the marketing co-op for founders who ship
Other founders are your new growth channel.
Trade verified marketing actions with founders who get it — launch-day shares, deep feedback, directory listings, newsletter mentions, warm intros, podcast spots, featured articles. Do a founder a favor, earn points. Spend them, and the crowd shows up for yours. Free to join. Impossible to freeload.
start earning with no project · add yours when you're ready to spend · points are earned, never bought
Favors.dev
Marketing & Growth · live in the directory
live rally — open bounties right now
verified · clicks tracked
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Voiden API Client
Developer Tools · live in the directory
the rally a founder can post — real pricing
verified · clicks tracked
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PounceDomains
SaaS & Business · live in the directory
the rally a founder can post — real pricing
verified · clicks tracked
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VibeCodingList
Startup Tools · live in the directory
the rally a founder can post — real pricing
verified · clicks tracked
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Toolicly
AI & Machine Learning · live in the directory
the rally a founder can post — real pricing
verified · clicks tracked
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Fieldbase On-Site
SaaS & Business · live in the directory
the rally a founder can post — real pricing
verified · clicks tracked
view rally →the founder marketing grind
You didn't start a company to beg for testimonials
Every founder hits the same walls chasing early traction — alone, for free, on repeat. On Favors.dev each one becomes a favor you can earn, done by founders who get it and verified before any points move.
Begging for testimonials
Three follow-up DMs and a guilt-trip just for one usable quote.
Post a testimonial bounty — founders who actually used it write the quote.
Submitting to directories
Endless forms and screenshots, one tedious listing at a time.
Bounty it out — helpers list you and the link is auto-verified.
Shares need an audience
Launch-day reach assumes the followers you don't have yet.
Real founders repost from their own accounts — for points.
Beta testers who ghost
“Happy to test it!” … then silence, and no real feedback.
Structured-feedback bounties get AI-graded teardowns that land.
Backlinks by cold email
Hours of research and pitching for one link that may never come.
Featured-article bounties earn real, rank-tiered dofollow links.
Climbing the launch boards
Launch day flops without a crowd ready to back you at 12:01am.
Rally founders who show up — because showing up pays.
$100s for a feature
Blog and newsletter features cost cash you'd rather build with.
Trade favors instead of money — earn the mention or feature.
zero busywork
Add your project in seconds. The AI does the busywork.
No tedious forms or hunting down screenshots. Paste your URL and hit Autofill — our AI reads your live site and drafts your name, tagline, description, and category, and captures a screenshot for you. You're listed and trading favors in under a minute. Edit anything before you save.
- Reads your live site — no copy-pasting from your homepage
- Writes your listing — name, tagline, description, category
- Grabs a screenshot — captured automatically — no upload
- You stay in control — tweak anything before it goes live
new project
Website URL
Name
Tagline
Category
ProductivityScreenshot
the economy, by the numbers
What makes Favors.dev different
14
action types — 10-second favorites to podcast interviews
100%
of actions verified before points release
25%
rake burned on every trade — points stay scarce
0
points for free riders. The math forbids it
a new primitive for your GTM
Ads stop the day you stop paying. Content is a grind. Favors compound.
A rally is the founder crowd showing up for one launch at once — you post your bounties, and verified founders knock them out live.
Launch day used to mean begging your group chat. Now you put up the points, and a queue full of founders — people who know exactly how hard this is — picks up your request like a quest board. Every action verified, every click tracked back to your marketing report, every point accounted for on an append-only ledger.
- Launch rallies — shares, comments, and directory listings on the day it counts
- Feedback & QA rounds — structured teardowns and bug hunts, AI-graded so quality pays more
- Featured articles & newsletters — real editorial coverage — rank-tiered, verified live, re-checked weekly
- Warm intros & podcast spots — your ICP and their audience, one founder away
InboxPilot
Launch Day Rally
Maya shared your launch post with her audience
+100Tom sent a full product teardown — scored 87/100
+400Sara left an honest review on G2
+50Arjun featured you in his newsletter (DR 72)
+2,500Linnéa favorited your launch
+2every action verified before points move ⛨
vs product hunt & betalist
Launch platforms list you. Favors.dev shows up for you.
Keep your Product Hunt launch — that's exactly where the rally aims. The difference is what's standing behind you when you get there.
Favors.devnot a replacement — bring the Favors.dev crowd to your launch platform of choice
the loot table
Every action has a bounty.
Bigger effort, rarer drop. Requesters pay a 25% premium that gets burned — the sink that keeps every point you hold scarce.
Favorite a launch
~10 secOne tap on any launch page. Ranks the calendar.
common
Upvote
~1 minBack a launch on its platform.
common
Social comment
~2 minA real comment on a launch post.
common
Directory listing
~5 minSubmit the product to a launch directory. Auto-verified.
common
HotReview
~10 minHonest review on G2 or an app store.
uncommon
Community answer
~10 minRecommend it where someone's genuinely asking.
uncommon
Share / repost
~2 minAmplify from your own account, in your own words.
rare
Bug hunt / QA
~30 minBreak their flows before customers do.
rare
Structured feedback
~20 minDeep product teardown, AI-graded so quality pays more.
epic
Newsletter mention
~45 minA genuine mention in your own newsletter. Auto-verified.
epic
Testimonial
~25 minA quote worth putting on a landing page.
epic
HotVideo walkthrough
~45 minA UGC demo of the product in your own voice.
epic
Warm intro
~20 minConnect a founder with one perfect-fit customer.
legendary
Podcast interview
~1.5 hrHost the founder on your show, product in the notes.
legendary
Featured article
~1 hrA full article on a high-rank blog. The one that compounds.
legendary
run the numbers
See exactly what a favor costs you.
Points are earned, never bought — so before you spend them, here's the full picture. Pick a favor and see what it costs to request versus what you earn doing it for someone else.
1 · pick a favor
2 · how many helpers
to request, you spend
3,125pts
625 pts each — 500 to the helper + 625 burned
do this favor for someone else, you earn
+500pts each
Your 250 starter points cover a head start — earn the rest by helping. Points are never bought.
The loop that launches startups
Do favors for founders like you
Open the queue, clear a few cards: tear down an onboarding flow, share a launch, feature a product on your blog. Five minutes between deploys.
Earn points that mean something
Nothing mints until the work is verified — scraped, AI-graded, or approved. Fraud gets clawed back from the ledger. Always.
Spend them on your launch
Bundle launch-day shares, feedback rounds, testimonials, and featured articles into one request. The crowd shows up because showing up pays.
reputation is the real flex
Points get spent. Reputation is forever.
Every verified help also earns reputation that never decreases when you spend. It gates bigger bounties, ranks the leaderboard, and badges your public profile.
Member
day one
Contributor
500 rep
Veteran
2,500 rep
Founder's Circle
10,000 rep
now launching
Built on Favors.dev
Every member project gets a public page, a backlink, and a crowd behind its launch.
Anomaly AI
AI data analysis workspace for large datasets and spreadsheets
tby team
PounceDomains
Namecheap Marketplace domain sniper app powered by AI
Launching Jun 22
by Shaun Trennery
Voiden API Client
Extensible, Git-Native Client for all your API workflows
by Nikolas Dimitroulakis
VibeCodingList
Ask one clear question about your product. Get targeted feedback.
by Josef Andre
Toolicly
Access 145+ specialized AI tools for content, email, and marketing without the blank-page friction
Launched Jun 15
real talk
“Sounds great, but…” — answered straight.
“I don't have time for another community.”
Good — this isn't one. No feed to scroll, no chat to keep up with. It's a queue you clear: the median action takes ~2 minutes, and ten focused minutes covers a full day of earning.
“I have no audience. What's my help worth?”
Follower count isn't the unit here. Feedback, reviews, testimonials, and articles pay full points from anyone — and on the receiving end, thirty genuine founders beat one influencer every time.
“Points sound like a gimmick.”
They're closer to accounting. Append-only ledger, verification before any payout, automatic clawbacks for anything fake. The points just make reciprocity enforceable.
“What if I post a request and nobody helps?”
You can't lose points to silence. They're set aside when you publish, paid only for work you approve, and anything unused returns automatically at the deadline.
founding-member window is open
Stop launching into the void.
Join the co-op where helping other founders is literally how you market your own startup. The leaderboard is short, the badges are unclaimed, and founding reputation compounds the longest. Your first 250 points are on the house.
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