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backerkit.com
Company blog · backerkit.com/blog · on HN as mbs348startupsbusinessprogramming
backerkit.com is the company blog at backerkit.com, writing about startups, business and programming. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments mention BackerKit as a crowdfunding service for managing backers and fulfilment, including how it imports Kickstarter backer data. Links include its BackerTracker funding-predictions post and job listings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-15
What Hacker News says?
BackerKit (YC W13) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.backerkit.com BackerKit is the best way for crowdfunding creators to manage their backers, help fulfill their campaign on time, and allow them to focus on what they love doing—making something awesome! We've helped thousands of creators to raise over $115M, supporting them in everything from surveys to shipping. To learn more about who we are, our enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres as a story · 113 points
HN discussionhttps://www.backerkit.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-scite... It's a bit bleak indeed. The "open-sourcing the sciter" post [0] has gained almost no traction, news coverage [1] etc. This hn thread is the first time I heard of this kickstarter myself. I think with a bit of marketing, the goal is absolutely reachable. Also there are plenty of grants and foundations that support open source projects. It's likely that…
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on “ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable”Submitted BackerTracker: Track crowdfunding projects and see how much they'll raise as a story · 56 points
HN discussionBackerKit (YC W13) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.backerkit.com BackerKit is the best way for crowdfunding creators to manage their backers, help fulfill their campaign on time, and allow them to focus on what they love doing—making something awesome! We've helped thousands of creators to raise over $115M, supporting them in everything from surveys to shipping. To learn more about who we are, our enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Sierra On-Line Documentary to be made with impressive ex-employee cast as a story · 32 points
HN discussionBackerKit| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.backerkit.com/careers BackerKit is the best way for crowdfunding creators to manage their backers, help fulfill their campaign on time, and allow them to focus on what they love doing—making something awesome! We've helped thousands of creators to raise over $115M, supporting them in everything from surveys to shipping. Here are our open roles: - Senior Software De…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted Developer’s Guide to Successful Distributed Teams as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs I understand it: Project creators log in to Kickstarter and utilize a Chrome bookmarklet provided by BackerKit, which then reads/scrapes the backer infomation from Kickstarter and sends it to BackerKit.[1] It's kind of messy, but frankly ingenious considering there's no alternatives. One of BackerKit's founders is/was involved with Diaspora, which was a Kickstarter project. Having the Kickstarter project admin in…
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on “Kickstarter Fulfillment”Submitted Tariffs and Tabletop: A Message from Cephalofair Games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting, this is like the second Kickstarter support company I've heard of in as many days - a KS I supported is using BackerKit[1] to help manage their fulfillment. There's also Topatoco's Make That Thing[2], though that's currently invite-only, mostly to people who're already part of the Topatoco empire. This is definitely a new flavor of B2B service opening up. If I wasn't so busy working on the content for m…
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on “Kickstarter Fulfillment”Submitted Using Rails’ MessageVerifier for Stateless Token Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI can second this recommendation, and broaden it to everything James Burke has ever done for BBC. He is an amazing science scholar, and also quite witty. He makes amazing educational programming. I especially enjoy Connections [1] and its sequel series, as well as the lesser-known The Day the Universe Changed [2] series, about the impact of science and technology on society, from a philosophical point-of-view, rathe…
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on “Your Career in Computer Programming (2015)”Submitted Show HN: Crowdfunding by BackerKit (YC W13) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore on how the funding projections work here: https://www.backerkit.com/blog/85-backertracker-predictions-...
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on “BackerTracker: Track crowdfunding projects and see how much they'll raise”Submitted Building and Deploying Ruby Docker Images with CircleCI and Heroku as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCrowdfunding is big in the table top rpg industry. Lots of small companies used it for new products and even reprints. But for the past 6 months or so, they've been slowly moving to backerkit. Including a $4mil funding of one of them: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/mcdm-productions/mcdm-r...
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on “The $100M Deal for Kickstarter to use Blockchain”Submitted How to Do Lead Ads for a Kickstarter Launch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFunny to see two different S12 teams tackling Kickstarter fulfillment in complimentary ways - the other is Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com
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on “So you have a successful Kickstarter campaign. Now what?”Submitted Experimentation Kept Us Shipping Code and Growing Through a Pandemic as a story · 1 points
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