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Shmideo.com

We're going to build an awesome Jewish site for awesome people, and fill it with awesome videos and awesome games. Awesome.

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Shmideo.com

We're going to build an awesome Jewish site for awesome people, and fill it with awesome videos and awesome games. Awesome.

We're going to build an awesome Jewish site for awesome people, and fill it with awesome videos and awesome games. Awesome.

We're going to build an awesome Jewish site for awesome people, and fill it with awesome videos and awesome games. Awesome.

We're going to build an awesome Jewish site for awesome people, and fill it with awesome videos and awesome games. Awesome.

DovBer Naiditch
DovBer Naiditch
DovBer Naiditch
DovBer Naiditch
1 Campaign |
Pittsburgh, United States
$15,037 USD 168 backers
100% of $15,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

It looks like an old comic book!

Short Summary!

We're going to build a site full of awesome, original, Jewy media, where people can come to waste time playing games and watching hilarious videos. You know that story in the talmud where the sage Rabbah used to tell jokes before starting his lessons? Sure you do. Well we're like that joke, except over a couple of hours, and probably not in Aramaic. Ka mashma lan.

What We'll Need & What You'll Get!

Dovid "working"As we go along, we'll be able to create fresh content through ad revenue and direct donations, but to start it up from the ground, we'll need funds to pay our writers, designers, illustrators, animators, actors, programmers and puppeteers (Dovid, DovBer, and Sruli)

We took a good long look at ourselves in the mirror, and after that small vanity, we sat down and figured what it was that we wanted to give you:

  • New Itche Kadoozy Episodes! Including a complete season written specifically for Twitter's Vine! Can we tell a good story in six seconds? No! Will that stop us? No!
  • Shais Time Animated Shorts! With world renowned speaker and author, Shais Taub! He's world renowned!
  • Expertly wrought Hasidic Stories written by our own DovBer Naiditch! He's a writer!
  • Our fictionalized behind-the-scenes reality based program, "Tracht Gut!" About three lovable schlubs trying to make the world a better place through videos!
  • ShmideoLabs! Home of our awesome new Jewish inventions! (Featuring a real honest to goodness robot scientist! Hi Matt!)
  • And other awesome ideas we've talked about but not fully fleshed out!

 

You'll be getting a host of awesome byproducts as a result:

  • Your name on our Shmideo Tree of life!
  • A printable PDF Shmideo Poster!
  • A Personal Thank you from Itche Kadoozy himself!
  • Personal mention in one of our videos!
  • Special, event specific videos!
  • etc.!

The Potential Impact!

Judaism needs to be interactive. If we start making and creating, we hope that other people will be encouraged to do the same. Maybe they'll contribute to our site.  Maybe they'll become a competitor. Either way, you get contemporary Jews interacting with a 3,000 year old identity through new ideas.

What about changing people? We don't want to. We love you just the way you are. We don't want you to stop wasting time on the internet, we just want to make time-wasting more meaningful. Lets take the power that the internet has--to share pictures of pets and play meaningless games--and uplift it to sharing pictures of pets with little blue silk kippas and playing Jewish themed Space Invaders!

Other Ways You Can Help!

Did that meshulach take your last ten-spot? No worries, that guy probably needs it anyways. Dude's got more debt than a developing country--and more kids. But you can still help us by e-mailing everyone you know about our project and posting our hilarious video on your facebook!  We'll get viewers, you'll get to show off your finely honed taste in videos, and your friends get to watch something funny - everybody wins!

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Nothing!

$1 USD
For a dollar, you get nothing. But remember, to mystics like us, Nothingness is the loftiest of spiritual heights!
Estimated Shipping
August 2013
2 claimed

You're In Our Prayers!

$5 USD
For the mere mereness of $5, we will briefly think about you as we pray to G-d! Your name and possibly visage will ascend along with our prayers to the highest level our prayers can reach! (Which is, honestly, maybe as high as, like, a really tall tree, where they kind of float for a while until holier peoples' prayers pick them up.)
Estimated Shipping
August 2013
11 claimed

Virtual Tree of Life!

$10 USD
You know that big bronze tree on the wall of your synagogue with all the plaque-leaves honoring people? This is like that, but with less bronze and more pixels. For a mere 10 dollars, we'll put your name on our tasteful and not at all gaudy Virtual Tree of Life hosted on our very own website! It's a digital representation of something that's already a sculptural representation! Meta.
Estimated Shipping
September 2013
11 out of 11452 of claimed

PDF Poster!

$18 USD
For an extra eight dollars (18 is Chai!), you'll get your name on our Virtual Tree, plus we'll send you a sweet PDF Poster for Shmideo.com! Put it it in your room, or better yet, somewhere with lots of foot traffic! Free advertising! Yay!
Estimated Shipping
September 2013
27 out of 1000003 of claimed

Itche Kadoozy Call!

$36 USD
Don't call us! For a mere thirty six dollars, a member of the Itche Kadoozy show will pick up the phone with his tiny puppet hands and call you! And what's more, he'll personally thank the person of your choice!
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
16 out of 531 of claimed

Bathroom Plaque!

$50 USD
For a mere $50 of your money, you can have your bathroom sponsored by the Bernstein-Zuckerman families! Get a lovingly crafted replica of our pitch video throw away gag today!
Estimated Shipping
December 2013
8 out of 500 of claimed

Mention Your Name!

$54 USD
For the slightly more mere (or is it less mere?) price of fifty four dollars, we'll cleverly weave your name into one of our original Shmideo Videos! (If we get bazillions of these, the cleverness may decrease substantially)
Estimated Shipping
March 2014
9 out of 137 of claimed

NEW! Shmortrait!

$72 USD
Be immortalized in cartoon or puppet form by one of the Shmideo artists! You'll receive a one-of-a-kind, signed image created by Sruli Broocker or Dovid Taub. You pick which one of us gets to feel rejected!
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
3 out of 30 of claimed

NEW! Shmideo Virtual Workshop!

$90 USD
Spend on hour with the Shmideo Team on Skype or Hangout working on whatever creative endeavor you want. Need help crafting a story? How about an animation lesson? Or perhaps a one-on-one puppet building tutorial? We're all yours! For an hour. Then we'll hang up and go get lunch.
Estimated Shipping
December 2013
0 out of 30 of claimed

NEW! Shmadvertise!

$100 USD
$200 worth of advertising space on Shmideo.com PLUS a custom ad designed and written by the Shmideo team. It will be so funny you'll go to our site just to see it again. And thereby use up your allotted number of views.
Estimated Shipping
September 2013
4 out of 50 of claimed

Personal Story!

$180 USD
A tiny story about how awesome you are (it's fictional) by our writer in residence, DovBer Naiditch!
Estimated Shipping
February 2014
3 out of 47 of claimed

Puppet Likeness!

$360 USD
Make a cameo apearance in one of our videos. As a puppet! Our crack puppet making team (Dovid) will assemble a puppet that looks just like you (but more.. puppety) and use it in a Shmideo video. It will be just like looking in a mirror made of felt.
Estimated Shipping
May 2014
2 out of 52 of claimed

Probably a Relative!

$800 USD
If you're giving us this much it's because you're probably related! You get the warm vicarious glow of our success. See you at cousin Izzy's Bar Mitzvah!
Estimated Shipping
September 2013
0 out of 56895371 of claimed

Event Video!

$1,800 USD
The boy's a big Itche fan? For a hundred times Chai the whole gang will wish him Mazal Tov for his Bar Mitzvah on a 30 second video made just for you! We'll do weddings and anniversaries too!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
0 out of 11 of claimed

Kitchen Cleaning!

$18,000 USD
For $18,000, we'll come to your city and clean your kitchen for Pesach! But it'll have to be sometime during winter break. And we won't do a very good job. Honestly, you probably shouldn't do this one.
Estimated Shipping
February 2014
0 out of 18000 of claimed
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