Crowdhoster

Launch your own crowdfunding site

...without touching a line of code

No Coding

Never heard of a yml file? No worries! We take care of the code for you.

Free to Use

We don't charge a dime to set up and host your site; you keep your hard-earned funds.

Customizable

This is your site...make sure it expresses the look and feel that you're going for.

Based on the Selfstarter open source project

We believe there should be an open source crowdfunding platform, and we plan to continue making this one even more awesome. Big thanks to the Lockitron guys for getting this kicked off.

Features

Beautiful Project Page

Includes funding progress bar, sharing links, and customizable content areas

Seamless Checkout

Integration with the Crowdtilt API provides a smooth checkout experience—we take care of payment processing for you

Project Administration

Easy to use admin area for configuring settings and uploading content on the fly

Contributor Management

Quickly reference, communicate with, and manage your contributors from one spot

Why We're Doing This

When we launched the Crowdtilt API in December, our goal was to empower anyone and everyone to take advantage of group payments. Hundreds of developers have reached out to start hacking away on cool apps—but hundreds more have reached out looking for a solution that doesn't require hardcore coding expertise.

Enter Crowdhoster. Our aim is for you to launch your own custom crowdfunding site without having to touch a line of code. Inspired by Wordpress, we turned to an open source project to serve as the backbone of the site code. Selfstarter was the obvious choice here, thanks to the hard work of the crazy-talented Lockitron team. This led us to the two main aspects of our plan:

Dedicate a significant effort from our team to build upon the Selfstarter codebase, first and foremost integrating our API for a smoother and more robust collaborative payments process, but also adding killer features like user sign-in, project admin, and content management.
Provide a (free!) service at Crowdhoster.com where we'll get you up and running on your very own instance of Selfstarter...no coding required (think of it as the wordpress.com of crowdfunding).

Crowdhoster is invite-only at the moment as we get things up and running smoothly. We're eager to chat with folks about their ideas for crowdfunded projects.

And to the open source community: please join us in continuing to make the Selfstarter project better and better. We're picturing analytics tools, layout themes, plugins...the sky is the limit.

When groups of people pool resources together for a common objective, amazing things happen. We've only scratched the surface of this powerful movement—so go grab an invite and let's bring that idea of yours to life!

-The Crowdtilt Team