Hah. I just did this (yesterday) with Kickstarter. Hit 140% of goal in 24 hours.

I made a write up around what I wanted to do. I made a quick video at work summarizing my key points. And I set a $100 goal.

13 people contributed. More than half of them are total strangers.

This does work and can also be encouraging for feedback.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rememberlenny/new-publi...