How do see a list of all active projects in a category on Kickstarter?

Question

When you visit the "Discover" section of KickStarter, you can browse projects by category. However, within a category, projects are only listed under the following headings: "Staff Picks", "Popular This Week", "Recently Successful", and "Most Funded", each of which lists a few projects and has a "more" link.

Is there any way to see an unfiltered list?

More generally: how can you ever find out about less-popular not-yet-funded projects not selected by the staff? Is there an unfiltered list somewhere, or a way to search with custom filtering criteria? An "All [Technology > Open Hardware] Projects" page would be a start, but beyond that it would be good to also then filter or sort that list by other criteria like time to end, popularity, total or funded amounts, or keyword searches in arbitrary combinations.

Answer 1

I have the same problem and unfortunately advanced search/filters seems not available at the moment. It could be a good idea contact them and ask to implement such features, especially now that Kickstarter seems to grown a lot in popularity after Double Fine Adventure success and have a lot of new projects.

Anyway, back to your question, the only unfiltered lists I found were the Recently Launched and the Ending Soon lists. You can scroll them and find interesting projects you want to found.

Answer 2

It appears that "Kickstarer is hiding failures" and your issue may also be an intentended design choice.

Answer 3

This might be a bit late but I had the same problem so I wrote an app to do this back in October 2012. I just got around to wrapping it in a web site.

For Example:

Here are the latest Technology projects sorted by newest first

The site is Kickspy.com and it's still very early days. But the other feature I've exposed is that it attempts to give you personalized recommendations based on your Kickstarter profile. So if you have a Kickstarter Profile ( mine for example - www.kickstarter.com/profile/wal7er), just replace kickstarter.com with kickspy.com (like this - www.kickspy.com/profile/wal7er - might take up to 2 minutes to load depending on caching - still have to fix this).

There are a few things I still want to add like "Email me this list" and "Save this search". Otherwise hope that helps and let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback

Cheers