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by thomaspaine 4650 days ago
You should finish the quote...

>Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do that thing, and not some other thing that you thought up in the meantime.

His point being that Kickstarter funding makes it hard to pivot, as opposed to other types of funding.

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The rest of the quote actually gives a poorer impression.
All kinds of funding come with some sort of commitment. If you want to do something else instead, you talk to your funders. They could have discussed this with their backers, but didn't.