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For the past year, I've been working on a standalone application to help me manage a mid-sized ($150k initial campaign, see: m) crowdfunding project. I wrote the app because the commercial solutions were completely unsuited to my needs. The project has gone through its lifecycle, finishing up by shi...

Campaign is now live, and there's a link to download the alpha of the App.

@sbriggman: I looked into BackerKit at some length but for what I wanted to do, it seemed too limited. One of the nice things about doing a FIleMaker application is that if you really need to, you can get under the hood and implement a custom solution to your particular problem (though I've abstract...

EDIT: Campaign is now live , and there's a link to download the alpha of the App. Hi, everyone. When I completed my first KickStarter campaign , raising over $150k from several thousand backers, I quickly realized that none of the commercially-available campaign fulfillment tools had anywhere near t...

Don't assume you know what your backers really want. Ask them for suggestions about stretch goals and reward levels -- often you will get enthusiastic backers who will want you to craft a reward specifically for them.

The caveat here is don't get carried away and make promises you can't keep.

If there is one bit of advice I would give project managers, it is that what you are providing your backers is not just a product but also the experience of seeing the product developed and delivered -- you are letting them into the sausage factory. So frequent project updates are a must. I've done ...

I looked into a bunch of them when I did my first KickStarter ($150k raised), but decided they were all too expensive. The issue for project managers is that the logistics can get complex, so given that I am a an old-school programmer, I decided to build my own app to handle crowdfunding project man...