Man Raises $23,000 on Kickstarter to Make a Bowl of Potato Salad

[epere]

This opens the floodgates. Kickstarter is going to be filled with copycats now, hoping to get a quick buck.

[Lauda]

Can you share a link to this ridiculous Kickstarter project?

[zetaray]

Kickstarter has a lot of serious projects. The potato salad is a one off joke, wouldn't repeat again  

[1Referee]

Just a fool that made his family and friends invest the money in it. Attention is what they want.

[iopq]

I found an article about this

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/7/5876971/kickstarter-potato-salad-crowdfunding

According to the article, there are a lot of legit kickstarter projects that are nowhere near as compelling as this one. Although the project itself was stupid, it did everything right:

-Clear goal, and interesting (well, funny anyway) story
-Clear benefit to backers (silly fun and/or eating potato salad is a benefit)
-No self-important nonsense

Lots and lots of kickstarters are basically "fund this because I wanna do it" which is not a good reason. This one was "fund this for the lulz and/or you get to eat potato salad" which is a plenty good reason.

[Vod]

Can you share a link to this ridiculous Kickstarter project?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

[medUSA]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

Over 3000 people raised $35000 to make potato salad?? They should make their money useful by supporting legit projects.

[Vod]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

Over 3000 people raised $35000 to make potato salad?? They should make their money useful by supporting legit projects.

I'm sure it was more than just an attempt to make potato salad.  It was probably a university project about social engineering or something.

[#yolo]

Kickstarter has a lot of serious projects. The potato salad is a one off joke, wouldn't repeat again  

Surprisingly the joke ones are on the rise, just ridiculous to look at this really. They would be better of making ice-cream IMHO.
Seriously people love wasting their money "even if it's just few cents".

[Newbiemon]

This is insane! that amount of money for a potato salad. But i think its funny 

[Lauda]

Kickstarter has a lot of serious projects. The potato salad is a one off joke, wouldn't repeat again  

Surprisingly the joke ones are on the rise, just ridiculous to look at this really. They would be better of making ice-cream IMHO.
Seriously people love wasting their money "even if it's just few cents".

I wonder how many kids could have been fed by this money.

[johncarpe64]

That must be one of the best potato salad ever.... it used gold instead of potato

[Katarina]

I remember someone sold a rotten egg on ebay for few hundred thousand but I couldn't find it any more.