Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Flatmerge Kickstarter Project

Why Kickstarter?

Flatmerge was created as a simple API for users who want to share their data. Most data is stored in a format that works best with the software that it is created in. Each of these have varying differences like datatypes and storage formats, which makes it difficult to share the data across apps. Most apps support the OData protocol for data access, so this was an easy choice for the data protocol. 

It didn't take long for users to find interesting things to do with an API that makes it easy to share data. BI developers suggested an Excel app for sharing their data with others for collaboration. Soon they were happy with their new app!

Hundreds of users have downloaded the Excel app since then. Hundreds more users have also been using the Flatmerge.com web site (which is also just a web app that uses the API) to share their data.

Support The Flatmerge Project On Kickstarter

Now is your chance to make Flatmerge become what you want it to be!

There are many ways to back the project, starting at $1. At $10 you get 10Mb of storage space (the first 5Mb is free), and at $100 you get a lot more space and support. Support is not just "help", it is more like an interactive collaboration with you to add features and fix broken features that you are using. The rest of the pledges involve even more support/collaboration and customization.

The Future Of Flatmerge

The goal of this Kickstarter project is not to get funded, it is to guide the future of Flatmerge and grow it into what you want it to be. Tells us what that is! Back the project, we will work together.

No comments:

Post a Comment