zacmartin

Actually: "There's no reasonable metric that adds up and they aren't transparent about it, that's enough to write a click-bait headline."

I used 3D printing during the prototyping stage, and even using a friend of a friend's printer it still worked out to be roughly $60 AUD a print.

* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432

And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...

I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.

God forbid advertisers, who fund much of the content we consume online, get better at serving ads that are more relevant to the consumer.

On large pages I've had massive issues with Promoted Posts - flooded with spammy comments that suggested all additional impressions were fake.

Facebook advised Promoted Posts were more effective on smaller pages (eg. <1,000 fans).

And a better interface with enhanced reporting ability. Hoping for something like AdWords, ended up with amateur-hour.

A response below highlighted some of the key reasons. Extremely limited options, poor interface (I was hoping for something closer to AdWords) and terrible reporting ability. Really missing some 'basics' that turn me off. Plus the few trials I've run generated a very high cost-per-click that wasn't generating an ROI.

I work in a media agency and would love to sell in Reddit to my clients but if you've ever tried to use it as an advertiser it's an extremely poor offering. Sadly, this sales deck does nothing to change my perception.