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Climbing gear on Kickstarter. 12-Jun-2015 At 5:02:41 PM TimP

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Quite a few climbing related projects running on Kickstarter at the moment. Disclaimer one of them is mine — Rack Sack (mods can trash me if I've crossed the spam line!).

Climbing hold brush — fully funded in less than 24 hours! Wish I knew their trick, though having a top climber is an advantage (Tom is not only a good climber but good media person too). I guess they found a market niche and designed for it well, I've pledged for one.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632048116/the-sublime-climbing-brush-the-best-brush-for-clim

A film about makers of climbing gear in the US
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176926049/climbings-craft-makers

Rack Sack is going OK, we are 17% funded with 21 days to go. It's great when people like the concept enough to pledge; both supporters and actual orders.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/climbdesign/rack-sack-rock-climbing-rack-organiser-and-carrier

Dick's nut tool. A phallic design and puns galore…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicksnuttool/dicks-nut-tool

Recently finished and fully funded was a book on climbing injuries that looked pretty interesting, there was also a climbing gym in Canada that got funded for a large amount of money. Kickstarter is an interesting place, especially for niche markets like climbing.

I was thinking of Kickstarter as a democratising of product development — small outfits like mine could have a go, but it seems the projects are getting slicker: professionally shot films and graphics.