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Projects that can rally a launch moment, narrative, or community campaign. Useful for bursts of momentum, but harder to sustain continuously.
Live listings
8 live listings
Live listings are platforms currently available to open source projects.
Commons Stack
Commons-based microeconomies to sustain public goods through a library of open-source decentralized components.
Community Bridge
Community Bridge, now part of LFX Crowdfunding, lets open source projects raise donations and reimburse contributors through a Linux Foundation-managed platform.
Dev Protocol
Dev Protocol is a decentralized protocol for funding creators and communities through token-based support and incentive mechanisms.
FairOSS
FairOSS is a public benefit corporation with a mission to sustain the production and maintenance of freely shareable intellectual property.
Goteo
Goteo is an open source civic crowdfunding platform for projects that aim to create social, commons-based, or public-interest value.
Indiegogo
Indiegogo is a mainstream crowdfunding platform for campaigns, pre-orders, and post-campaign sales through InDemand.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter helps creators raise all-or-nothing campaign funding for products, creative work, and other launch-style projects.
Permissionless Software Foundation
The Permissionless Software Foundation is a BCH-focused open source organization that funds software through tokens, services, and community governance.
Emerging platforms
3 emerging listings
Emerging platforms are in development or not broadly available yet.
Pledgecamp
Pledgecamp is a blockchain-oriented crowdfunding project built around escrow, backer insurance, and smart-contract infrastructure.
Repo.trade
Repo.trade is an early-stage platform that tokenizes GitHub repositories and routes auction and trading proceeds back to repository owners.
Snowdrift
A nonprofit cooperative for funding public goods – things like software, music, journalism, and research.
Historical records: 5 discontinued listings
Historical records are kept for research and comparison, not as active recommendations.
Fundition
Fundition was a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform built around Steem and Tron with a no-fee pitch for founders and backers.
Hit Chain
HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.
IT Sphere
IT Sphere was a blockchain-oriented platform that pitched itself as a meeting point for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and technical experts.
Katalyse
Katalyse was a token-sale and fundraising platform for crypto projects that wanted ICO launch, listing, and investor-onboarding support.
Utopian
A provider of free crowdsourcing services to open source projects by incentivizing contribution.