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Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

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Re: Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

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Post by yarone »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #8

A couple months ago, I had added "kickstarter widget for start-up websites" to my list of ideas that I never do, but think are cool. This is a really wonderful open-source contribution, so hat tip! We also ordered a Lockitron for our office already. We have keypads on our house, and we love them, and imagine Lokcitron will be even more love.

RE: your "kickstarter widget" idea, you may want to check out invested.in - they have a white label crowdfunding platform with that feature.

Disclaimer: it's my brother's company.

Re: Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

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Post by helen842000 »

ccamrobertson wrote: post #44
akennberg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am currently running a Kickstarter campaign and I must say that this is far from being a trend. The run away success campaigns have a track record and a following, which is leveraged to create the initial PR push. Without hitting 20% funding very early on the project has very little chance of succeeding (kickstarter stats). A lot of our pledging happened from traffic coming directly from Kickstarter. My guess here…

I agree - I believe that hardware products that are accepted to Kickstarter should still leverage its inherent momentum. Based on reports from project creators, I have heard anywhere from 30-50% of traffic comes sources internal to Kickstarter.

Maybe the way around this with selfstarter is to have a simple directory page, anyone using the skeleton to create a project can submit their URL. That could be the agregator for those folks to browse through multiple projects. It would be another source of traffic for projects.

Re: Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

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Post by outdooricon »

This is really nice! If a project got accepted into Kickstarter, would it be better to stay with them or use this instead? The benefit of exposure to a large community as a Kickstarter project is pitted against the extra 5% that they take... How do you turn exposure into a monetary value for comparison? Pricing of ads maybe?
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