The cost of lies: A Mineserver story(jeremyreimer.com)
167 points by luu | 69 comments
Jeremy Reimer's blog post recounting the story of Mineserver, a crowdfunded Minecraft server product, and the consequences of lies behind it.
#crowdfunding on Hacker News
10 stories tagged crowdfunding, newest first.
Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further(spectrum.ieee.org)
323 points by Vinnl | 75 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article about Modos, whose cofounders follow their e-paper dev kit success with a crowdfunded e-paper monitor.
Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public(fablepool.com)
489 points by matthewbarras | 255 comments
FablePool is a site where people crowdfund an ambitious prompt and an AI agent builds it milestone by milestone, with credit spending tracked on a public ledger.
Let's Buy Spirit Air(letsbuyspiritair.com)
529 points by bjhess | 506 comments
Campaign site 'Spirit 2.0' collecting non-binding pledges to buy the collapsed Spirit Airlines and run it as a people-owned airline.
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
1042 points by chaseadam17 | 104 comments
Watsi's founder thanks Hacker News, reflecting on 13 years of the YC nonprofit funding 33,241 surgeries and on founder burnout.
Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product(simonberens.com)
775 points by sberens | 368 comments
A newsletter post by a software engineer recounting lessons from manufacturing and shipping the first 500 units of Brighter, a high-brightness lamp funded via crowdfunding.
Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment(bbc.com)
480 points by 1659447091 | 370 comments
BBC Eye investigation reporting that children with cancer were scammed out of millions of pounds raised through fundraising for their treatment.
Open Printer – Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink(notebookcheck.net)
511 points by mnmalst | 148 comments
Notebookcheck news article about Open Printer, an open source, repairable inkjet printer using DRM-free HP 63 cartridges and supporting roll paper, coming to crowdfunding.
Liberapay(en.liberapay.com)
327 points by nanna | 81 comments
Homepage of Liberapay, a recurrent donations platform for funding creators and projects.
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen(bunniestudios.com)
385 points by kungfudoi | 131 comments
Bunnie Huang's blog post announcing an updated, crowdfunded edition of The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen, now maintained by Naomi Wu.