Vibestarter

Love what Ethos is building through Vibestarter, bringing VibeCoded apps to life through community driven fundraising while establishing trust between founders and backers, giving backers control over their money.

Vibestarter feels like a fresh take on how ideas get funded in web3. Instead of waiting for big backers it lets community support vibecoded apps in early stage. The vibetoken concept is interesting and makes participation more open. Built on Base gives it good speed and low cost which helps adoption. Still early but the direction looks promising and worth watching how it grows from here

Cyphr and Vibestarter were part of our vibeathon just a month or so ago. Vibestarter is a very cool project and is trying to build up their credibility score. They've made leaving a review / vouching for them part of their incentive model, and that's up for you guys to decide if that's in violation of social constructs or not. For reference, incentivized reviews on products like Google reviews are against their ToS, but on Amazon just require a disclaimer (paid review, essentially) I'm evaluating how to handle this to be more clear and will work on a solution, but Vibestarter is definitely a good project by a legit, well known dev in the space that has reputation.

This project is inflating its Score by motivating Ethos users to leave EXCLUSIVELY positive reviews about them, as well as vouch for them by staking ETH. Even though this is a brand new project that has partnered with Ethos Network and gives priority to users with reputation, ETHICS MUST BE THE HIGHEST PRIORITY. I will be downvoting every incoming review on this project and I've already done so for the positive reviews that came in on this profile over the last 24 hours. I can't trust user reviews on this profile's page while this Score-boosting campaign is going on, and I see them as biased. Link to my post with a [screenshot](https://x.com/0xKharon/status/2031455415649841192). I told them about it, and here's the response I got: " This was a decision that was discussed directly with the Ethos team. We're not forcing anybody to do it. " Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/A5rug

We connected everything to the platform our wallet and Twitter. It looks like a testnet phase, but while doing the tasks I noticed there are Ethos tasks like leaving comments and vouching. If I had known that beforehand, I probably wouldn’t have joined. That’s just not how these things usually work. Good luck to everyone else. I didn’t want to leave a negative comment based on bias and confuse people, especially since it’s way too early to judge the project.

Obvious disclaimer: I made this. This project came about as a result of the Ethos Vibeathon, and is one of my first creations made almost entirely using vibecoding. What Vibestarter aims to do: bridge the funding gap that exists for new founders looking to get their idea off the ground. Vibecoding has enabled non-technical founders like myself to get ideas shipped and to a working MVP, something that was previously impossible. Now the biggest challenge that remains is that initial seed capital required to continue building & for basic business expenses such as marketing & early hires. Vibestarter looks to address that problem by offering community funding rounds for vibecoded apps, all while leveraging the benefits of smart contracts to add safety nets for backers and accountability for founders.

The UI/UX is clean, but the real 'North Star' for Vibestarter will be moving from incentivized reviews to Proof of Curation. I’d love to see a feature where 'Vibe-checkers' get slashed if they back a project that rugpulls. I’m rooting for this to become the definitive filter for early-stage alpha; keep pushing on the sybil-resistance.

Knowing Cyphr personally means I am biased but I have also tried it out and found the onboarding process to be seamless. I understand that many people are apprehensive when it comes to fundraising in crypto but Vibestarter's tranche and challenge system is innovative and a clear improvement to the chaos of ICO raises and blindly sending funds to a wallet that the majority of us have been scammed on. Moreover in response to criticism for the points task for leaving a review on Ethos, Cyphr adjusted the wording to make it clearer that fake positive reviews are not expected.

I logged into the platform and connected my social media accounts and wallet. It's currently in the testing phase. I'm completing tasks. It's too early to evaluate yet, but it's promising.

I recently discovered a project with exclusive access on Ethos. As I explored it, I started wondering how this platform could build its reputation and attract the attention of crypto enthusiasts by showing them how use it. It’s a community for vibe coders in the crypto space, designed to support and crowdfund projects. For my initial impression of the project, I actually think it resembles a Launchpad starter designed for vibe coders, offering an accessible and engaging platform that encourages creativity and experimentation within the coding community.