Ten years on from my first Kickstarter, it's with sadness that I've made the decision to close down Ockham Razor Co.

It’s a common rookie error to make a campaign as long as possible in the hope of raising more money. But in the data here there’s no correlation between funding length and total funding raised.

A key part of the Kickstarter dashboard is a chart showing funding progress over time. Every chart tells a story. Here are my stories.

If Indiegogo becomes only available to well-funded companies and people start to treat it as an online shop then that will be the beginning of the end for them.