We have always been told/taught - "Time is Money".
What happens at kickstarter is someone donates money for a cause.<p>How about replacing money with time?<p>This just hit me, not sure if I am making sense, or if it is too vague.
Just want to know what people think of it here.<p>Maybe something meaningful comes out of the group mulling here.<p>Throwing it out for discussion.
I think I see what you're getting at here - people donate their time and skill to a certain project and in exchange get the same kind of perks you can get from a Kickstarter campaign. Instead of crowdfunding it becomes crowdbuilding. Open source development for the masses.<p>I like this idea. I could get behind this sort of project.
It's an interesting idea, a way for people to seek out volunteers instead of financial backers.<p>However I don't think it could ride the same wave of popularity that Kickstarter has. KS works as well as it does because there are many thousands of people who browse it like a store, who are willing to drop $5-$100 on a project, to get some rewards or at least warm fuzzies. In other words they have gamified the pledging system, so that financial support happens as a byproduct of people 'upvoting' cool projects they like.<p>I don't know if this would work for volunteering, because it's a lot harder to make good on a commitment to volunteer than it is to authorize Amazon to charge you $20 a month from now. You also would not get as many casual backers, the kind who treat KS as a store, who want something out of a project, and are not backing projects just to support them.
My problem is a lot of things take money too. For things like hosting, or transportation etc. Would you make so X number of hours need to be dontated for it kick in? How do you keep people to their word?