Why would they be worried? Rolling your own Kickstarter has many issues that Kickstarter deals with, scalability, payment processing, there's all manner of things. Sure, if you really care so much about that 5% that you're willing to dump all the advantages of Kickstarter then you'll get to save 5%, but do you think kickstarter are surprised that people are cloning the idea for their own usage?
If you're a project creator, let's say you're Lockitron and you don't have any web developers on staff, do you try and hire someone or get a friend on board to try and manage a website that could, if the project blows up, suffer from a metric fuckton of traffic, traffic that lots of websites cannot handle? Or do you say "eh, we'll sacrifice the 5% for the stability and branding of Kickstarter"?
If your website goes down for 24 hours because you can't cope with the traffic and your developers are inexperienced you could lose a lot of money, it can be make or break for projects that get media coverage. Who's going to put money into a project that can't even keep a website online?
Then there's the fact that there are dozens of Kickstarter alternatives out there already, with lower fees and other advantages, like no project limits. Why aren't Kickstarter crying themselves to sleep over that?
I really doubt Kickstarter have anything other than "heh" to say about this. Hell, they might even gain from this because people will develop new ideas that Kickstarter can fold into their product.
Kickstarter dumps basically all of the costs of payment processing onto whoever's launching the product, though. Amazon's payment processing fees, chargeback costs, etc are all paid from the project's portion of the money, and they also have to have a US bank account to deposit the money in.
If you're a project creator, let's say you're Lockitron and you don't have any web developers on staff, do you try and hire someone or get a friend on board to try and manage a website that could, if the project blows up, suffer from a metric fuckton of traffic, traffic that lots of websites cannot handle? Or do you say "eh, we'll sacrifice the 5% for the stability and branding of Kickstarter"?
If your website goes down for 24 hours because you can't cope with the traffic and your developers are inexperienced you could lose a lot of money, it can be make or break for projects that get media coverage. Who's going to put money into a project that can't even keep a website online?
Then there's the fact that there are dozens of Kickstarter alternatives out there already, with lower fees and other advantages, like no project limits. Why aren't Kickstarter crying themselves to sleep over that?
I really doubt Kickstarter have anything other than "heh" to say about this. Hell, they might even gain from this because people will develop new ideas that Kickstarter can fold into their product.