What if we told you that all you have to do to make your dreams come true is come up with an idea, write it down in 500 words and make a short video before sitting back and letting the cash roll in. Simple right?

Or so the crowd funding dream would tell you – in reality it’s far harder than that. But what the platform does is provide an insight into what snowboarding innovators have bubbling away before products hit the market, whether it’s a rad movie proposal like Marie France Roy’s Little Things project, the Lets Be Nomads powder chasing hostel or something from the other end of the scale: something far, far worse.

So after an ‘interesting’ afternoon browsing the depths of sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo we came up with a list of the best, the worst and the downright dumb snowboard crowdfunding ideas – enjoy!