Crowdfunding, open source and communities
summary
Interviews of 13 campaigns reveal concrete patterns: niche hardware projects face fabrication costs and verification hurdles, so teams adopt hardware drives open licensing and use crowdfunding as primary capital; earlier code or design release yields more contributions and feedback; communities become a family-like relationship that boosts retention and fends off clones, though some delay release to protect time-to-market; backers pay for physical goods or services not pure software; online updates and maker events matter but offline outreach is time-consuming.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 3:00Key Terms
- 6:10Relationship between Workers
- 14:12The Relationship between Crowdfunding Campaign Campaign Monitors and Communities
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