Open Source Crowd Funding Platforms

Based on Ruby

Catarse

http://catarse.me/pt
Catarse is an open source crowdfunding platform, launched in Brazil for creative projects

• Software Stack
  • It’s a Ruby on Rails app
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats: Fork – 390; Star – 27
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • MoIP
• Success Stories
  • In a unique fundraising campaign Daily Dogs, an animal lover created a book with drawings of dogs. On successful sale of the book, 30% of the value collected would be converted into dog and cat food of the best quality for animal shelters. Initial Goal for the project was $18,000 and the Final tally was $24,687.

Crowdtilt

https://open.crowdtilt.com/
Crowdtilt Open is an open-source, customizable crowdfunding platform

• Software Stack
  • RVM, ruby 1.9.3, and the Rails gem
  • Can be deployed to Heroku
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats: Fork – 167; Star – 327
• Payment Gateway
  • Bitcoin
• Success Stories
  • Soylent crowdfunding campaign, raised $2,000,000 against their goal of $100,000

Selfstarter

http://selfstarter.us
Selfstarter is an open source starting point for building your own ad-hoc crowdfunding site.

• Software Stack
  • It’s a Ruby on Rails app that makes heavy use of SCSS, Kickstarter’s wonderful amazon_flex_pay gem, and a hint of CoffeeScript
  • procfile included so can be easily deployed on Heroku
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats:Fork – 1,304; Star – 2,521
• Payment Gateway
  • Amazon Payments
  • Can be integrated with other systems
• Success Stories
  • Built by Lockitron after they were rejected by Kickstarter
  • Initial goal of $150,000 was reached in 24 hours. Final tally: $1,500,000
  • Full story in TechCrunch’s The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter

Based on PHP

Crowdfunding

http://itprism.com/free-joomla-extensions/ecommerce-gamification/crowdfunding-collective-raising-capital
Crowdfunding is a Joomla! extension that provides functionality for building and managing websites for collective fundraising

• Software Stack
  • Joomla Plugin (PHP)
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats:Fork – 17; Star – 18
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • Bitcoin
  • Bank transfer
  • iDEAL via Mollie
  • AuthorizeNet
  • WePay
• Misc
  • Pro version requires an ITPrism membership and has an associated cost

Gittip

https://www.gittip.com/
Gittip is a crowdfunding site for freelancers wanting to make a living out of their passions, and their compensation is based on continuous, anonymous “microdonations” from patrons

• Software Stack
  • Drupal (PHP & MySQL)
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats:Fork – 173; Star – 610
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • Bitcoin
  • Credit Cards
• Success Stories
  • Gittip Stats indicate 2696 active users and $12,747.74 changed hands last Thursday. $12,120.48 is ready for this Thursday

Goteo

http://goteo.org/
Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration with open code

• Software Stack
  • Apache/php/mysql
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats:Fork – 114; Star – 104
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • Credit Cards
• Success Stories
  • House Symbcity is a nonprofit project initiated by students to create prototype of a self sufficient housing of the existing obsolete housing blocks. Minimum requirement was Euro 7790 and received Euro 9510 with 31 days remaining

Ignitiondeck

http://ignitiondeck.com/id/
Ignition Deck is a WordPress Crowdfunding platform, to crowdfund, pre-sell or raise funds for projects

• Software Stack
  • WordPress
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
• Success Stories
  • Star Citizen Project raised a whopping $4,104,189.00, using a custom version of the IgnitionDeck WordPress crowdfunding plugin. Star Citizen has also received an additional $3,044,770.00 through its website using IgnitionDeck

Based on Python

Freedomsponsonrs

https://freedomsponsors.org/
Freedomsponsors is a crowdfunding platform for programming tasks of Free and Open Source Software. It lets you help the Open Source projects you love by creating and collecting bounties

• Software Stack
  • Python+Django application
• Code Repository
  • Code available on GitHub
  • GitHub Stats:Fork – 37; Star – 83
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • Bitcoin

Not Open Source

Investedin

http://invested.in/
Investedin’s crowdfunding technology powers sites for brands like Coca-Cola, for banks like ATB Financial and for entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations

• Software Stack
  • Proprietary software
• Success stories
  • Crowdfunding to build a replacement fuel tank for Multistrada 1000 fetched $42,580 against a goal of $40,000

Launcht

http://www.launcht.com/
Lancht empowers universities, nonprofits, startup crowdfunding portals, competitions, and others to create their own custom white label crowdfunding platform

• Payment Gateway
  • WePay
• Success stories
  • Vassar college raised over $150,000 in a single day of crowdfunding and the highlights include 1229 donors with participation from every class since 1945!

Thrinacia

https://www.thrinacia.com/
Thrinacia is a SaaS White Label MultiVerse CrowdFunding Engine

• Software Stack
  • It’s PHP based
• Payment Gateway
  • Paypal
  • Stripe

Miscellaneous

Beex

http://beex.org/
Not active; website domain expired