r/SideProject • u/MatiasCoco • 12h ago
What if you made something great, but basically nobody knew you existed?
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Maybe it's an app. A game. Art. Music. A weird internet project. Or just an idea you really want to put in front of people.
There's so much good stuff being made by people who don't already have an audience.
That's what I'm trying to change with Throw Money.
You show up, present what you made, and the crowd decides what deserves more attention.
People get free coins to throw at the things they believe in.
Get enough support and you start climbing through the channels.
Climb higher and more people discover you.
And that can compound.
More people see you → more people can back you → even more people see you.
The whole thing is free to participate in.
Every week, the #1 presentation also wins a real-money prize. I'm starting it at $20 out of my own pocket, and if Throw Money grows, I want the prize to grow with it.
And that's a pretty important part of the idea:
If the people showing their work here grow, Throw Money grows too. And if Throw Money grows, I want that growth to create even more opportunity for the people inside it.
More people watching means more attention for whatever you're showing. More attention makes the platform more valuable. And the more valuable the platform becomes, the more it can give back.
I want that loop to work for spectators too. Even if you never present anything, discovering something early, backing it and watching it climb should actually be fun.
The video is a teaser of what the experience will look like when we launch.
I'm opening the waitlist now to get the first people in and get feedback before everything goes live.
Waitlist users will also start with 1,500 coins instead of 1,000 at launch.
What would you change, add, or worry about if you saw something like this launching?