What Happened? Flipstarter Campaigns That Did Not Deliver - Summary/Conclusion

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This was a one person self-initiated research, and as such time and energy were in short supply. Therefore, the scope of the research was limited and it focused on projects that were submitted in the previous 12 months and were funded for more than 10 BCH.

Criteria for determining projects as "Did Not Deliver" was:

• proposal included a soft/hard deadline within which to deliver and:

1. deadline + 3 weeks expired with less that 50% delivered
2. link to status updates is not provided in the proposal

• proposal included a set amount of deliverables each month for n months and:

1. less than 50% of set amount was delivered
2. project is inactive for the past > 5 weeks
3. link to status updates is not provided in the proposal

• proposal included building an application or creating content. Upon examination of the links provided in the proposal, it is not possible to verify delivery (with reasonable effort) because:

1. link to deliverable does not exist
2. link to deliverable is broken
3. link to deliverable has no content
4. link to status updates is not provided in the proposal

Primary goal of this research was to raise awareness about some of our own shortcomings - picking up the slack of sorts. We are missing-out on a lot of important, invaluable, information by not following up on projects that failed to deliver.

We need to be more responsible. We also need accountability from people behind these projects. When projects get abandoned, under-perform, or struggle, keeping the community which funded the project updated is in order. This would benefit everyone. Creators build credibility. Community receives valuable feedback.

Finally, I want to give a big shout-out to u/dagurval for creating and maintaining https://flipstarters.bitcoincash.network/#/. It's a great resource for keeping track of flipstarters, and one I found very helpful throughout this research.

I encourage anyone to make it a habit to check-in from time to time. It's good practice. Don't trust - verify.