CleverCrow
Shares rank 3 of 5 crowdfunding platforms by recommenders
Lets backers fund open source projects with tokens, targeting specific issues. Critics doubt its value add and call the 20% fee a lot.
Lets backers fund open source projects with tokens, targeting specific issues. Critics doubt its value add and call the 20% fee a lot.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 42%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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Other crowdfunding platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other crowdfunding platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kickstarter | 12 | 8 | 60% | 8 | — | — |
| Open Collective | 8 | 2 | 80% | 5 | — | — |
| CleverCrowThis page | 5 | 7 | 42% | 1 | — | — |
| Crowd Supply | 5 | 3 | 63% | 5 | — | — |
| Pieces | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Through a bit of engineering work and better anomaly management, I’ve been able to get the platform fee down to 5%!”
“Letting backers target specific issues is a great feature.”
“Just finance the project for god sake”
“Keeping the maintainers in the driver's seat for issue prioritization is definitely the right approach.”
“I think it has good potential.”
“We can pay you in exposure”
“This is just convoluted, weird and vaguely dystopian.”
“immediately deskill such that their value-add or passion for the craft evaporates in the next 3 months”
“20% is a lot in my opinion!”
“you've fulfilled one of ThePrimeagen's predictions”
“your solution doesn't materially improve there, so what is the value add?”
“Whatever the run didn't spend goes straight back to your backers' wallets.”
“It seems to me like this removes agency from the FOSS maintainer and gives donators more control over their donation”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.