At room temperature, it spoils within hours. Potato Salad will launch in December 2014. Yet compared to its original funding goal, Potato Salad's support is greater than that shown for projects such as Star Citizen, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, Elite: Dangerous, B roken Age and the Ouya console. In whole dollars, Potato Salad is nowhere near the top of the list of Kickstarter projects. There is no word yet about plans for a public beta of Potato Salad, or if Brown intends to release Potato Salad on Steam Early Access. Potato Salad has also broken all named stretch goals, meaning Brown will now use better mayonnaise, call a chef 'to get a better recipe,' and livestream its creation. Last weekend, the Kickstarter project to make Potato Salad became famous when it raised 55,492 from 6,911 backers, and creator Zach Brown's Youtube parody video went viral. Potato Salad, to be developed by Zack Danger Brown of Columbus, Ohio, surpassed its $10 funding target within hours of being listed on Kickstarter on Friday, and as of publication time has gathered $1,803 from more than 350 backers. The account started with $20,000 in post-campaign corporate donations and will grow after proceeds from PotatoStock are added.The potato salad Kickstarter is better than your crowdfunding campaignĪppropriately enough for the July 4 holiday weekend, a crowdfunded campaign to make a batch of tasty potato salad is more than 180 times over its goal and, with 27 days left in the fund drive, is already one of the most successful projects in Kickstarter history. In this post, we will look at some of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns in various categories, and what specifically has made them so successfulincluding tugging at the heartstrings, using humor, building a connection, and employing great graphics and videos. In July, the web designer put himself at the mercy of the world. The Idaho Potato Commission and corporate sponsors donated potato salad supplies for the party.īrown is partnering with the Columbus Foundation to support charities that fight hunger and homelessness. Zack Brown, 31, drew thousands to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday for an event that started as a bit of fun but became PotatoStock 2014. Zack Brown had jokingly sought $10 on Kickstarter in July to buy potato salad ingredients, but his mission drew global attention and earned tens of thousands of dollars.

READ MORE: Man who raised $55K is throwing potato salad party With more than 3,000 pounds of potatoes, the charity-minded party was open to people of all ages. PotatoStock 2014 was held in downtown Columbus and featured bands, food trucks, beer vendors and, yes, plenty of potato salad. COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio man who raised $55,000 in a joking crowdfunding appeal to pay for his first attempt at making potato salad threw a huge public party Saturday that promised “peace, love and potato salad.”

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