A WHOLE NEW MOTHER PROJECT IS AFOOT. As a matter of fact, it's been alive and kicking for some impressive time now.

It's mission, as indicated on its website, is "to bring creative projects to life".

"We’re a for-profit company... We spend our time making Kickstarter a little bit better every day, answering questions from backers and creators, and finding new projects to share", says the kickstarter official website. "If a project is successfully funded, we apply a 5% fee to the funds collected".

"We believe that creative projects make for a better world, and we’re thrilled to help support new ones. Building a community of backers around an idea is an amazing way to make something new."

The crowdfunding platform is based in New York City’s Lower East Side, U.S.A. It launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler.

It categorizes its business in to Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film and Video, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology and Theater.

One of the successful projects to see day light via Kickstarter is Ghost, a blogging platform that's just launched.

It would appear that old ways of doing things are finding their way back into our live, through the power of the vital skills set of programming. Kickstarter would be no exception. 

Mozart, Beethoven, Whitman, Twain, and other artists funded works in similar ways — not just with help from large patrons, but by soliciting money from smaller patrons, often called subscribers. In return for their support, these subscribers might have received an early copy or special edition of the work. Kickstarter is an extension of this model, turbocharged by the web.