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Help Mean Pies continue to serve up honest pie reviews to New Zealand!

$840 donated
Given by 19 generous donors in 7 weeks

Help Mean Pies to keep serving up the honest pie reviews for New Zealand!

Nationwide

Mean Pies Is Already a Hit - Help Us Level Up!

Kiwis have spoken: 16,000+ downloads and 2,700+ pie-obsessed accounts prove it - Mean Pies is New Zealand’s go-to app for honest pie reviews! But now, we need your help to fuel the next chapter.

Our community is growing faster than a good bacon and egg sells out at 8am. To keep up, we’re crowdfunding to upgrade our tech and supercharge the app. Your support will:

Buy a reliable laptop so we can squash bugs, add features, and keep improving the app full-time (no more coding from a 5-year-old brick that may not turn on one day!).

Boost server power to handle more users, faster searches, and real-time updates as pie lovers nationwide hunt for perfection.

Why donate?

You’ll keep the app alive - no more crashes during peak pie hours (yes, that’s a real thing).

Unlock new features like personalisation of profile pages, pie-driven road trips, reward points leading to free pies and much more!

Support local - keeping Mean Pies going hard is key to raising the bar for pies all across NZ!

Mean Pies is for all of New Zealand to use so I would love your help to make sure it is the best it can be!

The most pressing issue is an old laptop that may stop getting updates which means I can't update the app and constantly reaching server limits. I would love to have a smooth running machine for everyone to use!

Use of funds

A new Apple Laptop (this is so I can build the iPhone as well as Android apps).

Hosting of the Mean Pies backend on a much more powerful server.

Pay the bills for using the google APIs that serve up the pie shops.

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Latest update

Changed to an open goal  23 May 2025

This is now an open goal to see if we can get a laptop!

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Latest donations

Matt
Matt 6 days ago
$100
M & A
M & A on 20 May 2025
Well done on all your hard work. Amazing effort and app!
$200
Mean Pies

Wow thank you so much!!

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OnlyPies
OnlyPies on 18 May 2025
$20
Mean Pies

Thank you OnlyPies! Much appreciated!

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Gazzar
Gazzar on 17 May 2025
Meeaan bro
$20
Mean Pies

Thanks Gazzar! Legend

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Grenville
Grenville on 08 May 2025
Fantastic app!
$45
Mean Pies

Thanks Grenville appreciate the support!

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This campaign started on 22 Apr 2025 and ends on 22 Aug 2025.