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Fairmint - Share your company's success with your community

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Give your community skin in the game. Fairmint empowers you to grant equity to anyone that adds value to your company and passively receive investment from your biggest fans. Launch in a few clicks and get back to building your business.

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Joris Delanoue
Hi Product HuntπŸ‘‹! I’m Joris, co-founder of Fairmint. I am thrilled to launch today on Product Hunt! Since 2007, I've been working on ways to give more ownership and equity to people who add value to my companies. I wanted to give them more skin in the game, to be able to share the profits I had from the success of my businesses. But aligning interests and sharing your equity is so hard. Traditional equity is an outdated model β€” lots of intermediaries, designed for big checks, and reserved for insiders. In late 2018, with my co-founder @thibauld , who is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, in crypto for a decade, we started to design an equity tool that would offer a 10X better experience. βœ… We wanted our product to benefit both the founder and their community. βœ… We wanted founders to be able to issue and distribute equity simply, without all the hoops. βœ… And we wanted individuals to be able to invest or earn equity in companies they love. πŸ‘‰ Introducing Fairmint, equity of the future. Fairmint empowers founders to receive investment from their biggest fans as well as VCs and grant equity to anyone that adds value to their company, like users, gig workers, employees -- anyone really. You can launch in minutes, and get back to building your business. To put it simply, we are building the Shopify for equity. Inspired by the crypto movement, we've built a full-stack solution with every process automated on-chain β€” giving our product the transparency, programmability, and compliance our customers deserve. During our successful beta phase, we helped a dozen of start-ups raise over $20M from their community. And as "skin in the game" is our motto, we eat our own dog food πŸ€—. We've used our own technology to raise $7.4 million to date from 330 investors all around the world who support our mission. You can check out how much we've raised from our community and where our valuation is right on our home page. Have you ever woken up in the morning with $10K or even $150K in your account from an investor you never even pitched? We have and so have our customers. It's an aha moment for them. With Fairmint, you can raise in your sleep πŸš€ The cherry on top is that it's completely free until you get your first investment, making it a no-brainer for founders at any stage. Big picture, we believe Fairmint will help democratize access to opportunities to create wealth that were previously reserved for insiders. When the next Airbnb or Uber goes public, the earliest hosts, drivers, guests, and riders should access the financial upside that the community helped build. We're super excited for the Product Hunt community to take a look at what we've been up to. Best, We’d love to hear any and all feedback you have and we’ll be looking at comments here all day.
thibauld
@joris_paris I am biased but... Fairmint is an epic product :P
Ryan Nisbet
@joris_paris I deeply believe a world where everyone can have ownership in the companies they add value to and love is a much better world.
SMJ
@joris_paris @thibauld A worthy cause and impressive product! Keep up the great work!!
thibauld
@joris_paris all the comments on this page really warm my heart πŸ₯°
thibauld
Love to see such an international community rooting for Fairmint πŸ”₯ Many french founders @edouardpetit @etienne_l @philippe_honigman and many others... seems like launching Fairmint to France should be bumped up in our (long) priority list πŸ˜…
Dan Robins
This is totally awesome. The concept, the execution, the tech. You guys are onto something big here. Kudos.
Dan Robins
...Also your video is super cool. I have to admit that I don't usually have the time to stick around until the end, but this had me hooked, and made me chuckle. TOP work.
Dan Robins
Congrats on the launch guys, I can't wait to tell my team about this! (that 'Invest' CTA is a game-changer!)
Joris Delanoue
πŸ™Œ @dan_robins Appreciate the kudos ❀️ The team is often among the biggest asset you get in a company. Ours is dedicated, united, mission-driven. It helps deliver from conception to production, even on complex and legal matters. Thank you, Dan, and more than happy to continue our discussion any time, on telegram or email: jorisATfairmint.co
Joris Delanoue
This video is EPIC I agree. I remember my 1st feeling when I watched videos from Adam Lisagor at Sandwich. I thought: if I need to explain a complex thing, Adam is the storyteller I want. A few weeks after, we had a zoom together and at the end of the meeting, he invested! It was obvious then we would work together and he started to make the best pitch we could ever have.
Joris Delanoue
πŸ˜… re: invest CTA is a game changer: indeed @dan_robins , some of our customers have an impressive transformation rate putting in their checkout flow. I wish I had such a button on Figma, on Slite, on Miro, on Notion, on... yeah, with it, I would have invested in pretty much all tools I use every day!
Gaurav Goyal
What an amazing way to democratize equity, along with Web3 security. Kudos to the idea :) @joris_paris
Joris Delanoue
hey @gauravgoyal_gg πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Thanks for your kudos πŸ€— Glad to have you help us amplify the message around democratizing access to wealth.
Gaurav Goyal
@joris_paris Yeah it could be very powerful. Best part is one can do it themselves than going to the aggregators.
Joris Delanoue
Correct @gauravgoyal_gg Our industry relies on regulated incumbents. As soon as you start getting rid of the middlemen, there is no more insider's game.
Ryan Nisbet
@gauravgoyal_gg Thanks a lot ! It means a lot for us
Edouard PETIT
@thibauld @joris_paris congratulation guys for this launch! I am following Fairmint from the beginning at TheFamily. Super idea and perfect execution! Keep going to deploy your vision! I am very interested to use it with Magma but I have 2 questions: β†’ It is possible to use Fairmint with a French company? β†’ Can I bring my first round into it (shares and employees equity)? Or should I do it for another round? Happy to discuss about it! Cheers!
Joris Delanoue
MERCIIIIIII @edouardpetit ❀️ Quel chemin depuis TheFamily indeed. I still remember our 1st photo shooting, or 1st keynote about Fairmint by @thibauld 25 rue du Petit Musc in Paris. There is such a strong bond with TheFamily ecosystem, between all founders, still years after. This is amazing.
Joris Delanoue
OK so I stop the nostalgia πŸ˜… and address your questions @edouardpetit : β†’ is it possible to use Fairmint with a French company? We are designed for US C-Corp πŸ₯° and we start to have multiple requests from Europe and Asia. Multiple founders have already decided to embrace the πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ play and have incorporated an entity in the US. Some also explore the ability to do it while being abroad. It is something you might want to discuss with local lawyers and we will be happy to join the discussion at any time. As soon as we feel the regulation is as clear in Europe as it is in the US, count on us to pave the way :-)
Joris Delanoue
and your 2nd question @edouardpetit β†’ Can I bring my first round into it (shares and employees equity)? Or should I do it for another round? OH YEAH! πŸ’― We've been building Fairmint with @thibauld with the objective that anyone who adds value to your company could access the financial upside he helps build. It works for employees yes. But they are among the insiders in the traditional (and outdated) equity world. We've also focused our work on community members. Imagine if Travis Kalanick, early days at Uber, had had Fairmint and offered $UBER to his 1st drivers... How many lives would have been changed? We believe in social capitalism, in community ownership. More than happy to continue discussing it! Ping us on telegram or twitter or email us: jorisATfairmint.co or thibauldATfairmint.co
Joris Delanoue
Tellement. Venant de Paris, "on a tous en nous, quelque chose de TheFamily" 🎢 πŸ˜… @thibauld @edouardpetit
Ryan Nisbet
@edouardpetit You are an OG Fairmint fan!
Nick Russell
Well this is awesome! I'm totally going to check this out in more detail in the lead up to our next round of funding! 🀘
Nick Russell
Love the concept and the execution, particularly your promo video ha ha - really nicely done!
Nick Russell
Congrats on the launch and all the best for today and the future πŸš€
Joris Delanoue
Sounds awesome @n_russell While taping this comment I see notifications. Members from our customers' community are investing live. They sign an investment agreement in seconds and support the product they love investing. I let you imagine the aha moment when the founders wake up with $10k or $50k from a member they never pitched. 😎
Joris Delanoue
This video is EPIC because the story is huge ;-) And the storyteller, Adam Lisagor is fantastic.
Song H.
This is unbelievable, the Fairmint community is all over the world. Where are you guys from? Me I am from Hong Kong.
Ryan Nisbet
@song_haichen I am in NYC right now. Joris and Thibauld help bring in an international crowd. @charliebullock is from UK it sounds like.
Ryan Nisbet
@song_haichen Based on Product Hunt's launch day dashboard we have seen people from all continents today (minus Antarctica)
Joris Delanoue
You are right @song_haichen ! It is impressive.
Laura Prodea
@song_haichen I'm from Romania! @monika_bhatt @kateryna_korolenko where are you located now?
PhilH
Amazing idea, but above all amazing execution!! The amount of work and creativity to make community ownership real, simple... and legal, is absolutely massive. As a crypto-networks aficionado, I'm often unsettled by the microscopic size of the crypto space. It's so comforting to see such a practical and accessible approach of Shared Value, available to everyone and every business. Fairmint has a real shot at delivering some long-awaited benefits of crypto at a massive scale. Bravo!!
Joris Delanoue
What a comment @philippe_honigman , what a support πŸ™Œ ! This is also Fairmint. A strong community, built over the years with people who believe in what we are doing.
Joris Delanoue
Indeed crypto has been used more and more over the last few years. Sometimes well, sometimes poorly. I am a crypto-pragmatic and when we teamed up with @thibauld it was already 6 or 7 years that he was in crypto. He knew everyone and everyone knew him in the industry. Together we kept building, choosing the hard path of crypto-securities vs crypto-currencies and yes we strongly believe we can deliver some of those long-awaited benefits of crypto you mention @philippe_honigman Thank you for supporting us πŸ™Œ
thibauld
@philippe_honigman Thanks a lot Philippe! Coming from you, it means a lot πŸ€—
Ryan Nisbet
Pierre-Camille Hamana
Few things are promising to be as impactful to our business as Fairmint: - We raised nearly $900k without a pitch deck from our community, 90% of them being customers who love the product and want to be part of the journey! Any company that does not have some equity committed to their community is probably losing out on some of the cheapest capital available to them. - As a bootstrapped company, it was always tricky to contemplate compensating our team with options. Fairmint solves that 10x better than any VC-backed startup! More importantly: those options are valuable because they have buyers amongst our own customers. I don't think I have seen anything as powerful to build long-term alignment! I am a huge believer in Fairmint's success, and as a customer, I have seen their product velocity exploding in recent months.
Joris Delanoue
πŸ™Œ @pierre_camille_hamana Thumbs up πŸ‘ All the team at Fairmint has been impressed by your vision as a founder, and as a community builder.
Joris Delanoue
You've proved how a community can support a founder, a product, a company they love @pierre_camille_hamana
Joris Delanoue
And you executed it so well, turning your users, your customers into owners @pierre_camille_hamana So well that now it signals VCs how robust and supportive your community is. This is a genius. We couldn't be more proud that you 've been using Fairmint to make community ownership a reality at Hospitable. Kudos to you @pchamana
thibauld
@pierre_camille_hamana thanks Pierre-Camille!! You sure are killing it, we super proud to have you as a customer and early adopter!! πŸ”₯
Ryan Nisbet
@pierre_camille_hamana I've loved seeing Hospitable have so much success
Christophe Pasquier
Looooooooove it, this makes so much sense, so many of our early users contributed to our product, they are one of the best growth driver and all we can give them is more voice and.. swag packs πŸ˜… this is amazing to give them true upside GG!!
flo merian
Launching soon!
@christophepas Please keep me posted if you consider it for Slite <3
Ryan Nisbet
@christophepas Thank you for the support! Our launch today was planned entirely in Slite hahaha
Ryan Nisbet
@fmerian πŸ‘€πŸ’―
Joris Delanoue
πŸ™Œ @christophepas thank you, and your entire team! We love Slite at Fairmint & we are all use it every day. What's missing on Slite? Not the Kanban view, we know it is around the corner. The "community" button of course powered by Fairmint 😁 Thank you for your support Christophe πŸ™
Joris Delanoue
WOW see @christophepas Your community has your back. Whenever you are ready to give your community skin in the game, we will be there ;-) What do you prefer @fmerian for your portfolio? $SLT or $SLITEπŸ’Ž
Charlie DURAND
Big fan of FairMint, I feel like it opens so many possibilities for the future of governance/ownership of companies. I'm french and yet I'm seriously considering incorporating my next company in the US, only to be able to use FairMint!
Joris Delanoue
Hey @charlotte_durand1 Thank you for your message. Since we started discussing this on our webinar, I know you've so supportiveπŸ₯° and it means a lot to me
Joris Delanoue
Whatever you will decide @charlotte_durand1 , we will be here for you πŸ€— like all founders we've worked with. Did you check the latest product updates already?
Charlie DURAND
@joris_paris Not yet but it's def on my to-do! I'm hyping FairMint in the parisian web3 ecosystem, would be awesome to have you on a conf at some point!
Ryan Nisbet
@charlotte_durand1 Love this! Thanks Charlotte
thibauld
@charlotte_durand1 Thank you Charlie, we'll be here for you :)
Patrick Favre
Hi, I do very much believe that business success must reward all companies’ stakeholders and allow everyone to contribute anytime. Process should be flawless and fluid. World is lacking tools to allow this desired necessary transformation. We need trustful pathfinders. Fairmint is very instrumental in this unavoidable transformation of capitalism. Just love Fairmint’s proposal.
Joris Delanoue
Wow 😌 @patrick_favre That's a declaration πŸ₯° Thank you.
Joris Delanoue
Indeed we need to pave the way for a more sustainable and social capitalism @patrick_favre Working at realigning stakeholders' interests also meant redesigning the Equity. Blockchain technology facilitates such a movement and reading all comments and private messages we receive today, the world waits eagerly for this movement.
thibauld
@patrick_favre Funny: we share the same last name!! πŸ˜„Thank you so much for your everlasting support Dad. Signed: your loving 41y old son πŸ€—
Ryan Nisbet
@patrick_favre Love this!
Justin Johnson
This is really cool. Love the idea and congrats on the launch! We were looking at wefunder as a crowdsource platform and decided against it for a number of reasons but mostly because we heard from other founders how difficult it was to get all the necessary follow ups, i.e. tax IDs, personal information, and even the actual cash investment. How does Fairmint help with that sort of stuff? Few other questions... Is there a min investment or do the companies decide that? Does it create a huge cap table with all the individual investors? Who created the video?! It's so good!!
Ryan Nisbet
@justin_govy Hey Justin! With Fairmint investors provide everything at the moment they want to invest. They don't wait for the round to close. There is also incentive to get in fast because you can raise the valuation at anytime.
Ryan Nisbet
@justin_govy You control the minimum investment and everything else in your portal.
Ryan Nisbet
@justin_govy All investors are under one line item in the cap table. This makes it easy to handle.
Ryan Nisbet
@justin_govy Adam Lisagor from Sandwich made the video. they make amazing ads
Ryan Nisbet
@justin_govy what are you building Justin?
Damien
I love the mission πŸ™Œ It has been a pleasure to follow your journey and to be able to join as an investor. Congrats πŸ‘ Looking forward to following the next steps!
Damien
Fairmint is probably the only reason why I would consider flipping our company into the US!
Joris Delanoue
Hey @damiencourbon Glad that our mission resonates so well with you, you decided to support us and even invest! Dogfooding is our DNA. We've designed the tool to give skin in the game. It was obvious we would start with our own community. So your words mean a lot to me. Thank you Damien.
Joris Delanoue
πŸ€— this is a big move @damiencourbon and so far, it costs $500 to incorporate. And everything is digital, automated, and simple. If you decide to jump, let us know, and we will make sure we turn our investor into a customer πŸ˜† Don't hesitate to ping me jorisATfairmint.co or telegram joris_DLN
Ryan Nisbet
@damiencourbon So cool! Thank you for the support 😁
thibauld
@damiencourbon We're happy to count you as an investor Damien! Thanks a lot for your kind words :)
Rahul Nair
Great job y’all! Love the design and flow. Looks super clean and user-friendly. Congrats on your launch!
Joris Delanoue
πŸ™Œ @rahul_nair93 This is such a great feedback. Let me brag about our team on design: our DA Kate works with us since more than 3y now and is fantastic, (on top of being super brave there In Kyiv). And with Paul joining the team last year, let me make it simple: our imagination is limitless. So thank you @rahul_nair93 for highlighting their talents as well πŸ™Œ
Ryan Nisbet
@rahul_nair93 Kate and Paul are our in house Picassos
thibauld
@rahul_nair93 That's music to our ears 🎢🎢Thank you for your kind words Rahul!
Leroy Etienne
This is the Future of fundraising! Great job. When are you making it available beyond the US?
Joris Delanoue
πŸ‘‹ @etienne_l Thank you for your message. Indeed we are the equity of the future
Joris Delanoue
@etienne_l Re: "available beyond the US": people around the world already have access to any company using Fairmint tech. They can earn equity or invest money. Super easily. Now for companies, our product is designed for US C-Corp. That said, multiple lawyers in Europe and now in Asia started to work on making Fairmint available there as well ;-) In the meantime, we have great examples of founders with entities outside of the US who incorporated in the US and leveraged our tech ;-)
thibauld
@etienne_l Thanks a lot Etienne! Right now we're laser-focused on the US market but, being french founders, opening France would be dear to our heart. We'll need more funding though :P Right now, best option to use Fairmint is by far to flip your company in the US :)
Ryan Nisbet
@etienne_l Thanks for checking us out today Leroy!
Monika Bhatt
Epic video and such a cool product!! πŸ₯³πŸ€―
Ryan Nisbet
@monika_bhatt πŸ˜πŸŽ‰
Joris Delanoue
You know a lot about the product, don't you @monika_bhatt πŸ€—
Joris Delanoue
thank you so much for your support @monika_bhatt
Monika Bhatt
@joris_paris Yes I do!! And I can vouch that it is a game changer. 😊😁😁
Jenny Cox
How do you set the business logic of $ to equity? Specifically who sets the valuation?
SMJ
@jenny_cox Companies can utilize an automated bonding curve to price their tokens according to demand! The company can also choose to manually control their valuation, and therefore the price of their equity tokens, just as founders negotiate and accept different prices when doing paper SAFEs today! Let us know if you have any other questions, we appreciate your support and interest!
Joris Delanoue
Hi @jenny_cox thank you for your message.
Jenny Cox
@eric_preston thanks so much for the quick reply. So just to confirm companies can set their own valuation and how much they're looking to raise and basically its up to investors to invest (validate) or not invest (invalidate) based on their belief in the company. i.e. the investor base / market regulates itself.
Joris Delanoue
If we created a 10x better experience with equity, we don't change the decision-making process and founders still decide on their allocation and its valuation @jenny_cox
SMJ
@jenny_cox Exactly! And the company has flexibility to adjust things as needed based on traction and demand!
Marko Prljic
Woohoo! Congrats guys! :)
Joris Delanoue
Thanks so much @markoprljic ! Your support means a lot to us!
Ryan Nisbet
@markoprljic Thanks so much for your support!
thibauld
@markoprljic Thanks a lot Marko!
MJ Amartaivan
Congratulations to whole Fairmint team & their community & investors! πŸΎπŸŽ‰πŸ₯³ Keep it up guys!!!
Joris Delanoue
πŸ™Œ @mendorshikh you've been a believer from day 1. We couldn't stop to thank you and your team for your trust. We are very proud of the work accomplished together, the impressive community you gathered and how you leverage Fairmint tech MJ. Congrats to you and all your team at ERXES for making our vision possible and real! ❀️
thibauld
@mendorshikh thanks a lot for your support MJ!! Good to have you here πŸ€—
Ryan Nisbet
@mendorshikh Thanks MJ! Founding customers like you are vital
lior goldenberg
Fairmint is giving founders and users the tool they need to enjoy the opportunities web3 introduced to the world, abstracting away all the hassle of using web3 apps, and creating more alignment between the various stakeholders. The part I like the most is the ability to programmatically allocate users equity in your company, based on their contribution to the success of it - power users can be rewarded with equity, without all the legal and compliance overhead - all taken care by the platform
Joris Delanoue
We are proud investee @lior_goldenberg1 πŸ™Œ Thank you for being a strong member of our community and for your support from day 1. Indeed, blockchain tech accelerated the process: software ate Equity. At Fairmint using Ethereum, we've created a 10x better experience with Equity. We make it Provable, Traceable, Standardized, Transferable, and wait for it😁 P R O G R A M M A B L E It is always a pleasure to discuss Lior and share our vision during our regular calls or chats on tg. Looking forward to our next session ;-)
thibauld
@lior_goldenberg1 Thank you so much for your kind words Lior!
Ryan Nisbet
@lior_goldenberg1 Thanks a lot ! It means a lot for us