Kickstarter has become a bit of a phenomenon, and with good reason. While just like with any other system there's no guarantee that every campaign will be successful, there are enough success stories to come out of the crowd funding camp to make it worth a developer's while to at least try. I run across more than my share of interesting projects on the web site, and get several requests from developers to publish "their story" and help spread the word. Here are a couple recent contacts that I thought I'd make you aware of.