Hackstarter, a Kickstarter clone, is a platform where start-ups can raise funding in order to continue pursuing their innovative ideas. In exchange for their contributions, investors receive a portion of company equity based on their contribution and the percentage of equity the company offers.
Hackstarter was built with Rails, Backbone, Postgresql, jQuery, Javascript, Bootstrap, HTML, and CSS.
- User creation
- Company creation
- Company updates
- Searching by categories
- Photo uploading to AWS S3
- Markdown textareas
- Polymorphic commenting
- Messaging
- Company Update Likes
- Facebook authentication
- Activity Feed
- Starred Companies
- Search bar
- Amazon Payments
- Unicorn server