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Yes! We had 1500 attendees, which was on the low end of what I was hoping. In 9 hours, we distributed all 450lbs of potato salad! In the first hour, we sold out of our festival t-shirt (300 t-shirts, $10 from each went to the Columbus Foundation). We raised $18,000 from sponsorship alone!

We had cooking demonstrations for kids. The local, independent radio station had DJs doing stage announcements. We had 6 awesome local bands play. It felt like everyone in attendance was really happy to be there celebrating something so silly.

TL;DR: It was a huge success and I was really happy to be a part of it!

1.) Yep! They were all very supportive. Though, I could tell that it was putting a lot of stress on friends and family. There wasn't a LOT of trolling going on, but my friends would read every negative comment / article and get upset about it. My mom got in a (verbal) fight with someone at work because he said something like "have you heard of this idiot on the internet that raised a ton of money for potato salad?" So, TL;DR, they were super supportive, but you should never read the comments on the internet.

2.) Amazing. I've always enjoyed writing and telling jokes. The early response to the joke was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. This news anchor laughing so hard she started crying was one of the things that really made me happy: http://www.kare11.com/video/3660515027001/1/Kickstarter-project-created-to-make-potato-salad

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No way! I want to include people as much as possible. Also, there is no such thing as crappy potato salad.

No! They were really happy with it! I did a Q&A there in August.

I think this Kickstarter was funny because it was novel. If I did it again, it would be derivative.