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Ask HN: What's the best crowdfunding website for a programming book?
I have recently started to work on a programming book and I would like to launch a crowdfunding campaign to fund the project.
What's the crowdfunding website you would recommend me for something like that?
- codegladiator 9y agoKick starter Indiegogo Patreon edit: not in any order
- gus_massa 9y agoHave you written a book before? Do you have a sample chapter?
- vivaladav 9y agono, first one, but I have been (tech) blogging for a while. I am working on the ToC for now, sample chapter will be next.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 9y agoWhat's it about?
- vivaladav 9y agoC++, performance and optimization
- gluejar 9y agoLeanpub. Please don't think of it as "crowdfunding" think of it as "audience building".
- vivaladav 9y agoit looks like a great platform, even if it seems their userbase is not that big. Is that right?
- claudiulodro 9y ago(No judgement. Just curious) Why does a book need crowdfunding? Between ebooks and print-on-demand it's never been easier or cheaper to self-publish. What would the crowdfunding money be spent on?
- vivaladav 9y agoAs you said publishing is not the problem these days (usually), but writing the book will take months of work and I will also need money to buy hardware and software licenses. Furthermore a crowdfunding campaign can help measuring interest in the project and should also help building a community before the launch.
- subsidd 9y agoThe author of "you don't know js" successfully crowdfunded on kickstarter
- vivaladav 9y agoI will check this campaign out, thanks
- drallison 9y agoWhat will distinguish your book over all of the other C++ books around? What is it you want people to learn from your book?
- vivaladav 9y agoit won't be about learning C++ as there are already too many, but it will be more about optimization and performance, from low level code to design decisions. Ideally the target won't be only experts, but also new programmers who want to learn how to write better code.
- drallison 9y agoIf you are writing about "optimization and performance, from low level code to design decisions" why limit yourself to C++? Won't most of what you have to say be language independent?