Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative: Review, Funding & Stats
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiativeHyperstarter Score
29%
Need Improvement
Goal Status
Backers
2,976
Pledge Amount
$212,513.64
of $196,608
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Marketing & Backlinks
Popular Sites
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 22687 - (pgp) [meta] OpenPGP support Oct 11, 2015|bugzilla.mozilla.org|High Traffic this. Here you can see that this will be successfull. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative |
 I am Ladar Levison, owner and operator of Lavabit, ask me almost anything. : IAmA Feb 4, 2021|www.reddit.com|High Traffic http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative |
 Email is broken - but Dark Mail Alliance is aiming to fix it | Data and computer security | The Guardian www.theguardian.com|High Traffic of that design: Dark Mail Alliance . Two months later, Levison has the support of almost 3,000 kickstarter backers to add to the momentum , having raised more than $200,000 on the site to |
 Lavabit Founder Takes To Kickstarter To Open Source A New End-To-End Encryption Messaging Protocol | TechCrunch techcrunch.com|High Traffic the now-shuttered secure email provider Lavabit , has taken to Kickstarter to resurrect the concept of secure email in a new, |
 Lavabit founder launches Kickstarter for encrypted email - CNET www.cnet.com |
General Sites
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 Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative - Freedoms Phoenix Aug 6, 2020|www.freedomsphoenix.com Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative |
 Scaoileann Darkmail a shonraíochtaí | Ó Linux May 2, 2021|blog.desdelinux.net Jon Callas, agus Phil Zimmermann, go déanach in 2013 go bhí ort airgead a bhailiú a bheith in ann smaoineamh ar phrótacal nua chun ríomhphoist |
 November 2013 - sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org sudoroom.org This seems good to support: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative "Along with preserving existing functionality, the team will build in |
 Can you learn cryptography? – Liberty.me Apr 10, 2021|liberty.me Darkmail Kickstarter |
 Atlas Society Archive - BRC Video Interview: Lavabit's Ladar Levison on the Technology of Private Email Oct 9, 2020|archive.atlassociety.org to email privacy: Dark Mail . The Kickstarter for it funded last week . |
Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative: Campaign Review & Analysis
Campaign Page Overview
Detailed breakdown and suggestions for improvement
Hyperstarter Score Breakdown
 4 | The title has a good length, but could more text be added?TITLE: 30 Add more characters to the title, perhaps add specific niche keywords? Look at adding more words by researching your closest competitors and use what they wrote for their headlines. |
 3 | Consider revising the description lengthDESCRIPTION: 134 Is the description to-the-point and concise? Focus on the main features of the campaign and how a backer can benefit. |
 1 | There are no wordsWORD COUNT: 0 This campaign needs more text on the page. Think about what questions potential backers will have on their minds, answer them through imagery and detailed descriptive text. |
 5 | Not PresentLINK COUNT: 0 Having a small number of outbound links to other sites showing reports, company sites etc., can help build trust. |
 1 | Not presentNUMBER OF IMAGES: 0 Consider adding more such as more product images including people, a features list including text and icons, timeline, photos of the people involved in the project and/or images of where you have been mentioned. |
Suggested Improvements
Congrats on overfunding!
Just keep pushing the campaign whether it is leveraging your own contacts, updating your ads or retargeting an existing audience or trying pitching and outreach to influencers in your specific niche.
The first job of your title and headline is to get attention. The way you capture someone's attention is by describing your project in an easy to understand manner. It also helps if your product has a superlative label. For example: Is it the "World's Best ____?", the "first _____?", the "fastest____?" etc. Can you explain to potential backers how your product is lighter, faster, quicker, bigger, smaller, better than competitors.
What makes your product unique? What makes it different from the others? Explain in your description what makes your product, different, better, cooler...more unique than all its competitors.
People love reading stories. It's why fiction authors outsell non-fiction authors by at least 1,000-to-1. Your product has a creation story, an origin and you may have stories of customers who have used your product and how it changed their lives. Tell these stories on your project page.
Not only do visuals draw a potential backers attention to the sections that they care about, but they also make your campaign appear more professional and well-crafted. Check how your "hero" image looks like as a thumbnail.