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2025 Kickstarter postmortem

Six campaigns, $53K, and what the numbers really say

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Russell Nohelty
Oct 03, 2025
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Hi,

All year long I’ve been watching people say, “Kickstarter is down 25%.” Now that I’ve finished my sixth and (at least planned) final campaign of the year, I finally have enough data to see if they are right.

Instead of simply saying I’m “down”, which I am, I went through all my campaigns since 2020 (there were 41 of them), and put an “estimated raise…

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