December 11, 2015 at 11:12Indian "Kickstarter": what do they throw off in rupees?
Ketto is an Indian crowdfunding platform with a “familiar” interface, with more than 200,000 registered users. Are there gadgets there and what are they raising money for - under the cut.
The interface of the site, of course, resembles the "older brothers", who have already gained world fame: Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Some relevant campaigns are placed on the main page.
Plunging further, a topic filter will be available, which indicates the number of campaigns in each of the subsections. There are about 30 such “sub-items”, the most popular of which are “Health”, “Children”, “Women's Rights”, “Elimination of the consequences of natural disasters”, “Sport”. A cursory examination reveals that social problems dominate, and division into sections becomes conditional. That is, for example, projects are created in the health section with a request to raise funds for the treatment of a particular disease. Similar requests for the treatment of children “go” to the “Children” section, in the sports section they can apply for help to athletes with disabilities, etc.
Despite these features, conditional “geek” projects are created and are being implemented. So, for example, recently passed on international press Safer, a safety necklace that can alert relatives and friends that something is happening to you. It also receives and processes notifications from a smartphone and acts as a button for a Selfie.
And he is not the only one. In total, there are 63 projects in the Technology section at the moment, but in fact they are fewer, among which there are even activity trackers. Fitkat is quite simple, and can count steps, calories, send notifications. But, which is noteworthy, it also added the possibility of emergency location alerts. And in all likelihood, these are features of the situation in the country.
M17 is a project where they raise money for an electric car powered by recycled computer batteries.
Following the fashion, funny Power Banks are createdat 850 mAh. Convenient, portable, cute, and in addition to recharging the smartphone, it can act as a button for Selfie.
Many projects are successful. However, clearly socially oriented projects tied to global problems are on the upside: hunger, floods, lack of electricity and common diseases, in general, everything in India is quite low. One of the projects is related to the support of LGBT people .
The site has its own representative offices in social networks:
The interface of the site, of course, resembles the "older brothers", who have already gained world fame: Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Some relevant campaigns are placed on the main page.
Plunging further, a topic filter will be available, which indicates the number of campaigns in each of the subsections. There are about 30 such “sub-items”, the most popular of which are “Health”, “Children”, “Women's Rights”, “Elimination of the consequences of natural disasters”, “Sport”. A cursory examination reveals that social problems dominate, and division into sections becomes conditional. That is, for example, projects are created in the health section with a request to raise funds for the treatment of a particular disease. Similar requests for the treatment of children “go” to the “Children” section, in the sports section they can apply for help to athletes with disabilities, etc.
Despite these features, conditional “geek” projects are created and are being implemented. So, for example, recently passed on international press Safer, a safety necklace that can alert relatives and friends that something is happening to you. It also receives and processes notifications from a smartphone and acts as a button for a Selfie.
And he is not the only one. In total, there are 63 projects in the Technology section at the moment, but in fact they are fewer, among which there are even activity trackers. Fitkat is quite simple, and can count steps, calories, send notifications. But, which is noteworthy, it also added the possibility of emergency location alerts. And in all likelihood, these are features of the situation in the country.
M17 is a project where they raise money for an electric car powered by recycled computer batteries.
Following the fashion, funny Power Banks are createdat 850 mAh. Convenient, portable, cute, and in addition to recharging the smartphone, it can act as a button for Selfie.
Many projects are successful. However, clearly socially oriented projects tied to global problems are on the upside: hunger, floods, lack of electricity and common diseases, in general, everything in India is quite low. One of the projects is related to the support of LGBT people .
The site has its own representative offices in social networks: