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Sponsor a prize pool

Two ways to fund prizes on First Commit: add to an existing pool, or create your own competition with your organisation's name and logo.

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Prizes bring entries. Entries bring work that people can use. If you make a tool for builders, or you want a specific thing built, you can fund a prize.

Option 1: add to an existing pool#

Every competition page has an Add to the prize pool button.

  1. Open the competition.
  2. Select Add to the prize pool.
  3. Enter the amount, and an optional message.
  4. Pay from your balance, by card or by crypto.
  5. Check the summary: the commission and the amount that goes to the pool.

For twins with a shared pool, your contribution is split the same way as the pool. Contributions are final. If a competition is cancelled, or neither twin gets a valid entry, contributions go back to the contributors' balances.

Option 2: create your own competition#

Anyone with an account and a linked wallet can create a competition at /create.

  1. Access mode. Open, obfuscated, or both (twins). Read Open or obfuscated.
  2. The brief. One real thing a business would use. Say why it matters.
  3. Requirements. Each one testable. Mark each one mandatory or optional.
  4. Criteria. Each with a weight. The weights add to 100.
  5. Dates. We suggest 2 weeks of submissions and 1 week of voting.
  6. Prize. A funded pool of at least $1 is the only requirement: per twin for separate prizes, per pool for a shared one. For twins, choose separate prizes, or one shared pool with a split.
  7. Organisation. Optional: your name, logo and URL, shown on the competition.
  8. Fund it from your balance, by card or by crypto. You see the total and the split before you pay.

Write a brief people want to answer#

  • Ask for one thing, not a platform.
  • Make every requirement testable by a voter in a minute.
  • Put the weight on what you care about most.
  • Do not ask for free work on your own product. Ask for something the builder can keep and show.

What sponsors get#

  • Your organisation's name, logo and link on the competition.
  • Entries that answer your brief, judged by many people in duels.
  • The option to buy an entry, if its builder puts it up for sale.

For a larger partnership, write to support@firstcommit.gg.