€250,000
A YEAR
One year of me, full time, with nobody to report to.
This is the cheapest tier and the one that actually changes something. Everything on this website was made in evenings. Imagine the evenings were the whole day.
SUGAR ME · PATRONAGE · UNSUPERVISED R&D
Are you rich,bored, andfeeling generous?
Are you rich and want to give me money to play around and just mess in technology stuff for fun and see what comes out of it? Enough for me — or even more.
You give me money and you get nothing in return.
That is the whole offer, stated plainly, because the alternative is a pitch deck and neither of us wants that. No deliverables. No roadmap. No quarterly business review. No milestones, no burn-down, nobody to escalate to.
If something good does come out of it, you are a partner in it. Properly — a real share of a real thing, written down at the time, not implied now.
But no promises. None. I am not going to stand here and tell you what the something is going to be, because I do not know, and anybody who tells you they do is selling you a different product.
It gets built with talent and AI — actual engineers who know what they are doing, working with models that do the parts humans are bad at and hate. Neither on its own. That combination is the whole reason a small number of people can now attempt things that used to need a department.
Suggestions are welcome, from anybody, funded or not. If you have a problem you think is interesting and nobody is working on it, send it. The best briefs have always arrived from people who were not asked.
someone is coming
THE MACHINE SUGGESTS
a CI pipeline that refuses to deploy on Fridays, and argues its case
Click anywhere to make someone walk on and throw money at me. The coins are real rigid bodies with real collisions, which is the most honest thing on this page.
What your money buys
€500,000
A YEAR AND A ROOM
The same, plus somewhere to put the machines.
The room will have too many monitors and one chair that everybody argues about. There will be a whiteboard nobody is allowed to clean.
€1,000,000
A SECOND PERSON
Now there are two of us and we can disagree properly.
One person building alone produces a hobby. Two people produce an argument, and an argument produces a decision. This is the single biggest jump on the list.
€2,500,000
A SMALL TEAM
Four or five people and three years of not asking permission.
No product manager. No sprint ceremony. If you have ever worked somewhere that had those and still shipped nothing, you already understand the value proposition.
€5,000,000
HARDWARE
The team, and machines that make the impossible merely slow.
Most 'that cannot be done in a browser' problems are actually 'that cannot be done on this laptop' problems. This tier finds out which is which.
€10,000,000
A REAL LAB
A building, a decade, and a licence to fail in public.
It gets a name. The name will be bad. You get veto rights over the name, and I will exercise my right to ignore your veto, which you may then also veto.
€50,000,000
A GENUINE PROBLEM
Pick something enormous and unglamorous. We go at it for ten years.
Energy. Health data. Infrastructure that nobody wants to own. The unfashionable ones, where the money normally is not and the problems certainly are.
€100,000,000
NO IDEA WHATSOEVER
At this point neither of us has any idea what happens.
Genuinely. There is no plan for this tier, and inventing one to impress you would break the only rule on the page. You would be finding out at exactly the same time I did.
What do I get?
Nothing. That is not a negotiating position, it is the product. If you need something in return, you want a contract, and I would be happy to talk about one — but that is a different page and a different kind of work.
What does "partner" actually mean?
If a thing turns into a thing — a product, a company, a piece of software somebody pays for — you own a real share of it, agreed in writing at the moment it stops being a toy. Not a thank-you in a README. An actual share.
And if nothing comes of it?
Then nothing comes of it and you funded some interesting failures. Most research is an expensive way of learning what does not work, and it is still how everything gets built. I will tell you exactly what broke, which is more than most funded projects manage.
Is this serious?
The page is a joke. The offer is not. Both things can be true, and in my experience usually are.
Why not just do it in your spare time?
I do — this entire site is that. Money buys hours, hardware, and the ability to abandon something without feeling guilty about the electricity.
Can I stay anonymous?
Yes. Nothing here publishes a name unless you ask it to.