Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:21AM from the but-my-weather-control-device-design-is-flawless dept.

OakDragon writes "Kickstarter has introduced some more stringent guidelines and requirements specifically for the Hardware and Product Design categories. These new requirements are laid out in a blog post called 'Kickstarter Is Not a Store.' Simulations will now be prohibited. Video cannot show a proposed product, action, etc. — only a real product and what it does at the time. Product renderings and other simulated illustrations also will not be sufficient — the project creator will have to have photographs of a real prototype."

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You can probably thank "Orbit" for this... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-21 06:30 · Score: 5, Informative

I'll bet most of these changes came out of the failures which is "Orbit":http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832784035/orbit-a-swiveling-smartphone-suction-mount

Nearly a year after getting their funding, their product is nowhere in sight, promises made were not kept, the funders are upset, the project owners are MIA and all of it gives Kickstarter a black eye.

Posting as AC because I'm a funder, but not related to the project or Kickstarter in any other way.