I don't love the idea that someone might be so disinterested in their own crowdfunding campaign to have to launch it from a smartphone, rather than spending the time to do it from a proper computer.
Consider this: I see a pothole on my street, I hate it so I take a picture and tweet about how I wish it was gone. Enter crowdtilt, instead, I take a picture and create a campaign, it gets shared on facebook and twitter and suddenly a movement to fix the pothole has started. Worst case the campaign doesn't tilt and it's the equivalent of a tweet, best case we raise money to actually fix the damn thing, talk about putting your money where your mouth is!
While this behavior may not exist yet, I see a future where this app enables people to make much stronger statements about change they would like to see and gives them a dead simple way to contribute to those changes (plus all the fun spontaneous social stuff :).
This comment is totally on the mark. Campaigns like that pothole example are already popping up on Crowdtilt!
Check this (currently live) campaign out: a community in Oakland feels unsafe in their neighborhood and isn't being helped out by the local PD, so they're pooling funds together for private security: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/security-patrol-for-lowe...
This app is more geared towards casual/everyday use cases and lowers the barrier to make those things happen. This isn't necessarily for large scale crowdfunding projects.
I've got exactly the same first reaction. Trying to read something useful and/or noble into this effort though – I do have friends who don't own a "proper computer", and manage all their non-work internet on their phones. I do find it hard to make a jump from "I don't have a computer, but I've got an idea that other people might fund on something like Kickstarter" to "I know, I'll download an app and run my Kickstarter from my iPhone".
