Fairmint - Share your company's success with your community

Hi Product Hunt👋! 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 Traditional equity is an outdated model — lots of intermediaries, designed for big checks, and reserved for insiders.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. ✅ We wanted our product to benefit both the founder and their community. ✅ We wanted founders to be able to issue and distribute equity simply, without all the hoops. ✅ And we wanted individuals to be able to invest or earn equity in companies they love. 👉 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 — 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 🤗. 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 🚀 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.

This is totally awesome. The concept, the execution, the tech. You guys are onto something big here. Kudos.

What an amazing way to democratize equity, along with Web3 security. Kudos to the idea :) @joris_paris

@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: → It is possible to use Fairmint with a French company? → 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!

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! 🤘

This is unbelievable, the Fairmint community is all over the world. Where are you guys from? Me I am from Hong Kong.

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!!

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.

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 😅 this is amazing to give them true upside GG!!

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!