[p1necone]

People are beating around the bush in their replies but it seems like you need a serious reality check. You can't ask money for the promise of some information about your project in a newsletter, that's absurd.

Your website has very little information about what it is, but that's not anywhere near the biggest problem.

Once you either have a product that people want to use, or at least a decent prototype to show to people for not guaranteed at all funding you might be able to get some money but until then you should be doing what everyone else does - work a regular job for someone else to keep you afloat while you work on your own stuff.

[em-bee]

how is that different from some kickstarters?

[singron]

It looks like a lot of failed kickstarters. I.e. extremely ambitious, small team, too little funding, and unlikely to succeed. I think Kickstarter won't even let you make these anymore and apparently GoFundMe didn't want it either.

Crowdfunding doesn't really make sense for nascent projects with high risk. If the value to a consumer is $10, and there is a 10% chance of success, the EV is only $1. Honestly VC is better for that, but you have to actually sell ownership and upside instead of charging for probably-nothing. I don't really think a VC will touch this though.

The best bet is probably to reduce scope and get a day job.

[loa_in_]

I think the biggest faux pas here is telling people what to do with their money, who to support and to suggest that only human endeavors that are worth supporting are those fitting some kind of arbitrary spur-of-the-moment usability criterion.