scammers to scammed.

Remember folks, Kickstarter isn’t validating or vouching for creators or the projects they’re taking your money for. Whether it’s a scam or legitimate, the creator gets your money, minus Kickstarter’s cut, and you’re not getting any of it back.