{"id":596,"date":"2009-12-11T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-12-11T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:17:28","slug":"micro-funding-for-micro-isvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Micro-funding for micro-ISVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/help\/faq\" target=\"_blank\">KickStarter<\/a> is a site where artists, musicians, etc can post their project ideas and ask for funding from fans. if they hit their funding targets, the contributors get billed and usually get some exclusive or premium access to the item being created. There are a number of stories of independent musicians getting a few thousand dollars needed to record albums, and scaled levels of rewards for contributors based on how much they gave.<\/p>\n<p>It made me wonder if something like that would work for developers? It could provide some level of financial security during development, almost like micro-funding for micro-ISVs, and also some level of validation of your idea. Not sure if offering the end result exclusively to those contributing would work (maybe it would work for libraries and components, saving 10 people from writing a Delphi wrapper for the Facebook API, for example) but perhaps a premium-version for founding members, or a percentage of sales?<\/p>\n<p>Does this exist somewhere? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KickStarter is a site where artists, musicians, etc can post their project ideas and ask for funding from fans. if they hit their funding targets, the contributors get billed and usually get some exclusive or premium access to the item being created. There are a number of stories of independent musicians getting a few thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}