So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by ncasenmare » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site
hacks.mozilla.org

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by alokm » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

This coincidentally is also the Final Assignment of the Coursera course by Stanford "Startup Engineering". Every one there would be making a Node based, AWS powered, Bootstrap themed Crowdfunding site.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by jjsz » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

alokm wrote: post #2

This coincidentally is also the Final Assignment of the Coursera course by Stanford "Startup Engineering". Every one there would be making a Node based, AWS powered, Bootstrap themed Crowdfunding site.

They forgot about Crowdhoster. Or using BalancedPayments' APIs.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by brickmort » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

As a non-js based programmer, This is some excellent insight in what a webapp looks like when built with node.js. I'm definitely gonna be reading through this to get my feet wet with node, as it's something I've been meaning to do but have been so occupied with other languages. Thanks for sharing!

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by oostevo » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

alokm wrote: post #2

This coincidentally is also the Final Assignment of the Coursera course by Stanford "Startup Engineering". Every one there would be making a Node based, AWS powered, Bootstrap themed Crowdfunding site.

It's worth noting that Startup Engineering is basing its payment platform on Bitcoin whereas this Mozilla article covers Balanced Payments.

I also get the impression from the lectures so far that Startup Engineering isn't covering databases to any real extent, whereas the article covers MongoDB.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by nhangen » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 9:24 PM UTC

Crowdfunding tools should belong to the crowd? I'd like to hear more rationale on that statement.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by area51org » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

nhangen wrote: post #6

Crowdfunding tools should belong to the crowd? I'd like to hear more rationale on that statement.

I think he was being somewhat flippant. He's really saying: we think it should be easy to crowdfund something, so we're open-sourcing our own crowdfunding software.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by motter » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

Or you could fork selfstarter[1], which is what we used to allow users to reserve their username on http://microco.sm

[1] https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by jjsz » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 11:47 PM UTC

motter wrote: post #8

Or you could fork selfstarter[1], which is what we used to allow users to reserve their username on http://microco.sm [1] https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter

Crowdhoster is a fork of selfstarter bit it's behind a request form.

Re: So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site

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Post by mlebel » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 3:06 AM UTC

jjsz wrote: post #9

motter wrote: post #8

Or you could fork selfstarter[1], which is what we used to allow users to reserve their username on http://microco.sm [1] https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter

Crowdhoster is a fork of selfstarter bit it's behind a request form.

The source and a readme to set up your own instance of Crowdhoster is at http://github.com/Crowdtilt/Crowdhoster.

Feel free to email lebel@crowdtilt.com if you need any help setting it up!