Skipping Kickstarter: August Smart Lock

In other words, a copy of Lockitron (and their funding model as well). Not sure Lockitron is the company to emulate however. It took Lockitron over a year so far and nothing delivered. Lots of "delays" and updates and late bugs and such.

At least with Kickstarter and/or Indiegogo you might have the slightest chance of reclaiming some money should the project fail or at least be able to generate some public awareness for future projects from the creator(s).