Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Describe the problem (people want to act together but fear moving first), your mechanism (conditional commitment with a threshold) and one real campaign you ran. Keep it under 120 words.
Look at Gitcoin Grants rounds, Optimism grants and chain builder grant programs on Base and Polygon. Open source your contract repo first, since public goods rounds usually require it. Note each program's deadline and eligibility rule.
Grant reviewers trust users more than founders. Ask an organizer who used your tool for two sentences you can quote.
Hi Tomasz, I am applying for a public goods grant to keep the commitment tool free for small groups. Would you write two sentences about what happened when your campaign hit its threshold? I will quote you by first name only unless you say otherwise. Thank you.
Submit with your thesis, data, quote and repo link. Then post a short note in the program's forum thread to introduce the project.
Hi all, we just applied with Only If You Do, an open source assurance contract tool for non-financial group actions. 4 campaigns run, 3 crossed their threshold, 112 pledges. Happy to answer questions or share the contract for review.
Once you have dozens of organizers, accelerators in the Alliance or a16z CSX style are an option. Read their application questions now so you collect the right data. Funding is never guaranteed, so keep revenue as your main plan.
Leave an email and we nudge you at 24 and 72 hours with your next move. Optional.
Or to keep this voyage on your profile.
LIVE DEMOA project-in-a-box: contracts, site, docs and impact metrics shaped for grant applications.
LIVE DEMOShow funders exactly what their grant built, milestone by milestone, with proof attached.
LIVE DEMOLend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.