Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users.
Before 2012, no project had ever raised $1 million on the platform. In the last 12 months, 17 projects exceeded 9-figure fundraises on Kickstarter.
Pebble, the most funded Kickstarter project of all time, raised $10.2 million in less than one month from 67,000 people.
So what kind of ideas are people paying millions for?
The projects include everything from video games to home automation systems.
Amanda Palmer, a project to launch a new album, art book, and tour, raised $1.19 million from 24,883 backers.
Project Name: Amanda Palmer: The new RECORD, ART BOOK, and TOUR
Number of backers: 24,883
Original goal: $100,000
Total pledged: $1,192,793
What it is: A music album by Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra, an art book and gallery tour.
SmartThings, a home automation gadget, raised $1.2 million from 5,694 backers.
Project Name: SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter
Number of backers: 5,694
Original goal: $250,000
Total pledged: $1,209,423
What it is: "SmartThings makes it easy to connect the things in your physical world to the Internet. You can monitor, control, automate, and have fun with them from anywhere - at home, office, or on the go."
A comic, The Order of the Stick, managed to raise $1.25 million from nearly 15,000 people.
Project Name: The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive
Number of backers: 14,952
Original goal: $57,750
Total pledged: $1,254,120
What it is: "I've been self-publishing my comedy-fantasy-adventure webcomic The Order of the Stick in paper format since 2005, but one of the hardest parts about doing it all on my own is keeping the older books available. This project is designed to get at least one of those books back into print."
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