Crowdfunding, explained simply. Turn your idea into money.
Tell people what you'll make. They back it from $10. Reach your goal and the money goes to you.
How many people would it take?
79 people
That leaves you $3,029.39 after our fees.
About 3 people a day for a month.
Worked out with our fee on each pledge, 1.5% plus a flat $0.99, and $5 to open the campaign.
How it works
Three steps. No bank, no loan.
- Create your campaignSay what you'll make, how much you need and by when.
- Share your linkFamily, friends and their friends back it.
- Reach your goalThe money goes to you. Miss it, and you owe nobody anything.
Where the money waits
- Your pledge
- Held in escrow
- Goal metTo the creator
- Goal missedBack to you
No idea yet? You can still earn.
Share projects you like and invite friends. It pays only when people back something.
- up to 18.5%of pledges your share link brings
- 0.75%of what friends you invite back
- $50for finishing the onboarding
- $10per beta report we accept
Questions
Many people each give a little to make something happen. Here, they back your project, and once you reach your goal you deliver the reward you promised them. If the goal isn't reached, everyone takes their pledge back.
No. You sign in with your email or Google, and every amount shows in your own currency.
Opening a campaign costs $5. Each pledge carries our fee: 1.5% plus a flat $0.99. Looking around is free.
See pricingYour backers take their pledges back, and you owe nobody anything.
Your pledge sits in an escrow account the program controls, not in a CoFunders account. Under the program's rules, only the creator can claim a campaign's funds once it reaches its goal, and only you can take your pledge back if it misses. The program can still be upgraded, and today one key we hold can upgrade it (see /security).
How money is heldYes. Every backer gets the reward you promised them, like the thing you're making. Backing isn't a donation, so you deliver what you promised.
Explain it like I'm 5
Marta, Lia and 80 portraits.
This is Marta. Her daughter Lia is 3, and a year of kindergarten costs $3,000.
Marta draws. Her friends keep asking her for portraits of their families.
So she opens a campaign: “Your family, drawn by hand”. One portrait for $40. Her goal: $3,000 in 30 days.
She sends the link to her WhatsApp groups. Her friends share it with theirs.
- Day 320 backers
- Day 1245 backers
- Day 2680 backers
Goal reached!
The whole time, the money waited safely. With the goal met, Marta claims it: $3,067.80 after all our fees.
She draws 80 portraits and sends one to every backer.
In September, Lia starts kindergarten. Paid for by 80 families who now have a portrait on the wall.
And if Marta had missed her goal? Every backer would have taken their pledge back, and she'd owe nobody anything.
Marta is an example, not a real customer. Her numbers use our real fees: 1.5% plus $0.99 on each pledge, and $5 to open the campaign.
Your turn.
What would you make? And who would back it?