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Thank you. I have some ideas for you guys. KickStarter doesn't want to go the route of "being a store" and selling pre-sales. This is EXACTLY what a lot of us want and the…

One day self-crowdfunding will be as easy as hosting a blog. Not yet, but this is a good step towards that direction. I certainly wouldn't mind it if in 10 years crowdfunding is…

Some projects like Lockitron aren't allowed anymore, so that's a big reason for them not using Kickstarter (and app.net I don't think was allowed either). But another reason is…

"Just stay within the law" And what law would that be? Clearly I would guess that you mean "US law", but isn't this an important piece of information to anyone hoping to fund a…

There's no guarantee of getting your money back if a project fails on Kickstarter though...…

I read somewhere that the challenge with posting your projects with Kickstarter is getting the attention of people and hence most of them do not reach their funding goal.

Kickstarter or self-hosted crowdfunding site, getting the attention of people is going to be the difference. With Kickstarter there is at least some sort of community and set of…

You would seem a lot more professional and trust worthy if you didn't have the word SHIT in your tagline.

Thank you. I have some ideas for you guys. KickStarter doesn't want to go the route of "being a store" and selling pre-sales. This is EXACTLY what a lot of us want and the…

Are there any hosted SelfStarter services that work with bitcoin?

These are all great points. If you do go this route, I'd spend a bit of time on figuring out the proper way to handle the actual exchange of money from escrow to product holder…

Is this new framework your baby? I really love the idea of being able to tailor a kickstarter style effort more to product pre-orders instead of trying to shoehorn it into…

It has no problem to run a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter until Kickstarter disallows you to do that on their platform. SelfStarter was created by the Lockitron team to run…

As a user I would feel more comfortable buying from a trusted source such as kickstarter because I feel like there is more of a guarantee of getting my money back if the project…

It has no problem to run a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter until Kickstarter disallows you to do that on their platform. SelfStarter was created by the Lockitron team to run…

I think as an entrepreneur, you are gonna need to do your homework and figure out how to get the attention to your project regardless of using Kickstarter or not. Lockitron was a…

We built the exact same service last month http://www.jumpcrowd.com/ The hosted SelfStarter movement will open up crowdfunding in the same way services like Blogger and WordPress…