Vibestarter

About this raise

Problem AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor mean one person can now build a real app in days, not years. The problem is there's nowhere good to fund these apps. VCs won't write a small check for a three-week project, Kickstarter can't handle tokens, and most token platforms are built for speculation rather than for people actually shipping software. So the builders most likely to make the next wave of apps have no real way to raise, and the people who'd back them can only do it by trusting a stranger not to run off with the money. Today a founder can raise on Friday and disappear on Monday, and the backers eat the loss. Vibestarter ties the funding to the building: easy to launch, open to watch while it runs, and set up so the team only does well if it keeps shipping. Solution Vibestarter is crowdfunding for vibecoded apps: software built with AI coding tools, on Base. Think Kickstarter, but built so a team can't take the money and walk: · The money is released over time, not all at once. 10% when the raise closes, then 15% a month for six months. The team gets runway, and backers keep an exit if it goes quiet. · Backers can push back before every payout. Each release opens a 72-hour window where backers flag concerns (a "challenge"), resolved before any money moves. · The founder's tokens unlock slowly. Locked for six months, then released over the following year, so the team is rewarded for sticking around rather than launching and leaving. · The trading pool is locked forever. The liquidity that lets people buy and sell the token can never be pulled by the team, which closes off the most common rug. · Every token carries a receipt of how it was built. An onchain Origin Capsule records which AI tool and model built the app, so the provenance is verifiable rather than just a claim. · Three ways to run a raise (Fixed Goal, Open-Ended, or Pro-Rata), so it fits anything from a prototype to a growing app. Progress End-to-end on mainnet, with a closed incentivized testnet behind us: · Smart contracts independently audited by ZXVC LLC: VibesLaunchRouter, VibesEscrow, VibesRegistry, and supporting modules. 11 findings, all remediated, with an independent re-audit of the fixes in progress. Full report at app.vibestarter.xyz/audit. · Incentivized testnet ran through May 2026: 1,079 raises launched, 610 successfully funded, 1,200+ unique backers, 14,087 contribution transactions. · Origin Capsule coverage: 100% of tokens launched through the router carried verifiable AI provenance. · Production infrastructure: Next.js app, Foundry contract suite, indexer + keeper services, Sentry observability, Telegram founder bot, automated tranche execution. Token $VIBES is the native token of the Vibestarter platform. Allocation at TGE: 50% Backers, 15% Community Rewards (6-month cliff), 15% Liquidity (locked in a fee-claimer contract), 15% Treasury, 5% Founder (6+12 vesting), and 0% Stakers at TGE, since the 2.5% staker slice (paid in tokens from each raise) turns on once the operating entity is incorporated. When staking goes live, every raise on Vibestarter allocates 2.5% of its tokens to the $VIBES staker pool, so staking is how you earn a slice of new raises across the whole platform, not just this one. $VIBES carries an Origin Capsule like every Vibestarter-launched token. The 2.5% fee on tranche payouts is platform revenue that funds the operating entity. Sharing that revenue with $VIBES holders or using it for buybacks is a choice the protocol could make later, not an automated or day-one feature. $VIBES is not a governance token at TGE, and broader holder rights are a future decision rather than a launch promise. Use of funds Capital funds the next 12 months of building Vibestarter into the default funding rail for vibecoded apps: · Engineering (~40%): ongoing audits, contract maintenance, agent-native integrations, and scaling the app and indexer. · Founder onboarding and BD (~20%): outreach to AI tooling communities and partnerships with agent platforms. · Operations (~20%): Luxembourg entity setup, legal and compliance counsel, incident response, and infrastructure. · Liquidity bootstrapping (~10%): seeding pools for top raises after finalization. · Reserves (~10%): runway cushion across the six tranches. Funds release on the standard 10 / 15 / 15 / 15 / 15 / 15 / 15 schedule. Backers retain full challenge rights at every tranche, regardless of total raised.