5 Austin Kickstarters you'll want to help fund right now

by Tessa McLean
June 25, 2015

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Peeple - Caller ID for your front door

614 backers, $87,029 pledged of $50,000 goal, 1 day left
 
That peep hole you have in your door? It's outdated. Your front door is a blind spot. You should be able to see when someone comes to your house, regardless of whether you're there or not. is a small camera that mounts on your existing peephole or sticks on the glass of your door. It has sensors and a battery and connects to your home wifi and then sends notifications to you when someone knocks or opens the door. You can be anywhere in the world and as long as you have a mobile phone with a signal, you will receive the notification.
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20 backers, $721 pledged of $10,000 goal, 28 days to go
 
If you already love Google Docs and you're into coding, Codr is everything you've ever wanted. It's a collaborative text editor, conceptually like Google Docs for code. Every edit and cursor move is instantly synced to all users. Codr aims to recapture the shared context that the office whiteboard provides in a way amenable to long-distance teams and optimized for software development. Coding made easy, don't you think?
 
 
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59 backers, $5,882, pledged of $10,000 goal, 9 days to go
 
Founder pits entrepreneurs against each other in a battle of commerce & capitalism. Seems like every day life for you, but now you can play a game with the same concept as well! Negotiate, trade & plan your way to victory! 
 
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786 backers, $67,166 pledged of $50,000 goal, 8 days to go
 
Trago is a patent-pending water bottle that accurately measures how much you drink. It connects to your smart phone, and other wearable devices, and allows you to set, and measure, intelligent hydration goals. Now there's no worrying about if you had enough water to drink — it's right there on your screen. 
 
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Build apps, APIs, websites, IoT sensors, drones and robotics in any language, library and framework in seconds. Sounds like taking your dream and making it a reality to me. Metaprogramming is code that writes code. Code Generation is code that generates code. Crystal combines both to provide developers at any skill level with the highest level and lowest level of development. Crystal is an open source command-line program written in Node.js - but you don't have to know Node in order to use it. It is language agnostic allowing you to generate code in any language. Now, get started on that app you've always wanted.
 
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