We The Trees/ CrowdfundHQ - both Catarse?

[Josef Davies-Coates]

Hi all,

I note the http://www.wethetrees.com now says "powered by CrowdfundHQ" whereas it used to say "powered by Catarse".

The site still looks the same though, so I'm assuming the folks behind We The Trees have now set-up a hosted catarse service and called it CrowdfundHQ

Can anyone confirm my assumption?

Cheers,

Josef.

PS on a similar note, I saw PeopleFund.it listed on this "sites using catarse" page on the wiki, but I'm pretty sure they don't use catarse.
https://github.com/danielweinmann/catarse/wiki/Sites-using-Catarse

[Lowfill Tarmak]

Hi,

I can not confirm but it seems like an extreme makeover over the admin
area of catarse.

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[Antônio Roberto Silva]

Hi,

I think that they create a new application :)

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[LuxNova]

You'd have to ask Nathan, but to me it looks like We The Trees is using the Crowdstarter app template on the surface. Although all bootstrap templates have the same look/feel.

CrowdfundHQ may be a white label of the opensource Crowdstarter. It's pretty easy to get started with that app, but Crowdstarter looks like a single project, single site project on the main fork. Very basic, like ignition deck. Maybe thats why the price point is so low. Others may have peeled off deeper functionality in new forks in the last few weeks since it was posted to Github.

[jerry]

Hey everyone,

I'm the front-end and designer for wethetrees.com and crowdfundhq.com.  We developed crowdfundhq from scratch using sinatra, haml, CSS, and javascript to be a super clean implementation of a crowdfunding site with a focus on lots of admin functionality so that anyone can easily create and maintain their own crowdfunding site.  It uses paypal and wepay for payments.  We host it and you can use a subdomain of crowdfundhq or hook it up to your own domain.  I don't want this to be a sales pitch for CrowdfundHQ though, so you can send me an email if you want to know more about it.

We just launched it last week and are still cleaning up bugs and adding admin features.  I didn't post to remove wethetrees.com from the list of sites using catarse yet, as we switched so recently that I wanted to make sure we weren't going to switch back to catarse if we discovered too many bugs.  But things look pretty good, so I guess you can take us off the list of sites using catarse.

It's fun to see the lively activity on the Catarse board!

Cheers,

Jerry

[LuxNova]

Nice. Congrats Jerry.

[Mike Pence]

Nice work, Jerry!

[jerry]

Thanks all!

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:02:00 AM UTC-6, Josef Davies-Coates wrote:

[Diogo Biazus]

Nice work Jerry, congrats!
BTW, if you ever want to integrate both projects (catarse is needing a decent admin engine) just drop a line :D

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[Josef Davies-Coates]

Hi Jerry, thanks for the info, I'd love to hear more!

What led your team to choose to write something else from scratch rather than continuing with catarse?

And are there any plans to open source the work you guys have done too?

Cheers,

Josef

[jerry]

Hi Josef,

A lot of had to do with the back-end dev.  He's super minimalist and, as a result, doesn't like how much Rails does for you that is unnecessary for what we need.  So, since we wanted to expand the admin section a lot, and our backend dev really didn't like working with Rails, he said that if he was going to do it, he wanted to write in something he liked using.

For example, in CrowdfundHQ there isn't even a javascript library, and I took the 6 000 line twitter bootstrap css and stripped it down and rewrote parts to what I would really use and ended up with about 225 lines.  We don't plan to go open source with it, unfortunately.

Best,

Jerry

[Josef Davies-Coates]

Makes sense, thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Josef.

[BVO]

Hi Jerry,

How does someone reach you?

Thanks
SG

[jerry]

Hi SG, 

You can reach me via the contact form at CrowdfundHQ: http://crowdfundhq.com/contact

Best,

Jerry