What I take from this is never make your crowdfunding platform your landing page. It’s not your online identity, maintain that elsewhere, somewhere you control. They process subscriptions for you.

Also, stolen from some advice about choosing databases – try to figure out how they think about crowdfunding, because the trade-offs they make are going to affect you.

Patreon wants to support full-time artist success stories (not hobbyists) who are paid on a monthly schedule, and are willing to put a lot of energy into price differentiating their patrons with very expensive reward tiers. It’s not a recurring microtransaction platform – at least, that’s not how they see themselves.