Kickstarter mini drone kicked out

One thing that consistently strikes me as a problem with Kickstarter is that the investment is open ended. In this case, they received 15x the funding they were initially asking for. In some ways, this is good (it spreads your NRCs) but it also can lead to the scope of a manufacturing project dramatically increasing. Giving an inexperienced team millions of dollars and expecting their project to go smoothly is asking for trouble.

The worst bit here is the lack of communication.<p>&quot;Everything&#x27;s fine. Almost there. All on track. Any minute now. You&#x27;re getting nothing.&quot;<p>As someone who&#x27;s backed plenty of projects, I&#x27;d much rather have clear, honest, communication than pretending that everything is fine up until the day the project goes bust.<p>As it is, I have no idea if this project was inches away and then ran out of cash, or if they never produced anything usable and have been smokescreening the whole way.

&quot;&#x27;No more Kickstarter for me. Willing to pay more after the product hits the shelves,&#x27; wrote another.&quot;<p>Despite several fairly high-profile Kickstarter&#x27;s that did not deliver, this line still seems to come out after new failure. I wonder if Kickstarter needs to do more to explain what a donation is and is not. Or if, given the number of people backing Kickstarter projects, there are just always going to be backers who don&#x27;t understand the funding model.