Kickstarter clone in Drupal?
Drupal would likely handle the basic concept of listings rather adeptly, but you'd need to write plenty of glue code to make it match the exact functionality you want. It would, in fact, be easier to write it from scratch than to force a tool to do a different job.
Go for a full-fledged web app framework.
I would like to create a Kickstarter type clone in terms of functionality.
Can Drupal produce a crude prototype?  
Or suck it up, hit the books and learn python/django or ruby/rails.
I appreciate any and all input.