Originally Posted by Avantre 
I didn't hear much warning before Chris Robert's game was out asking for money, for example.
The official website had been open for about a month before the "full throttle" into crowdfunding. It had over 20k signed accounts already…
Basically you have to be part of a tiny community to know that X or Y are going to do a Kickstarter. I knew about Hero-U for a while because a fan keep talking about it in the Project Eternity Kickstarter comment section.