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...
Behind the Scenes: Meet BackerKit’s Head Designer
When we say a product is 'well-designed', it's not only aesthetically pleasing, but it also meets and anticipates the needs of its users. A product's functional...
Sending Out Surveys Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Sending out surveys can be daunting, especially if your project has a large number of backers. Even the smallest of mistakes can generate confusion and spark a ...
Tracking and Analyzing Emails Using Webhooks
Our application is driven by calls to action delivered to project backers via email. We send ~2 million emails a month with 98%+ deliverability.
Given the impo...