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I don't love the idea that someone might be so disinterested in their own crowdfunding campaign to have to launch it from a smartphone, rather than spending the
by bkanber 13y ago
I don't love the idea that someone might be so disinterested in their own crowdfunding campaign to have to launch it from a smartphone, rather than spending the time to do it from a proper computer.
- prawn 13y agoI agree. Starting with "Finally" seems like a bit of a stretch. Solution in need of a problem?
- bigiain 13y agoI've got exactly the same first reaction. Trying to read something useful and/or noble into this effort though – I do have friends who don't own a "proper computer", and manage all their non-work internet on their phones. I do find it hard to make a jump from "I don't have a computer, but I've got an idea that other people might fund on something like Kickstarter" to "I know, I'll download an app and run my Kickstarter from my iPhone".
- marek12886 13y agoThis app is more geared towards casual/everyday use cases and lowers the barrier to make those things happen. This isn't necessarily for large scale crowdfunding projects.
- ddinh 13y agoA mobile dev at Crowdtilt told me a few weeks ago that the app was meant for small-scale situations such as splitting a dinner bill between friends. I doubt any large-scale public campaign would be started from a phone.
- DesaiAshu 13y agoConsider this: I see a pothole on my street, I hate it so I take a picture and tweet about how I wish it was gone. Enter crowdtilt, instead, I take a picture and create a campaign, it gets shared on facebook and twitter and suddenly a movement to fix the pothole has started. Worst case the campaign doesn't tilt and it's the equivalent of a tweet, best case we raise money to actually fix the damn thing, talk about putting your money where your mouth is! While this behavior may not exist yet, I see a future where this app enables people to make much stronger statements about change they would like to see and gives them a dead simple way to contribute to those changes (plus all the fun spontaneous social stuff :).
- ajaymehta 13y agoThis comment is totally on the mark. Campaigns like that pothole example are already popping up on Crowdtilt! Check this (currently live) campaign out: a community in Oakland feels unsafe in their neighborhood and isn't being helped out by the local PD, so they're pooling funds together for private security: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/security-patrol-for-lower-rockridge-southwest https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/security-patrol-for-lowe...
- ukd1 13y agoThis is an awesome use of Crowdtilt...though I'm glad I don't live there myself!