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[Rose]

It's 1000 square feet, will cost about 10k usd to build.

[Parsely]

A kickstarter for your house? Huh.

[Sirus]

If a Kickstarter for potato salad can be successful, I don't see why one for building a house couldn't.

And at least a house has tangible, long-lasting value.

[scriver]

And you get a natural location for the success party.

[Putnam]

If a Kickstarter for potato salad can be successful, I don't see why one for building a house couldn't.

And at least a house has tangible, long-lasting value.

Projects must create something to share with others.

Kickstarter can be used to create all sorts of things: art and gadgets, events and spaces, ideas and experiences. But every project needs a plan for creating something and sharing it with the world. At some point, the creator should be able to say: “It’s finished. Here’s what we created. Enjoy!”

[Sirus]

Japa's wife and upcoming child don't count?

Besides, I'm pretty sure the initial potato salad kickstarter was only meant for the one guy.

[Fniff]

Well, isn't creating a house that people can see fulfilling all the requirements of that law? If you define "sharing" as "viewing". If that isn't true, then you couldn't crowdfund a painting because the only thing you can do with a painting is view and appreciate it.

[Rolan7]

Japa's wife and upcoming child don't count?

Besides, I'm pretty sure the initial potato salad kickstarter was only meant for the one guy.

Maybe originally, but invitations to the potato salad dinner became a backer reward.  I have no idea how that turned out.

[Leafsnail]

They had a potato salad party.

[Moghjubar]

For building a house, obviously reward should be blueprints, documentation, signing pieces of the house as its built (via printed out signatures), and of course a public viewing upon being finished.  It would probably help if there was something fancy going on as well (though this may be difficult if you have those darned building codes to worry about).

$10,000 backer reward: they get to live in the basement for a month and creep the neighbors out (must be sufficiently creepy and file a creeping plan).

[Rose]

That plan works particularly well because the closest thing the house has to a 'basement' is the bottom level that serves as a barn, which is already built. The cows live there.

[scriver]

But you will die from methane poisoning!

[PTTG??]

The author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is running a Kickstarter. I'm not sure that makes sense.

[TamerVirus]

You should never give mouse a cookie because it advocates communism and the destruction of society

[Flying Dice]

"If you give a delusional asshole praise for his idiotic game idea, he's going to want some donations..."?