Whether you’re a project creator or a backer, this app from the world’s leading crowdfunding Site, ‘Kickstarter’ lets you actively participate in projects. With it you can explore creative crowdfunded projects of all types – tech, the arts, design, film, music, games, etc. & use the app to pledge money to your favorites & to see how they’re coming along. If you’re a project creator, you can even track your project’s status while you’re on the go.
Kickstarter is a Brooklyn, New York, USA-based public benefit corporation which is focused on promoting creative projects through its Online crowdfunding platform. Since its launch in 2009 it has funded over a quarter of a million projects & raised almost US $2 billion from more than 9 million backers.
The model behind Kickstarter is based on the time honored concept of patronage, wherein artists (& others) would be directly funded by their audiences. In exchange for their financial backing, Kickstarter project teams offer their patrons tangible rewards, like early access to the sponsored products or services.
This way of doing things gets around the usually harder way of obtaining seed capital & investment funding, & opens up opportunities for getting promising ideas off the ground that would otherwise go unfunded.
The app allows backers & creators to do a number of things that would normally have to be accomplished from the Kickstarter Website, & that can now be managed from your iPhone or iPad, like:
- Back projects & help new ideas to take off
- Stay up to date with updates from projects you’re backing
- Follow friends & get notified when they’re backing or launching a project
- Manage a list of favorite projects & get notifications about them
- Share your favorite projects with friends via social media or messaging
- & if you’re a project creator you can track your funding progress, keep up with pledges or comments & post updated comments & respond to messages from backers
Click here to download the app on your iOS device.
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