Name: Thank You Ledger
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 159 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

In a 3,000-person Discord, Jun answers newbie questions every night and nobody notices. Each quarter Thank You Ledger lets members nominate with short stories, a small jury reviews, and the pot pays Jun with a public thank-you he keeps forever.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$159

$40 deposit to reserve

Nomination form, jury review, quarterly payout from pot, permanent thank-you attestations, hall of helpers page.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: round cadence
You choose: jury size

Customfrom $1,100

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

Why own your own

Nomination-based retro funding is live; this is a smaller-community packaging of it.

Closest things out there

Unlock Protocol runs a monthly community-nominated retro funding pot, and Celo EasyRetroPGF and Optimism RetroPGF use nominations plus a shared pot.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Mines invisible care work into recognised reputation.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Optimism Collective · rolling

Optimism Retro Funding

rounds/seasons; current round unknown

Official page ↗

Needs deployed impact to qualify retroactively

Their rule on existing code: Retroactive: existing deployed projects with measurable impact required

grant · Gitcoin · upcoming

Gitcoin Grants rounds

quarterly-ish rounds; next round dates unknown

Official page ↗

Public goods tooling if open source

Their rule on existing code: Existing open-source projects OK (generally required)

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Thank You Ledger app: community members nominate quiet helpers with stories, a small jury picked by lot decides, and a capped pot pays them with a thank-you attestation they keep.

Base price · $159

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: stories not likes, a small jury decides, a thank-you they keep.

Round status and next actionHome

Round, pot, cap and one clear next step from nominate to sealed.

Friday thanks and streaksHome

A weekly two line prompt, one tap thank-yous and a streak. Gated behind Server.

Tip the potHome

Members add USDC to the round escrow through the shared checkout.

Story nominations with tagsNominate

Pick a helper, write a short story, tag the work, choose whether the jury sees your name.

Receipts on nominationsNominate

Answered threads and wiki edits attached by the receipts bot. Gated behind Server.

Jury desk with majority votingJury

Fund, hold or flag each nominee; jurors by lot; a majority funds; live split with cap and rollover.

Vote ring checkJury

Cluster flags for new accounts with matching text, with evidence for the jury. Gated behind Server.

Seal the roundJury

Escrow payouts and thank-you attestations in one step, plus a share card.

Hall of helpersHall

Funded helpers, private helpers hidden, past rounds and a funded-per-round chart.

Onchain receiptsReceipts

Round charter, story hashes, tips and payout receipts, each marked onchain or offchain.

Plans, profile and settingsMe

Server plans from the owner paywall, Friday DM prompt, hide my thank-yous, permissions and vision.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, round fees, payouts, incoming USDC, live tier names, prices, gates and payment methods.

Round rulesRules

Cadence, pot, jury size, account age, cap, round fee, network, cluster flags, receipts bot, Friday prompt, gas and hiding.

Agent log and roadmapAgent

What the round helper did and how it adapted, plus the priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loops and cohortsGrowth

Sister server invites, server to server referrals, hall pages and cohort retention.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Members never pay to nominate, vote or keep a thank-you. Servers pay a monthly plan for the round tools, sponsors pay to run many servers, and the owner can take a small optional fee on each pot.

CommunityFreeOne round a quarter, jury of 3, up to 500 members, thank-you attestations

Server$19 a monthMonthly rounds, juries up to 7, receipts bot, vote ring checks, Friday thanks

Ecosystem$99 a monthSeveral communities under one sponsor, shared reporting, custom split rules

Optional round fee of 0 to 3% of each pot, shown on every payout receipt. Gas is a few cents per round and can be sponsored by the server.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Hall of helpers pages published after every sealed round
Thanked helpers move to other servers and bring the habit
Sister server invite with a one click round template
Server to server referral codes worth a free month for both
Thank-you share card and weekly Friday thanks

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full member app

Nominations with stories and tags
Jury by lot with majority voting
Capped split and escrow payouts
Thank-you attestations and hall of helpers
Friday thanks, tips and receipts

Included

Many servers, one sponsor

Ecosystem sponsor dashboard
Receipts from GitHub and forums
Slack and Telegram bots
Custom split rules per server

Add-on from $450

Portable record of care work

Helper profile across communities
Thank-you search for hiring and grants
Open schema for thank-you attestations
Matching pots from protocol grants

Add-on from $950

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Story based retro funding for the quiet helpers who hold online communities together.

Problem: Communities run on people who answer at night, fix the docs and welcome newcomers. Sponsor money and recognition go to the loudest members, and the quiet helpers burn out unseen.

Solution: Members nominate with short stories, a receipts bot shows quiet work, a jury picked by lot votes, and a capped escrow pot pays helpers with an attestation they keep. A cluster check flags vote rings; people always decide.

Why now: Cheap attestations on Optimism and Base, embedded wallets from a Discord login, and small models that can summarise stories and spot rings make this practical for a 3,000 person server.

Market: Discord and Telegram communities, open source projects, DAOs and the ecosystems and sponsors who fund them.

The ask: Pilot servers for real rounds, and public goods grants such as Optimism Retro Funding and Gitcoin.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Jun, who answers newbie questions at 1 AM in Patchbay, and see the round and pot.
Nominate: Kwabena writes a story for Jun and sees receipts for Marisol's quiet wiki work.
Jury: fund Jun and Marisol, run the cluster check and flag the ring of new accounts.
Jury: seal the round, then open the Hall to see Jun's thank-you and share card.
Receipts: what went onchain and what stayed with people.
Owner Rules: turn cluster flags off and watch the ring get funded on the jury desk.
Owner Revenue: change the Server price in the paywall editor and preview the Plans sheet.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: invite a sister server, then request the v2 sponsor dashboard.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,100: your own receipt sources, split rules, juror eligibility, platform bots or a branded ecosystem deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,100

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Online communities run on a few people who answer questions at night, fix the docs and welcome newcomers. Sponsor money and recognition usually go to the loudest members. The quiet helpers burn out or leave without anyone noticing.

What exists and what is new

Nomination based retro funding is already live. Unlock Protocol runs a monthly community nominated retro funding pot, and Celo EasyRetroPGF and Optimism RetroPGF use nominations plus a shared pot. Research verdict: exists, low novelty. This version packages the idea for small communities such as a 3,000 person Discord: story based nominations, a small jury picked by lot, receipts pulled from the community's own tools so quiet work shows up, a vote ring check, a cap per person, and a thank-you attestation the helper keeps.

The data it runs on

Round rules, nominations (story text, nominator, nominee), receipts from community tools (answered threads, wiki edits), jury votes, payouts and thank-you attestations. Story text and jury discussion are stored by the app; their hashes, the votes summary and payouts go onchain.

1.The mission

Make sure the people who quietly hold a community together are seen, thanked and supported, in a way they keep.

2.Why people can't resist it

Stories, not likes A nomination is a short story of what someone did and what changed. Reading them is the best part of the round.

A thank-you you keep Every funded helper gets a sealed attestation that names the round and links the stories, even if the server closes.

Friday thanks A two line prompt each Friday: who helped you this week? One tap sends a small thank-you and keeps a streak.

3.How it works for real

Identity: Discord login linked to a Privy embedded wallet on Optimism (default), Base or Arbitrum. Server age and roles gate who can nominate and who can sit on the jury.

Pot: A round escrow contract holds USDC from sponsors and member tips, with a per person cap and a fixed split rule agreed before the round opens.

Receipts: A bot reads public channels and the wiki history the community has opted in to, and attaches evidence to each nomination: threads answered, edits made, newcomers welcomed.

Round helper agent: A small model tier (for example Claude Haiku via OpenRouter) summarises stories and receipts for the jury and flags clusters of new accounts with matching text. It never decides, removes or pays.

Jury: 3 to 7 members picked by lot from eligible accounts. Votes are recorded, a majority is needed to fund, and jurors cannot fund themselves.

Thank-you attestations: EAS attestations on the chosen chain for each funded helper, with the round, amount and a hash of the stories.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per quarterly round for a 3,000 person server with about 60 nominations: summarising stories and receipts with a small model is a few hundred thousand tokens, roughly $0.50 to $2. Onchain, about 10 payouts plus 10 attestations on an OP Stack chain typically cost a few cents in total. The bot's hosting is the main cost, around $5 to $20 a month. Example: four rounds a year comes to well under $100 a year in running costs beyond the pot itself.

Community Free

One round a quarter, jury of 3, up to 500 members, thank-you attestations included.

Server $19 a month

Monthly or quarterly rounds, juries up to 7, receipts from Discord and a wiki, vote ring checks and Friday thanks.

Ecosystem $99 a month

Several communities under one sponsor, shared reporting and custom split rules.

5.Growth loop

Every funded helper gets a shareable thank-you, and every round produces a hall of helpers page. Helpers move between communities and bring the habit with them; sponsors like seeing where their money went.

6.Risks and guardrails

Gaming and vote rings: Alt accounts can flood nominations. Account age gates, cluster flags with evidence and a human jury reduce this; flagged nominations stay visible, marked, so the decision is explainable.

Popularity bias: Counting nominations favours the loud. Weight by evidence and stories, cap each payout and show the jury quiet work explicitly.

Hurt feelings: Not being funded can sting. Hold to next round is a real option, and every nomination gets a thank-you message even without money.

Tax and payments: Payouts may be taxable income for recipients in some countries. Say so plainly, keep amounts modest, and let helpers decline or redirect funds.

Privacy: Only opted in channels are read, story text stays off chain, and helpers can hide their thank-yous from public pages.

7.Build order

Round contract with escrow, cap and payout on Optimism, with tests
Discord login, eligibility gates and the nomination form
Jury by lot, voting and the split view
Receipts bot for one Discord server and one wiki
Cluster flag for new accounts and copied text
Thank-you attestations and a hall of helpers page
Run one real round with a friendly community and adjust

8.Where this is going

Now
One server's quiet helpers get a real thank-you each quarter.
Next
Friday thanks between rounds, so care is noticed while it is happening.
Later
A helper's thank-yous across communities form a portable record of care work they can show anywhere.
The big picture
Invisible care work online is recognised and supported as normally as code or content.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Thank You Ledger

Thank You Ledger lets your community nominate the quiet helpers, a small jury reviews, and a shared pot pays them with a public thank-you they keep forever. Running it on someone else's tool means their rules and their branding; owning it means your community, your cadence, your jury and a hall of helpers that stays yours. It turns invisible care into recognised reputation.

What’s stopping you?

“Where does the money for the pot come from?”

Start small: a sponsor, a slice of your community treasury, or members chipping in. Even $200 a quarter split among three helpers says more than a thousand likes. Grow the pot only once people see it working.

“What if it turns into a popularity contest?”

Nominations need a short story of what the person actually did, and a small jury reviews them. Publish the jury's reasons. Rotate jurors each round so no clique holds it.

“I can't code.”

You set the cadence and jury size, share the nomination form and press payout. DEPLOYR ships it configured.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The pot contract and thank-you attestations are deployed from your wallet. Helpers keep their attestations even if you stop running rounds.

“Are there tax issues with paying helpers?”

Possibly for recipients, depending on where they live and how much they get. Keep amounts modest, describe payouts as community awards, and tell recipients to check local rules.

The million-dollar ladder

Thank You Ledger earns by hosting rounds for other communities, DAOs and companies, charging per round or per month, plus a small platform fee on pots. Your own community is the showcase. This is a target to aim at, not a promise.

$300

$5,000

$18,000

$85,000

First 10 communities

10 communities running a quarterly round

$30 per month

A known tool for Discords

100 communities

$50 per month

DAO and company plans

60 DAOs and companies running monthly rounds