Fundraisers struggle to reach supporters beyond their own networks
People promoting urgent, political, creator, and niche crowdfunding campaigns often depend on their existing followers or ad hoc posts to find supporters. They want campaigns to reach relevant communities, but ordinary link posts can be mistaken for promotion, and advertising is described as difficult. The signals show a distribution problem, but do not establish that a new tool would reliably generate donations.
For fundraisers and campaign supporters. Mentioned from Jun 2024 to May 2025 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 2.0/10
- Pain
- 5.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
Quoted word for word. Follow a link to read the whole discussion.
These families' lives are on the line; sadly I don't have enough other followers who could offer them support
I wish there was a way for HNers to share Kickstarter campaigns that they are excited about. This is one I never heard about, but may have considered for my car/Hot Wheel enthusiast son
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 2 product ideas with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 3 places to find your first customers
- 2 more quotes from people who have this problem
- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks