How to Spot a Crowdfunding Scam
It's an unfortunate, if somewhat unavoidable, reality: not all crowdfunding campaigns are what they seem. While the majority are run in a transparent, honest fa...
BackerKit Goes to Gen Con!
August 17-20 is the most wonderful time of the year, especially if you’re a gaming fanatic. For four days in August, Indianapolis will be gripped by Gen Con fev...
Who Are Your True Fans?
"To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To ma...
How A-CASE Managed a Mountain of Data
Backer management is taxing. Just ask A-CASE creator Aleksander Pawlinski. For his first Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Pawlinski attempted to wrangle the spr...
How to Find Your Community of Crowdfunding Champions
Behind every successful crowdfunding campaign is a legion of loyal supporters. When it comes to raising money, there's strength in numbers: the more backers in ...
Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres
In a previous post we explored how our application tracks sent emails. We set things up to update or insert a record for each email with the current state (deli...
From Surveyed to Shipped: The BackerKit Project Lifecycle
Visualizing the lifecycle of a crowdfunding campaign can prove difficult for first-time creators. This is particularly the case for the post-campaign phase, whi...
Getting Creative with Digital Rewards
The most memorable rewards of a crowdfunding campaign aren’t necessarily physical – and they're not always costly, either.
Digital and experiential rewards can...
How to Deal with Survey Stragglers
So you’ve sent out a BackerKit survey. Now what?
It’s a common misconception that all project creators need to do is wait until the responses roll in. While mo...
Shipping with BackerKit: DIY with Scale
Experimenting is an integral part of product development process at BackerKit. It helps us figure out ways to improve our services for creators and backers, and...
Building and Deploying Ruby Docker Images with CircleCI and Heroku
Heroku makes it dead simple to deploy and operate apps; Docker makes it even easier! Heroku has a Docker runtime in beta.
This article will review how to setup...
Have You Started Building Your Pre-Launch Email List?
Guest post by Mark Pecota, co-founder and CEO of LaunchBoom.
62.2% of Kickstarter projects fail to reach their funding goal. Why? Most focus on trying to get t...