How It Works
Crowd Kode helps people + businesses connect and crowd-fund new ideas,
projects, technology & more.
How It Works
It’s quite simple. Anyone can post an Idea or Project free. And others can "buy-in" for as little as $0.10.Buying in simply means they want to co-fund and be a member of the project - and get a share of the profits if it’s successful.
Other Details
Other than that there are a bunch of little policies and details in our Terms, which we try to make super fair, obvious and easy.For example, if a project doesn’t look like it’s going to reach it’s funding goal, you can withdraw your buy-in(s).
And, all Members who agree to Crowd Kode’s terms also agree that there is an implied, relative "ownership" percentage based on the buy-in contribution amounts. - Meaning your total buy-in amount determines your share of profits and ownership (whether the group ever incorporates or not).
Crowd Kode Is Not Actually Crowd-Funding
We use the term crowd-funding for familiarity, but what we help Crowd Kode Users do is actually "co-funding" - meaning "funding" something together. It’s not an investment. We help build fractional partnership groups + collectives - who make, what is technically called member "contributions".That means one person doesn’t just get all the money when an Idea or Project is successfully funded. This prevents all those nightmare stories you hear on those popular crowdfunding networks where somebody does a campaign and then takes all the money and spends it on personal stuff.
Crowd Kode helps manage the process of what happens after a campaign is successfully funded - by making sure the funds are spent and put towards the originally understood and intended terms of the posted Idea or Project.
MORE BACKGROUND
It’s hard making any idea a reality, yet alone getting a new business off the ground - so why not do it with a massive group of people, minimize your risks while increasing your chances for success?Sure, you may have to give up some ownership and control of your idea, but you also give up the burden of trying to do it all yourself.
The harsh truth is - most people will sit on an idea and either never actually do anything with it - or see someone else do it first. We see it all the time. And, we call it: Idea Paralysis.
Even when people take that big leap and start actually building their idea, tons of interesting little psychological things start to happen - and skipping right to the most crucial thing we’ve noticed - people get “Launch Paralysis” right towards the end. They start to second-guess themselves, nit pick and what they’ve built and become their own devil’ve advocate.
What we’ve noticed in most successful businesses and startups that we’ve built or helped build through our parent company is the ones who tend to make it are the ones who start simple and aggressive, build interest while delivering some little amount of value or vision (or both) and then sort of evolve it quickly as they go.
Planning is good, but people, life and business are so unpredictable that we’ve noticed it’s the people with a basic structure of a plan that allows for fluidity and flexibility that are able to keep their focus and direction - even in the face of change, adversity, etc. and constantly adapt, tweak or pivot the idea or business to keep it progressing.
THE ORIGINAL CROWD KODE
Note: The original purpose of Crowd Kode was to be a place where we could share
useful code and tech with the world for free. And, we plan on resuming most,
if not all of these original features and services again one day.
Then, we updated it to help people and businesses crowd-fund custom development projects and hiring, which we actually did offline and organically for quite awhile successfully. And, while we were updating Crowd Kode to streamline that we decided to go a step further and just focus on people’s actual aspirations.
Then, we updated it to help people and businesses crowd-fund custom development projects and hiring, which we actually did offline and organically for quite awhile successfully. And, while we were updating Crowd Kode to streamline that we decided to go a step further and just focus on people’s actual aspirations.
Technology is often a key part of what separates most businesses from barely making it to continually growing or thriving. From IT to Custom Development, Tech Support and even QA Testing, it can be super expensive to create and manage technology - yet alone even manage basic memberships where you use off-the-shelf, cloud-based services.
But, the good news is - if so many top tech titans are so convinced that AI is going to take over the world, then it means people still have time to use some of those same underlying things that are so replicatable - to grow our businesses and tech ourselves.
So many people and businesses tend to have the same types of basic technology needs - like, having a good website with multiple, reliable payment options, maybe a mobile app, some ocassional IT support, bug fixes, etc.
And, much of Custom Development stems from the same types of coding languages, platforms, frameworks and features, making it possible to pool money together to cover a lot of technology needs in a crowd-funded type of way.
For now, we’d like to focus CrowdKode on 2 things:
1
CrowdKode helps you find and connect
with others who need some of those same exact technology and/or features, then
helps you safely combine money (or budgets) to essentially split the cost(s).
VOTE-UP ANY NEW TECH, PROJECT OR IDEA
Day to day, Members can suggest, recommend and vote on which tech we work on developing (and creating), as well as post their own specific needs and ideas. And, anything Members vote up enough times, we create or fund (to be created). Simple.CROWD-FUND ANY NEW TECH, PROJECT OR IDEA
And, for things that don’t get voted up enough, we make it easy for other Members to show their interest and even make no-comittal pledges of how much they’d chip in towards an idea, new technology or project.2
Once we reach enough paying
Members, then CrowdKode will also be able to help Members in 2 additional
areas that none of us are able to do alone (and we’ve already got
everything built and ready for that phase)...
1. We will be able to provide an affordable On-Demand Tech Workforce to truly help cover all our Members needs - as well as get into the really fun stuff.
Imagine not having to post a job, talk to developers (or designers) and just being able to post what you need and we come back to you with a best-price (and timeline), which if you agree your project will instantly start and be delivered when done (and on-time).
The CrowdKode Team will handle, take care of and do all the management, corresponding, testing, review, discussion, discovery (on the development + planning side), even setting up development environments (including FTP Accounts and SSH credentials) - everything.
2. We can develop our own technology - and do what they do.
COMMUNITY-POWERED
For now, we just want to focus on building the community as fast as possible - because we know a ton of people need these kinds of services.Development prices are mega expensive and soaring - and freelancer market can be really complex, difficult to navigate and flat out risky.
To leverage technology for real profit and cost-savings, like the big companies and brands do requires a lot of money - and we created CrowdKode to make it easy and affordable for regular people, one-person businesses and small businesses to combine their money - even by just all using CrowdKode+ to create, maintain, manage, sustain, and evolve technology into useful and valuable way that impact the ways you make money - and help you make more.