Season 1Mon 24 Aug — Mon 31 Aug

Indie founders race. Sponsors pay the prize.

Entering is free and always will be. Founders bring their people, their people vote, and the founder who brings the most new faces takes the whole pot on Monday.

Season 1 prize pot

$250

$250 guaranteed this season — seeded. Every sponsor bid puts half of itself in here, live, while you watch. Winner takes all.

Seeded: $250
From sponsors: $0
Rolled over: $0

How a point is scored

3 pointsfor someone who has never voted here before, in any season.

1 pointfor someone who has voted here before. They still count. They count less.

One voteper person per season, verified through GitHub or X. Accounts under 6 months old cannot vote.

A season that does not reach its floor pays nobody. The entire pot rolls into the next Monday, so a quiet week makes the next one bigger rather than smaller. The floor for this season is $250. Every rule, in full.

The standings

0 votes · 0 of them new faces

Nobody has entered yet.

The race is free to enter and always will be. The first founder in gets an empty board and a head start on the tie-break.

Building something? Enter. It costs nothing, and it never will.

Founders do not pay to enter, cannot pay for points, and are not the people whose money is in the pot. That is not a launch offer. It is the rule the prize depends on.

How to enter