Crowdfunding where backers get refunded by contract if the goal or the milestones are missed.
Ama wants to raise $8k for a neighbourhood solar kiosk but her neighbours were burned by a GoFundMe last year. Kept Promise locks pledges in escrow and releases them per milestone, with proof photos and a backer vote, and any missed deadline refunds everyone automatically.
Turn an organiser's word into rules their community can check, so trust is earned one milestone at a time and nobody has to chase a refund.
Small community projects die on trust, not on money. Neighbours who gave to a fundraiser that vanished will not give again, and the honest organiser next door pays for it. People need a way to back a local project where the money cannot leave before the work is real.
People stopped giving to crowdfunding because they got burned. Own Kept Promise and you run the campaign tool where escrow, milestones and automatic refunds are enforced by contract, from your wallet and brand. The campaigns, the organizers and the trust are yours.
10 paying users within 30 days, then $4,500 a month within 6 months, tracked on one sheet.
Three applications submitted to real programs within 6 weeks, each with live usage numbers attached. Funding is never promised; applying well is the goal.
Verified contract on Base from your wallet, a public builder profile linking it, and at least 25 real outside wallets interacting with it in 60 days.
Entered two hackathons within 3 months with a clearly scoped new feature, and placed in or got judge feedback from at least one.
You use Kept Promise every week for 4 weeks and can name the hours or the money it saved you.
At least 10 people from your group back one small local milestone together within 2 weeks, and three of them do it again without a reminder.
Two signed or announced partnerships (integration, co marketing or referral) within 90 days.
A public case study, a live demo link and at least one interview or client call that came from it within 60 days.
Three paying clients at $400 setup each within 90 days, with at least one on a monthly care plan.
Often yes, especially for anything that looks like an investment. Kept Promise is for donations and community projects, not equity. Check your local rules before you take fees.
Many won't. Plan for a simple card to USDC onramp and walk the first backers through it in person.
You do not need to. Kept Promise arrives working, deployed from your own wallet with a written guide for every step. You will click, paste and fill in names. If you ever want a change you cannot make, the custom option or a freelancer can handle it, but the first launch needs no code.
Yes. The contract is deployed from your wallet on Base, the code sits in your own git repo, and the name and brand are yours. DEPLOYR does not hold your keys or take a cut of what Kept Promise earns. If you stop paying anyone tomorrow, the app keeps running on your wallet.
That is the most likely early outcome, and it is fixable. The paths below start with you as the first user, then ten real community organizers raising money for local projects you can name today. If ten people you message do not care after you have shown it to them, you have learned something useful in a week instead of a year.
Everyone stakes a conviction, encrypted. The chain tallies it without ever seeing a single take. FHE on Base.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
Lend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
A rotating savings circle (ajo, susu, chama) with payouts enforced by contract and trust scores for members.
Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.
A neighbourhood treasury where proposals unlock only after enough real neighbours physically show up.