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https://github.com/siddarth/selfstarter-stripe
Roll your own crowdfunding
https://github.com/siddarth/selfstarter-stripe
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Roll your own crowdfunding
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/siddarth/selfstarter-stripe
- Owner: siddarth
- Fork: true (apigy/selfstarter)
- Created: 2012-10-11T23:59:39.000Z (about 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2012-11-19T23:44:58.000Z (about 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-02T12:49:27.628Z (4 months ago)
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: selfstarter.us
- Size: 174 KB
- Stars: 15
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 14
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Selfstarter
## Note
This is a fork of the [Selfstarter project](https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter) from [Lockitron](https://lockitron.com). The original project uses Amazon Felxible Payments, while this implementation uses [Stripe](https://stripe.com) for payments. The README is adapted from the original repository.
## About
Selfstarter makes it easy to roll your own crowdfunding site. To get started, fork this repository and change around ```config/settings.yml``` to suit your needs.
[See it in action](http://selfstarter.us)
## Background
After a [rejection from Kickstarter](http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/07/the-story-of-lockitron-crowdfunding-without-kickstarter/), we decided to follow in the footsteps of [App.net](https://app.net/) and make our own crowdfunding site for [Lockitron](https://lockitron.com). We've been absolutely blown away by the response. As a first step in what will hopefully be a long history of giving back, we have decided to open source the crowdfunding platform that got us here. Please send questions, comments, or concerns to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])!
Selfstarter is a starting point. We made some specific choices with Selfstarter for Lockitron and we recommend you tailor it for your project:
* This implementation of Selfstarter uses Stripe for payments. You can use Amazon Payments (per the [original project](https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter) or [WePay](https://www.wepay.com/). We used Stripe's ```stripe-ruby``` [gem](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby).
* We collect a ```Customer``` object using the Stripe API - this lets us collect payment information without charging the customer until we are ready to ship.
* Selfstarter doesn't come with any authentication, administration, mailers or analytics tools. We recommend adding a basic set of these so that you can message backers and manage orders.
## Getting Started
*Note: This assumes you have Ruby 1.9.2 or later installed properly and have a basic working knowledge of how to use RubyGems*
First you'll need to fork and clone this repo
```bash
git clone https://github.com/siddarth/selfstarter-stripe.git
```
Let's get all our dependencies setup:
```bash
bundle install --without production
```
Now let's create the database:
```bash
rake db:migrate
```
Let's get it running:
```bash
rails s
```
### Customizing
While it is *just* a skeleton, we did make it a little quicker to change around things like your product name, the colors, pricing, etc.
To change around the product name, tweet text, and more, open this file:
```
config/settings.yml
```
To change around the colors and fonts, open this file:
```
app/assets/stylesheets/variables.css.scss
```
To dive into the code, open this file:
```
app/controllers/preorder_controller.rb
```
### Deploying to Production
We recommend using Heroku, and we even include a ```Procfile``` for you. All you need to do is run:
```bash
gem install heroku
heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate
```