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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site
- alokm 13y agoThis 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.
- jjsz 13y agoThey forgot about Crowdhoster. Or using BalancedPayments' APIs.
- oostevo 13y agoIt'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.
- brickmort 13y agoAs 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!
- pewallin 13y agoIf you are new to Javascript you should note that this tutorial makes heavy use of Promises which is one way to handle callbacks piling up, but it's not the only way, or even the most common.
- nhangen 13y agoCrowdfunding tools should belong to the crowd? I'd like to hear more rationale on that statement.
- area51org 13y agoI 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.
- motter 13y agoOr you could fork selfstarter[1], which is what we used to allow users to reserve their username on http://microco.sm http://microco.sm [1] https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter
- jjsz 13y agoCrowdhoster is a fork of selfstarter bit it's behind a request form.
- mlebel 13y agoThe source and a readme to set up your own instance of Crowdhoster is at http://github.com/Crowdtilt/Crowdhoster http://github.com/Crowdtilt/Crowdhoster. Feel free to email lebel@crowdtilt.com if you need any help setting it up!