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thanks! but the saas business isn't this site. more of a personal project i've been tinkering with.

Slow and steady growth through organic search + WOM. Haven't tried ads yet. Growing at $100-150 additional per month.

Crowdfunding / pre-orders is definitely part of the expected business process for HW startups to launch these days.

As the first pre-order platform, Celery has powered successes like Pebble and Boosted Boards and helped them get to the next stage of their business.

The transformation over the past few years has been unreal and today is such an exciting time to be a HW startup. We personally can't wait to see what kinds of HW companies emerge next.

Selling swag via crowdfunding is cool, but I’m surprised not more people are doing equity crowdfunding (or at least it's not as well publicized).

Given how much PR is done around big fundraising events, you would think that tech news sites would be all over any potentially hot startup closing a decent round on AngelList or FundersClub.

The checkout can be added to any page that allows you insert your own HTML/JS.

They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller.

Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in addition to having to focus on sales & marketing and product development.