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📈 Crowdfunding Dynamics: The Bandwagon Backer Model

Interactive 3D funding-progress bar with simulated backers where adjusting a bandwagon-effect strength slider shows pledge momentum accelerating once a funding threshold is crossed.

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A 3D funding tower fills with amber pledge liquid as simulated backer orbs fly in and land, while a growing crowd ring around the base tracks total participants — showing how visible progress itself can accelerate future pledges.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Once the funding tower's fill level crosses the bandwagon threshold, the arrival rate of new backers multiplies with visible progress instead of staying flat — a simple model of social-proof-driven pledge momentum.

🎮 How to Use

Set the bandwagon strength, base backer rate, and threshold percentage, then watch the tower fill and the crowd grow. Toggle the bandwagon effect off to compare against a purely linear campaign.

💡 Did You Know?

Real crowdfunding data often shows a U-shaped pledge curve: an early burst, a quiet middle, then a second surge near the deadline as the project looks close to fully funded.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D funding-progress bar with simulated backers where adjusting a bandwagon-effect strength slider shows pledge momentum accelerating once a funding threshold is crossed.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install