Outgrow.me, the place to shop for Kickstarter funded items
It gets quite crowded on Kickstarter, as more and more businesses and individuals are discovering the funding platform. One of the things that I personally do not like that much about the site is that it is relatively difficulty to navigate, especially if you want to keep taps on every new project that gets posted on the site. While you have a recently launched menu in the sidebar, you can't filter the items by category that you are interested in. And when you go into the categories, you can't display the newest projects here either.
Another thing that is currently missing from the site is a a shop of sorts that is providing users with options to buy successfully funded projects. Once a project has been funded on Kickstarter, it is basically up to the user to stay in the loop. And while you will receive the occasional email from the project team that gets you informed about recent advances, you do not really get any information if you have not funded the project.
Outgrow.me closes the gap by listing successfully funded Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects on their website. The site is not a shopping site though, more of a site that lists the successful projects and provides you with links to the developer sites where the items and products can be purchased.
What you find on outgrow.me though is a listing of successful projects that include photos, a description of the item, price information and the campaign video that promoted the Kickstarter campaign.
Categories on the left allow you to filter the results so that only products that you are interested in are displayed on the endlessly scrolling page. This includes some interesting categories like "everything but apple" or "under $25". Products can also be sorted by availability, with outgrow.me distinguishing between products that are already available and products that can be pre-ordered.
The site seems to have just started out and it shows in the products that are available on it. Another issue that you may have is that there is not a search option on the site to find items that you are interested in.
Still, the idea makes sense and is currently filling a gap. It remains to be seen what will happen to the site should Kickstarter decided to create its own shop of sorts on their site.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.