Guy does a $10 Kickstarter to make potato salad, gets $5000 in four days.

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12 points·kentbrew··5 comments

Like other poorly-planned Kickstarter projects, this project is now facing some serious scalability issues. It's a victim of it's own success.

The project leader has to fit 20 people in his kitchen, and say more than 1,000 names while making the potato salad. He has to accept ingredient suggestions from hundreds of people. And he has to give a bit of the potato salad to hundreds more. If he does achieve that, by hiring a venue, and additional temporary staff, and making some sort of mega-salad, then people are probably going to complain that they wanted a normal salad, in his kitchen. I doubt they've thought about hygiene issues, health and safety, licensing, crowd control, etc.

It's a disaster in the making.

At the $3000 stretch goal he already said he would rent out a venue and invite people. Watch his Update Video https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad/... I think the guys heart is in the game.

Yes, my comment was somewhat in jest - it was more about serious kickstarter projects that fall victim to unexpected success. This one clearly started as a joke. I expect it will work out OK, and his investors won't really mind that it has to adapt to demand. Maybe something bigger will grow from this, even - it got another $3000 since it was posted 10 hours ago

For $25, you can buy a "I (heart) Potato Salad" hat[1] which appears to infringe on the tightly enforced[2] "I (heart) NY" trademark.

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[1] http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_potato_salad_mesh_hat-148005376...

[2] http://iheartguts.com/extra-special-guts/ (via http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-87-i-heart-ny-...)

Kickstarter's standards for acceptance of projects appear to have declined precipitously.

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