The famed “potato salad” project, which raised north of $55,000 in little over a month on Kickstarter, is cooking up more than just copycats.
While the viral campaign was intended to be an Internet joke, users say it underscores a growing problem: a rising number of frivolous — some would even say fraudulent — projects cluttering up the crowdfunding site.
And they say Kickstarter is largely to blame.
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