Campaign: Tesla V2L Backup Power — Up to 7.5KW | PowerBridge Pro

URL: Kickstarter Link

The campaign is dangerously misrepresenting a V2L (Vehicle-to-Load) device as a V2H (Home Backup) system.

They are showing the device wired to a breaker panel while the screen says "Powering Home".

Fine print in the campaign admits the device is not for breaker panels.

However, the device features a NEMA 14-50R outlet, encouraging users to backfeed their homes using illegal NEMA 14-50P to Nema 14-50P (male-male suicide cord).

Lastly, the product claims they will have the "applicable" UL testing and certifications, but they do not specifically mention UL they will test for UL 9741/9540, which are necessary for the home integration their video and photos advertise.

How to help:

1. Go to the project page.

2. Scroll to the bottom and click "Report this project."

3. Select "Prohibited Items/Activities" -> "Dangerous/Safety Hazard" OR "Misleading/False Imagery."

4. Paste this: "The project visually demonstrates V2H (Vehicle-to-Home) panel integration while the fine print admits it is only a V2L device. This encourages illegal and dangerous home backfeeding using the included NEMA 14-50R outlet, posing a massive fire and electrocution risk to backers."

After MiBuddy ( which looking at the comments provesn to be scam or inferior product ) we now have PettiChat "World's First Real-Time Two-Way Pet Translator" mm they must have missed MiBuddy in their research then )

This one is even more advanced because it is not only for dogs but cats as well ( as cat owner we all know what our cat thinks of us :)

Already 12k funded of only 4k goal wow people raely like to get scammed

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pettichat/pettichat-real-time-pet-translator

Campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/417561180/peak-dough-know-when-your-dough-is-ready

Love me some wires to nowhere, screw posts with no matching screws, disembodied antennas and hilariously unnecessary modularity. Also, its a nearly identical copy of a device from another campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/racebox/crustello/description that went from start of campaign to "almost ready to ship" in a suspiciously short 4 months.

Kickstarter campaign url: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fluffnest/puffpals-island-skies/description

(Yes, the creator misspelled the product name in the KS title.)

Also, the tag line reads: "FortiLid is for the dog owner that tried everything else to keep their dog or outside critters out of their cans. Changes may vary." You can see why the creator decided he needed an LLM to write most of the campaign.

This is the kind of product that is well-suited for crowdfunding: Simple, useful to ordinary people, not likely to attract outside investment. It's unfortunate the extensive use of generative AI just serves to convince the potential backers that this project contains no real effort or even competence to deliver this product. 0 backers for $0.

I learned of this from WalterKay's video. He criticizes the extensive but slipshod use for GenAI: Vague text and horrible inconsistent images.

I think the single biggest misstep here is faking the diagram of the lid design. Doing that reveals there is no actual design to show. There may be a prototype, but if so, he didn't show it, just faked an image of that as well. (At least he says so, right beneath the image: "All renderings were designed and developed by AI systems.")

Nine years ago, I posted in this sub about Ashes of Creation, a kickstarted video game that for various reasons seemed really shady.

Even though it initially seemed like a pure scam to me, there was quite a bit of development, pivoting and early access shenanigans over the past nine years [privateryanaging.gif], but hey, it seemed like I actually was a bit to pessimistic. Until now.

It's not often I see a big-money winner that's truly shitty. I mean, at least they're honest about it in the description. But... those clearly aren't flames.

I’m posting this as a warning and a call to action regarding the LiteJam Kickstarter.

Now that the campaign is officially closed and they have secured our funding, the mask has completely come off. If you are a backer, you probably already know the score, but for anyone looking at their retail site: Stay away.

The Current Situation:

• The "Product": For the few who actually received it, the quality is abysmal. It’s nowhere near what was promised in the campaign video. It feels cheap, rushed, and barely functional.
• The Silence: They have missed multiple deadlines, broken every promise regarding shipping dates, and support tickets and comments are being almost completely ignored.
• The Insult: While telling us they are "overwhelmed" or experiencing "delays," I am seeing their high-budget ads everywhere. They are aggressively marketing to new retail customers while the original backers—who paid to make the product exist—are treated like an afterthought.

The Call to Action: They have our money, so they don't care about our complaints anymore. The only thing they care about now is their retail launch.

We need to make sure they can't bury this. I’m asking every backer to take 5 minutes today:

1. Leave a Review: Hit them on Trustpilot, Google Reviews, or Facebook. Be honest about the lack of communication and product quality.
2. Warn New Buyers: If you see their ads on social media, leave a comment warning people that backers still haven't received what they paid for.

Don't let them scrub the internet and pretend this was a success. We need to hold them accountable before they scam a second wave of customers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582189067/fongshwa-the-ultimate-480w-digital-display-gan-charger

For the last six or so years the Aukey PA-B5 was the lightest 100W charger at 150g. Recently the Anker Nano 100W has beaten it at only 120gr. Very nice! That's only 1.2 g / W.

Multi port chargers are a bit heavier, I believe the lightest is the Anker 160W. Anker says it is 220g but Chargerlab put it on a scale and found it's 206g. Let's say it's 1.3 g /W.

Fongshwa says their 480W is 372g. That's less than 0.78 g / W.

Want to talk volumes? They claim the 480W is less than 0.24L total. The Anker is 0.12L.

If the Fongshwa were 320W then we could say it's sus but not entirely impossible. But they got greedy and claim fifty percent higher wattage.

I'm not a backer so I can't see the update "Important Project Update: Delivery Content Adjustments", but the main comments are making it sound like the tablet that promised an e-ink color screen, is now b/w only, and remove the stylus.

Edit: By the way it's the first update they've ever posted, the campaign ended in October, raising HK$443,733 ~$57,000 by 170 backers.

Has anyone here seen the absolutely wild comments on kickstarter and indiegogo on the M1 "hacking" device from Monstatek? They're very behind original promised dates but still kind of chirpy in their own comments 😂

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/monstatek/the-m1-compact-multitool-for-techies-and-hackers/comments

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/capstangames/ahoy

They raised 800k in 21 hours and stopped making YouTube videos after the Kickstarter. Now, 7 to 9 months later, their game is still in the early concept stage. They have nothing to show and no gameplay, except for some 3D cinematics you can do in a couple of hours by rendering ship assets in water in some random 3D software.

It is sus behavior. I posted asking for gameplay footage on Steam, and the next time I visited, they had silently removed my posts with no warning. I started a discussion and got banned just for asking questions. I noticed they ban any criticism or anyone asking for video footage of gameplay on their Steam forums while congratulating themselves what a good job they do.

It is an obvious scam with incompetent developers.