This coincidentally is also the Final Assignment of the Coursera course by Stanford "Startup Engineering". Every one there would be making a Node based, AWS powered, Bootstrap themed Crowdfunding site.
As a non-js based programmer, This is some excellent insight in what a webapp looks like when built with node.js. I'm definitely gonna be reading through this to get my feet wet with node, as it's something I've been meaning to do but have been so occupied with other languages. Thanks for sharing!
Or you could fork selfstarter[1], which is what we used to allow users to reserve their username on <a href="http://microco.sm" rel="nofollow">http://microco.sm</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter</a>