Advice - is Catarse a good fit for my project?

[christina zou]

Hi friends,

First of all, thanks for open-sourcing this wonderful project. :)

I'm a machine learning engineer with very little web-dev experience. I would like to build a new crowdfunding platform, whose main feature is that every vendor will be running many little campaigns at once, which will all be displayed in his vendor page. My requirements:

1. I want to build a crowdfunding platform that can support ~1k vendors. 

2. Each vendor will have a store listing all of their active campaigns. Every vendor will be running many campaigns (up to 8) at the same time.

3. For every campaign page, I would like the following features: 

  1. Goal + Progress bar

  2. Description text and photo/video

  3. Reward tiers

  4. A wall listing recent contributions + messages from contributors

4. A very simple, sleek dashboard where vendors can manage their stores and create/manage all their campaigns

5. A simple search/browse functionality for the platform

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I have no idea what stack to use for this project, but I'd like to find the easiest solution because I don't have a web dev background.

Should I use Catarse? Would it be easy for me to add in my own features later (e.g. allowing visitors to contribute 'votes' as well as money to campaigns), and to customize the vendor dashboards to my liking?

Thanks! -Christina

[christina zou]

One last question - 

Is there an English translation of this website out there, or would I manually have to translate the site? 

No big deal, but I'm guessing many developers who used Catarse do not serve a Portuguese audience?

[Adriano Benin]

Hello Christina,

it should be fairly simple to adapt catarse to your needs, but it would definitely require an experienced web developer (even if just to deploy it with no modifications at all).

Unfortunately an english translation is not officially available, but there are some forks of the project which have been translated.