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How awesome is Kickstarter?

Kickstarter is awesome. Where else can you go when you have an absolutely crazy idea and need to raise some quick capital in order to implement said idea?

Web Watch has a dozen or so ideas that are just waiting for the right time to get them Kickstarted.  That will help pay us back for any of the projects that we have contributed to that may never see the light of day.

But for every singular Kickstarter success, there’s at least one or two (or dozen) more that should never, ever get funded.

The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs
The Kickstarter Handbook:
Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs

And they’re all listed and curated over at YOUR KICKSTARTER SUCKS.

That cradle for the AppleTV remote control, because yours keeps getting lost?  Yeah, that’s not going to make it.

$5000 in order to reinvent the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as people in a poster?  Why not just make the poster and sell it to make your money back?

Wow, a wall-mounted bottle opener?  THAT needs a Kickstarter?

What are some of the worst ideas you’ve ever hear of that actually made it to market?