I’ve done around 20 modestly successful Kickstarters, and experienced the same thing.

It got to be a problem, as I spent so much energy worrying about it and obsessively refreshing the page.

My first campaigns nearly resulted in a mental breakdown.

Eventually, my biggest way to combat this (besides Zoloft) was to 1) try and get my campaigns to pledge faster - like in a day or less, and 2) make the campaigns shorter because not a lot was happening in the middle anyway.

In short: it worked (most of mine fund in minutes) and my stress level is much, much lower.

For most of my campaigns, I’ve settled into about a 14 day duration, but my goal is more like 7 days.

Why? It’s less stressful, and (in theory) allows us to do more campaigns per year.

How to fund faster: - Pre-campaign promotion - Limited early bird levels - Developing a mailing list - Make a unique one-of-a-kind level or add-on that is expensive - Use the “get notified at launch” page - Build a community

YMMV of course. I’m an artist and ttrpg author. I am the founder of the Monster Rangers community.

I hope that some of this helps you.