There are many projects that the wider web community want to fund but are not able to.

Example: There's a demand for the adobe creative suites on Linux, but this wont be happening any time soon.

Adobe wont create a kickstarter campaign as they just wont.

Instead, people should be able to make their deposits to a third party that will release the payments when conditions are met.

Example: groups of people submit their demands and each person submits their micro payment. The conditions on the payment being released to the company of concern must be measurable... otherwise the intended reciepient will recieve their cash payments prematurely.

This would mean that you're acting as an Escrow... something I've only just learnt about.