I have recently started to work on a programming book and I would like to launch a crowdfunding campaign to fund the project.
What's the crowdfunding website you would recommend me for something like that?
Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#2Kick starter
Indiegogo
Patreon
edit: not in any order
Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#3Have you written a book before? Do you have a sample chapter?
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#4Have you written a book before? Do you have a sample chapter?
no, first one, but I have been (tech) blogging for a while.
I am working on the ToC for now, sample chapter will be next.
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#5What's it about?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#6Leanpub. Please don't think of it as "crowdfunding" think of it as "audience building".
Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#7What's it about?
C++, performance and optimization
Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#8Leanpub. Please don't think of it as "crowdfunding" think of it as "audience building".
it looks like a great platform, even if it seems their userbase is not that big. Is that right?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
#9(No judgement. Just curious) Why does a book need crowdfunding? Between ebooks and print-on-demand it's never been easier or cheaper to self-publish. What would the crowdfunding money be spent on?
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#10(No judgement. Just curious) Why does a book need crowdfunding? Between ebooks and print-on-demand it's never been easier or cheaper to self-publish. What would the crowdfunding money be spent on?
As you said publishing is not the problem these days (usually), but writing the book will take months of work and I will also need money to buy hardware and software licenses.
Furthermore a crowdfunding campaign can help measuring interest in the project and should also help building a community before the launch.