Launcher

Launch your own crowdfunding platform.

Disclaimers

This is a self-promotion for NeverFold in exchange for open-sourcing our own crowdfunding platform after being rejected by Kickstarter on the basis of 'home improvement'.

Actual examples are the best teachers so we're using NeverFold's actual experiences in this project. Feel free to re-use content and alter them however you see fit.

We strongly encourage you to come up with your own Privacy Policy and Terms -- we left that intact as a guide for your next big thing!

Stripe is used for payment processing.

Last but not least, this project assumes you are comfortable with Rails. NeverFold is not responsible for anything that may go wrong with your project.

Good luck!

Supported Third-Party Services

Stripe
Facebook
Twitter
Zendesk
Airbrake
MailChimp
Google Analytics
Woopra
GoSquared

Getting Started

Setting up your database

In this project, we used Postgres and it is free to install from http://postgresapp.com.

Configuring Launcher

There are few essential files that you must edit to get Launcher up and running.

rename file config/application.yml.example to config/application.yml and edit the file.
rename file config/database.yml.example renamed to config/database.yml and edit the file.
edit db/seed.rb to build your own rewards.
edit config/routes.rb to route your social media requests.

Signing up for third-party services

Refer to application.yml for details and links to sign up for your accounts.

You will at the most need assigned API keys to enable your third-party services with Launcher. Once you have those API keys in hand, update config/application.yml

Get Launcher up and running

run rake db:migrate (make sure your database is set up first)
run rake db:seed
start the server

Using Heroku

If you're using Heroku, you can copy the application.yml configurations over with one line of command in terminal:

rake figaro:heroku

Launcher Wish List

Amazon Payment as an alternate form of collecting funds

Contact

Please contact me at launcher (at) neverfold (dot) com if you're using this project for your next big thing. I'll add your website to the list here.

Again, good luck!

chadwtaylor/launcher