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I'd feel more comfortable pressing the "Back This Project" if the button said "Powered by Crowdtilt" underneath it.

The whole "looks like a kickstarter but isn't on kickstarter.com" thing scared me off.

More people are starting to handle their own crowdfunding. Lockitron got rejected by Kickstarter so they created an open-source app for it: http://selfstarter.us

Definitely. Many of the largest crowdfunding campaigns of the past year have been self-powered (see Soylent, Tile, Lockitron, Coin, Star Citizen).

Might be helpful to check out Lockitron co-founder Paul Gerhardt's views on self-hosted campaigns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261442

This campaign for Lammily is powered by our open source tool CrowdtiltOpen (formerly Crowdhoster). We've taken Selfstarter's awesome groundwork and turned it into an end-to-end solution.

That's a great piece of feedback. With CrowdtiltOpen (http://open.crowdtilt.com) we're trying to provide powerful, fully white-label crowdfunding - but it could be in creators' best interest to move up our logo by default to inspire more confidence.

Thanks so much, passing this along to the rest of the team.

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