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Crowdtilt co-founder here. Crowdhoster started right here on HN as an open source project, and this launch to the public is due to the feedback and support it's gotten all along the way from the HN community. Thank you for that! Happy to stick around and help answer any questions or hear further feedback!

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Shawn, Beep CTO here. CrowdtiltOpen is currently hosting our e-commerce site. I can't say enough good things about you fine folks! The service rocks, the team is fantastic. And we get to keep all the incoming link juice (because it points to our domain), and get a fully customized site, that looks exactly how we want it to.

If you want complete control, while leaving the hosting up to a team that rocks and knows how to do it (they handled AdBlock's campaign for example, tons of traffic) CrowdtiltOpen is the way to go.

Looks fantastic. Well done.

I'm not in the US, and got a little message saying "Join Our International Beta" but there's nothing in the FAQ to explain what it is, or why it appears I can't sign up. Can you explain for me?

Core contributor on CrowdtiltOpen here -- sorry for the lack of international info, we'll update the FAQs! Shoot me an email (lebel at crowdtilt dot com) and I'll happily get you set up with the international beta.

why is crowdtilt powered by perl dancer and crowdtilitopen by ruby on rails?

CrowdtiltOpen (formerly Crowdhoster) started out as a side project built on top of the Crowdtilt API.

We chose Ruby because we wanted the project to be as accessible as possible. There are low barriers to entry to customizing the app and it's allowed for some pretty awesome contributions from the open source community. https://github.com/Crowdtilt/CrowdtiltOpen

thx for your answer

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