microPledge, customized.
For almost a year now, microPledge has been helping fund various open source projects. But we’re now also branching into the business world.
The basic idea is tailor-made versions of microPledge that businesses can use for their own products or features.
This extends easily to non-software products such as books and movies. For example, if a book publisher wants to get a feel for how popular a book will be before having to publish it, he can post a “project” on his book-tailored microPledge.
Potential readers can pledge money towards books they like. If a book’s pledges reach a level the publisher’s happy with, he goes ahead and does his publishing magic, and everyone’s happy. (But if the target’s not reached, he knows there wasn’t enough interest, and nobody’s lost anything.)
Here’s how it works:
- The ideas stage: You propose a new product or feature.
- Get committed customers: Your customers pledge money to your product. This builds up in our trust account to pay you.
- How you plan: The amount pledged gives you a way to gauge demand for your product before it’s even designed.
- Getting it done: Pledgers get the finished product (or money-back security).
We already run a similar service targeted at open-source software — feel free to try that out at microPledge.com.
We’re offering businesses tailor-made microPledge sites, and we have various levels of customization in mind, priced according to your needs:
- Basic customization and hosting, where you get microPledge running on your own domain with your logo, integrated with your own website.
- A private site with a separate database and an authorization option so only users of your products can sign in.
- Totally customized look and feel (e.g., book publication site) with additional branding options.
Please have a look the PDF version of our brochure. Alternatively, we can send a glossy, printed version of this brochure to you or your manager on request.
For more information, please contact us.
11 April 2008 by Ben add a comment