Today, we have prepared for you a very interesting list of 10 Ridiculous Crowdfunding Campaigns That Actually Worked!
We are sure you have acquainted yourself with the term crowdfunding. If not, crowdfunding is the newest and hottest trend for entrepreneurs to achieve their goals and dreams. The core of crowdfunding is getting the necessary funds for your project or idea from people around the world, mainly over the internet, who liked it and are willing to support you. Although some were skeptical about the idea in the beginning, it proved very successful as you can see on our The 11 Most Successful Kickstarter Projects list.
Over the years there have been some awesome projects, there were a lot of those who were not so awesome, but some worked in spite of that, as you will see in our 10 Ridiculous Crowdfunding Campaigns That Actually Worked list. It is always hard to determine what moves people and what makes them say WOW. Mainly, the ideas that lean on something popular in that dedicated moment, will usually work. It doesn’t matter if they are smart, well thought through, or just appeared in someone’s head on a crazy Saturday night.
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The benefit is mutual. While the person or groups are getting the financial aid needed for starting their project, that they were not able to get somewhere else, the funders get some benefits too. For the amount of the money they are putting into the project, they can receive the gadgets, albums, movie tickets, games, books, or stake in the company. It all depends on what the project is. The trend wasn’t followed by common people only, some major players, like Spike Lee, joined in asking for funds.
But here are we blabbering about the crowdfunding, while you are all waiting to see our 10 Ridiculous Crowdfunding Campaigns That Actually Worked . Power to the people, here you go.
10. Lionel Richie’s Head
Some guys figured it would be fun to make a giant inflatable sculpture of Lionel Richie’s Head. They asked for help on Kickstarter, and people responded. They have managed to collect more than $13,000.
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9. Grilled Cheesus
Rob Corso and Meg Sheehan decided to reach their hand to that Christian in everyone. They made electronic sandwich press that toasts the face of Jesus onto your sandwich bread. And their prayers have been heard since they collected $25,604 from 286 backers.
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8. Pirate Pancake Griddle!
While there are people who like a touch of Jesus on their sandwich bread, there are those who are not fans of religion, and like their food a bit darker. For them, this Joe Sandor’s project which turns your pancakes into skull heads was perfect and they funded it with more than $18,000.
7. TARDIS To The Orbit
Some Doctor Who fans wanted to make something special for 5oth anniversary of the show. So they have built this Doctor Who time machine and spacecraft and they want to launch it into the orbit. 3,231 people funded the project with $88,880.
6. Tooth Campaign
Jeffery Self broke his front tooth, but his head was in a greater pain when he discovered the amount of money he would need to fix it. So he launched an indiegogo campaign to get the necessary funds. $3,650 was funded to bring Jeffery his smile back in just 15 days.
5. Potato Salad
Zack Danger Brown started a campaign on Kickstarter asking for $10 so he would make a potato salad. For some reason, people really dig it, and he managed to collect $55,492 from 6,911 backers. That’s enough money to make potato salad with gold if you ask us. But the man was fair and donated much of the money to the charity. Still he deserves to be on 10 Ridiculous Crowdfunding Campaigns That Actually Worked.
4. The Burrito Eater
Noboru Bitoy wanted to try a burrito from his local Chipolte and asked 8$ for this project of his. People are into backing other’s hunger, since he raised $1,050 from 258 backers.
3. World’s Most Super Amazing 100% Awesome Cat Calendar
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since everyone likes cat nowadays. Kate Funk asked for $3,500 so she would make a calendar filled with cats in costumes and what not. The project was quickly backed from 1.119 backers who donated more than $25,000.
2. Kurt Braunohler’s Cloud Project
Comedian Kurt Braunohler came up with the idea he could hire someone to write stupid things on the sky with a plane. He asked for $4,000, but got close to $7,000 from 257 backers. He even organized a pool to decide on the phrase to be written. The winner was “How do I land”.
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1. Bug A Salt
You should never underestimate people’s fear from insects. On indiegogo Lorenzo Maggiore asked $15,000 for his bug killing gun that used only regular kitchen salt. He ended acquiring a stunning $577,636 in just two months and topped our 10 Ridiculous Crowdfunding Campaigns That Actually Worked.
