Why not use Kickstarter for this? Is there something about Kickstarter that makes it necessary to have a separate site for science? It seems that the audience that uses Kickstarter is the one you want for Petridish.
This makes it easy to find scientific research for those who are specifically looking for it. I'm not very experienced with kickstarter, but I cannot find a "science" category in it. And searching for it will find lots of unrelated stuff. With petridish, by just visiting the website you'll find only scientific relevant projects.
There's plenty of people who believe are taxes are not being properly distributed. Who believe we should put a much bigger enphasis on science. With an easy way to direct people to crowd funded scientific projects. You open the possibility for us to choose to do justice with our own hands. You can take a small amount of money and reserve it to invest in science every month. Just as if it were a tax for science that you're doing out of your own will. It would be very hard to do that on kickstarter because you have to sift through all the entertainment stuff the something, petridish makes this simple.
A few years ago I never imagined that I would help fund scientists to find an exomoon, but now I just did :)
>It seems that the audience that uses Kickstarter is the one you want for Petridish
I just donated to the exomoon project. I've never given Kickstarter the time of day - I find projects there mostly frou-frou. Frou-frou is fine, we all need it once in a while, but I don't want to donate to support it.
The focus on science is compelling. More interesting is the potential for this to evolve into a distributed clearinghouse for research funding.
The consumer perspective of Kickstarter is very important for Kickstarter's business model. Kickstarter isn't just a place for producers to go when they need funding- It's a place where consumers can go to purchase edgy gadgets and goods. Over half of my friends that know about Kickstarter view it specifically to find cool & new products to buy.
By creating a new startup that caters crowd-funding to science experiments, Petridish is capturing a whole new segment of consumers who are specifically looking to fund cool & new science experiments.
