help us put an end to
@garrytan
’s reign of startup gatekeeping, where a handful of people decide which ideas deserve a shot.
every three months, more than 10,000 companies apply to
@ycombinator
. roughly 1% get in.
that model has produced incredible companies, but there is something fundamentally funny about thousands of builders asking permission from the same small committee before their idea gets access to capital.
⅄ Combinator flips that around.
post something you think should exist. let everyone vote on it. launch coins whose creator rewards continuously grow the treasury. then use that treasury to fund builders willing to make the highest-supported ideas real.
no interview with Garry required.
https://t.co/Zd52IKDwcm
a callout to everyone who got deferred from @ycombinator S26:
keep building.
put the thing you wanted to build on the ⅄ Combinator board, let people decide whether they want it too, and apply for the capital to actually ship it.
you do not need to wait for another batch to take your idea seriously.
there is another combinator in town.
https://t.co/Zd52IKE41U
while we have your attention, put the idea you keep wishing someone would build on the board.
there is a new combinator in town.
no application cycle, no waiting room, no pitch deck required. post the ask, let people vote, and if the treasury has the capital, someone can get funded to actually make it real.
https://t.co/Zd52IKDwcm
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The board is where ⅄ Combinator decides what gets funded.
anyone can post something they think should exist. builders can then apply directly to the requests they know how to solve.
from there, the treasury reads the board from the top down and pays grants publicly in SOL to the builders selected to ship them.
request → vote → apply → fund → build
Every year, more than 40,000 companies apply to @ycombinator
and roughly 99% of them are deferred.
that leaves an absurd number of people with things they want to build, and an even larger number of ideas that never get capital behind them.
Introducing https://t.co/Zd52IKE41U, a place where anyone can post something they think should exist, launch a coin whose creator rewards help fund it, and vote on which ideas deserve to get built.
every launch is minted on the pumpfun bonding curve, except its creator rewards are permanently directed to the ⅄ Combinator treasury.
as the coins trade, 0.3% of every buy and sell keeps adding to the amount available for grants.
launch a coin → creator rewards → fund ideas
the board decides what should get built. post the app you wish existed, the tool nobody has made properly, the stupid idea that might actually be useful, or the problem you are tired of solving manually.
if other people want it too, it rises.
builders can apply directly to those requests, and grants are paid publicly in SOL with no equity, no tokens, and nothing owed back.
fund ur ideas today.
https://t.co/Zd52IKE41U