We prohibit projects that are illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for backers, as well as rewards that the creator did not make.
- Any item claiming to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent any illness or condition (whether via a device, app, book, nutritional supplement, or other means).
- Contests, ambling, and raffles.
- Offensive material (e.g., hate speech, encouraging violence against others, etc).
- Offering a genetically modified organism as a product.
- Live animals. Projects cannot include live animals as a product.
- Offering alcohol as a product.
- Offering financial, money-processing, or credit services; financial intermediaries or cash-equivalent instruments; travel services (e.g., vacation packages); phone services (e.g., prepaid phone services, 900 numbers); and business marketing services.
- Political fundraising.
- Pornographic material.
- Products or services that promote discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance towards marginalized groups.
- Products that share things that already exist, or repackage a previously-created product, without adding anything new or aiming to iterate on the idea in any way.
- Resale. All products must have been produced or designed by the business or one of its founders — no reselling things from elsewhere.
- Drugs, nicotine, tobacco, vaporizers, and related paraphernalia.
- Weapons, replicas of weapons, and weapon accessories.
- If your product or service involves something illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for backers and it is not on this list, please contact us before starting your campaign.