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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 13d

What a fantastic ending to our Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who believes in this project as much as I do!

And a special thank you to our marketing team, @xanaroker.bsky.social and @kitsnow.bsky.social, for the work and wisdom that made our grassroots campaign such a success!

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 13d

🎉 THANK YOU! 🎉 Our Kickstarter is complete, and we've raised an incredible 150% of our goal!! Late pledges are open if you still want to support us or get early artist access.

We couldn't be more grateful as we prepare for the launch of our beta site later this year. Stay tuned for updates!

Drawing of a happy armadillo and the words "thank you!"

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Drawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you. You did it. With your support the Armadillo Kickstarter is fully funded and then some. This is a solid foundation on which the selfless, volunteer team at @armadillostock.bsky.social can build out a new idea in illustration licensing. Look for more announcements on what comes next. 🙏

Drawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 14d

Just 18 hours to go to get in on the ground floor of the licensing platform built by illustrators for illustrators (*whispers* and clients). Support a free-to-use platform for artists to share licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 13d

🎉 THANK YOU! 🎉 Our Kickstarter is complete, and we've raised an incredible 150% of our goal!! Late pledges are open if you still want to support us or get early artist access.

We couldn't be more grateful as we prepare for the launch of our beta site later this year. Stay tuned for updates!

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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 14d

I just backed @armadillostock.bsky.social : Licensing for Human Illustrators on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators

We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.

www.kickstarter.com

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 14d

16 hours left in the Kickstarter!

Meet @emblalunae.bsky.social, another member of our wonderful UI/UX team 👋

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 14d

18 hours left in the Kickstarter!

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 21d

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators.

What is licensing? Glad you asked!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 14d

Only 24 hours to go!!!

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Armadillo Kickstarter is LIVE!

Help us launch a community-built, free-to-use platform for licensing human-made art directly from illustrators!

Find out more: kickstarter.com/projects/dialmformichele/armadillo-stock

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 15d

100 backers and 41 hours remaining! Let's gooo!

Drawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 15d

Yay! We hit 100 backers for the @armadillostock.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign…not to be greedy but we only have 42 hours to get to 200 backers. Thank you!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 15d

Hell yeah!

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Drawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 15d

Less than 48 hours to go. Thanks so much to everyone who has backed, posted about, shared or clicked on the Kickstarter link, mentioned it to friends, followed the @armadillostock.bsky.social socials, and just thought about what a game-changing endeavor this can be. THX! Now who will be backer 100?

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 15d

With less than 48 hours left in our Kickstarter, we'd like to take you on a quick tour of our wireframe!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 15d

With less than 48 hours left in our Kickstarter, we'd like to take you on a quick tour of our wireframe!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 16d

Only 3 days left in the Kickstarter, and we'd like to introduce you to more of the team! Meet Thom (thomhines.com), a great designer and real sweetheart who joined our UI/UX team a few months back. Thanks for sitting down and talking about the project with us! 👋

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 16d

Only 3 days left in the Kickstarter, and we'd like to introduce you to more of the team! Meet Thom (thomhines.com), a great designer and real sweetheart who joined our UI/UX team a few months back. Thanks for sitting down and talking about the project with us! 👋

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 20d

👋 Meet the team

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 20d

👋 Meet the team

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 20d

👋 Meet the team

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 20d

With 6 days left in the Kickstarter, we want to introduce you to some of our team members! Meet @cassidy.social, the newest developer to join the Armadillo Army. With an eye for design and a full-stack set of skills, we're lucky to have her! 👋

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🎃Eski🎃 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna boost this again to let other independent artists know about this upcoming platform! This is probably one of the most promising licensing websites I've seen, especially because they go all in on protecting artists from AI and not nickel-and-diming us in fees. Please consider supporting them!

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 21d

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators.

What is licensing? Glad you asked!

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 21d

Definitely keeping an eye on this! I have a huge catalogue of old illustrations that I'd love to license out but not sure how to go about offering them. Having a place to source licensing for those who want to avoid genai would be amazing

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 21d

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators.

What is licensing? Glad you asked!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 21d

We've reached our Kickstarter goal with a week remaining! Thank you for supporting our mission to build a licensing website for illustrators.

What is licensing? Glad you asked!

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Michele Rosenthal @michelerosenthal.com · 23d

I'm so proud of the entire Armadillo team, so grateful for the community support, and so ready to build the best licensing website we can build!

Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 23d

🎉 We did it! The Armadillo Kickstarter is funded! 🎉

To celebrate, we can finally reveal our mascot's name, as chosen by you. Meet Arlo Strawberry Armadillo, or Arlo for short.

This was a true grassroots campaign, and we can't thank you enough. You still have 9 days left if you want to support us!

We're 100% funded! A happy armadillo says, "Thank you!" in a speech bubble. A name tag reads, Hello, my name is Arlo

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 23d

🎉 We did it! The Armadillo Kickstarter is funded! 🎉

To celebrate, we can finally reveal our mascot's name, as chosen by you. Meet Arlo Strawberry Armadillo, or Arlo for short.

This was a true grassroots campaign, and we can't thank you enough. You still have 9 days left if you want to support us!

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · 23d

We're so close to our goal!! Help us cross the finish line so we can build an alternative licensing website for illustrators!

Our Kickstarter is 99% funded! $5,940 pledged on $6,000 goal. 76 backers. 9 days to go.

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Drawmark @drawmark.bsky.social · 25d

The @armadillostock.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign is getting real close to its funding goal. Even a tiny amount helps get this licensing platform by illustrators, for illustrators, off the ground. Let’s blow by the 🤑 goal and do something positive for a change! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators

We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.

www.kickstarter.com

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Naih Astelle 🍳 | VGen Artist @naihastelle.com · 26d

Proud to be a @kickstarter.com support of @armadillostock.bsky.social !

They’re so close to their goal! Support the new illustration licensing platform built by illustrators for illustrators! I’m so excited for this market to finally be filled

kck.st/45Dqcsl

✿┊【 #kickstarter #noai 】

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