As I understand it: Project creators log in to Kickstarter and utilize a Chrome bookmarklet provided by BackerKit, which then reads/scrapes the backer infomatio

As 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 interface (with actual backers) handy to develop and test the bookmarklet against was probably quite a boon. I could be wrong, though. tl;dr Kickstarter really needs an API. [1] https://www.backerkit.com/faq https://www.backerkit.com/faq