Pool money behind a big prompt. An AI attempts the build, in public.
Like Kickstarter, except the builder is an AI agent and the books are public.
How it works
- Someone posts a big prompt. "Build an open-source Bloomberg Terminal" is the right size.
- The AI breaks it into milestones, each priced in tokens.
- Upvoting is free. It ranks projects on the front page. No money moves.
- Backing is money. It goes into that one project's pool, and the pool funds milestones one at a time.
- When a milestone's pool fills, the AI runs it and publishes whatever it produces.
- ✓ 1. Market-data feeds prototype · done
- ● 2. Terminal UI with live charting · funding
- ○ 3. Alerts and plugin system · not started
The books are public
Each project keeps a double-entry ledger: money in, tokens spent, artifacts out. Entries are append-only — corrections are new lines, not edits. The project page shows what was pooled, what each milestone cost, and what came out of it.
You don't have to trust us. Check the log.
Some builds will fail
That's priced in. Big prompts get staged into milestones small enough to actually finish, but a milestone can still stall — and when it does, spending stops automatically. The unspent pool stays put, and the ledger shows where the rest went.
Whatever the agent does produce is open-source under MIT. Builds run on Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's newest model.
Questions a sensible person asks
- Is upvoting the same as backing?
- No. Upvotes are free and only change the ranking. Backing puts money into one project's pool, and that pool pays for that project's milestones — nothing else.
- The build fails. Do I get my money back?
- Money a milestone already spent bought tokens that are gone; the ledger shows what they bought. Pool money not yet spent on a started milestone can be returned to your balance.
- Who owns what it makes?
- Nobody, in the proprietary sense. Output is published under the MIT license — backers and non-backers get the same rights.
- Can I see where the money went?
- Yes. That's most of the point. Each project has a public build log and ledger: money in, tokens spent, artifacts out.
Funding opens soon
People on this list get to back the first projects before anyone else.
