Hey PH! We're announcing our biggest update to Pioneer since we first launched. We’re now giving every new Pioneer the option to receive a $20k investment for 2% of their company. We're also adding a monthlong trip to Silicon Valley. If you haven’t heard of Pioneer, here’s the quick gist: we are a startup accelerator born online. Instead of endless Zoom and gloom, Pioneer is kind of like a stock market for pre-seed companies. Anyone can sign up with their product. Then they get a weekly score that fluctuates based on progress. Talk to more users, the score goes up. Write more code, score goes up. Read Reddit, the score goes down. You get the idea. We have all the trimmings of a traditional accelerator too: selected founders become Pioneers who join our network, get mentorship, advice, etc. But that’s all icing on the cake; our desire is to build a web-native startup scene. We've funded 130+ companies from 50+ countries who've collectively raised over $100M. The hope is that the refreshed offer will make Pioneer more attractive to even more ambitious outsiders tinkering with new ideas. You can read more about the change here: https://pioneer.app/blog/announc.... As always, feedback much appreciated!

Using pioneer for more than a year now, always up there in the leaderboard but not being selected although my project is making money from day 1. Plus, I'm not receiving any feedback from them, so not sure on the process. That being said, I do receive good feedback from other people in the competition and this also seems a good update.

Amazing! Nice work Pioneer team🔥

Pioneer is what turned my company from an Indie Hacker project to a Start Up

Pioneers for the win! The greatest community on earth.

Honestly, I can't recommend Pioneer enough for anyone willing to start a project or a business. Having your perspective change from local to global while taking part in an absorbing culture is nothing short of amazing. Even on a personal level, participating in Pioneer accelerates growth dramatically. I really consider Pioneer as one of the best things to ever happen to underserved entrepreneurs and makers.

At Plutoview, we've been Pioneer winners and community members for way over a year now. I can vouch, that there is nothing better than Pioneer.app for an early stage startup. We love Pioneer, and we're really excited to see Pioneer 3.0 go live! 🚀

Pioneer is great for taking accountability. I found that it's easy for me to lose interest and accountability, pioneer helps me solve that. All the best!

Pioneer keeps getting better and better. Congrats on the launch 🎉

Joined the Pioneer community this year and at first did not even know that it was a competition. Really enjoyed participating for the accountability and learning about new startups. They keep rolling out new features and this latest has me excited to start off the new year and who knows maybe I'll be an "official" Pioneer by 2023! Highly recommend this product to any founder.

Pioneer is - no joke - one of the best things I ever did.

This is a great product and keep on keeping on rising high as a star!

?makers, why do you require date of birth and gender during sign up? What difference does this information make to the process or outcome?

Great offer for all the hustlers who want to go full-time on their project!

this is a very interesting concept.. congrats on launch

Pioneer is TOP for early-stage international founders! It's the next YC!

Congrats on the new release! Pioneer is definitely one of the top online accelerator for founders around the world, as well as one of the best startup communities out there.

great concept when the next cohort?

Such an amazing community and accelerator. Love the update!

I have been on Pioneer since the day we went live on 1st Aug 2020. Prior to Pioneer, I took part on an online community similar to Pioneer, almost a decade ago called nreduce with edocr.com, which was acquired by Accusoft in 2015. Pioneer has many first time founders. Many have a day time job or freelancing whilst they hustle with a tech startup. Not all companies are tech startups, which frustrates purists like me. Pioneer community has helped me to strengthen the value proposition of https://skilledup.life in the early days. As a solo founder, it provided me with weekly accountability. Our team which include a large number of Volunters is now over 20. Since those days, SkilledUp Life has grown to a volunteer community of 2,586 from 71 countries. We built the supply side first. We started developing the demand side (customers) on 1st November 2021 and now have 8 customers with £223 MRR, which includes two customers from Pioneer. I would recommend Pioneer to any tech startup. The accountability aspect is really helpful. The Tournament (while it has a mind of its own and doesn't really care about traction) is useful as we as humans always want to compete. The highest I've reached is this week. At present, I am at 34th, but typically rankings change during the week, which drives some of us potty. But overall, Pioneer is a good thing for the tech startup community. May it survive and live longer!