Focused Tool · Apache 2.0 · Single Binary · Finance & Business

Self-hosted crowdfunding and pre-orders

Create a campaign, accept pre-orders via Stripe, track backers and goals. The Kickstarter alternative for product launches that you control entirely.

Install Grubstake Free Complete — all 150 tools $29/mo

Full REST API

Every operation in Grubstake is available through a JSON REST API. No SDK required — use curl, fetch, or any HTTP client.

What Grubstake replaces

Self-hosting used to mean spending a weekend configuring Docker, Postgres, Redis, and an Nginx reverse proxy. Grubstake skips all of that. It compiles to a static binary with an embedded database, so there is nothing to install and nothing to maintain.

How it works

Start Grubstake with a port and a data directory. It creates its SQLite database on first run and serves both the API and the dashboard on the same port. Create campaigns through the web interface or POST JSON to the API. Filter by description, goal amount, or search by keyword. Update records with PUT, delete with DELETE. The stats endpoint returns aggregate counts grouped by status for monitoring.

A regulated company runs Grubstake inside their air-gapped network. No data leaves the building. Compliance auditors can inspect the SQLite file directly. When the team needs a report, they query the API and format the output however the auditor expects.

Endpoints

Kickstarter at 5% fee.

Self-hosted crowdfunding and pre-orders. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your server.

Quickstart

Running in under a minute.

Download
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool grubstake
Run
PORT=8800 ./grubstake
Open
http://localhost:8800

Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.

Pricing

Free to start. Pro when you need it.

Free
$0
forever
  • 1 campaign
  • Single binary, embedded SQLite
  • Apache 2.0 — modify freely
Pro
$0.99
per month
  • Unlimited campaigns, custom domains, backer management, exports
  • License key, no cloud dependency
  • Email support

License key by email. One env var.

Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.

export GRUBSTAKE_LICENSE_KEY=stockyard_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
./grubstake

No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.

Part of the Stockyard family — 150 focused self-hosted tools · Complete bundle $29/mo · stockyard.dev