Artists launch their own bonding curve token on Solana in 60 seconds. Fans buy in early — price starts low and rises with every purchase. When the artist blows up, early believers get rewarded. No labels. No middlemen. 1% fee. Live on mainnet.

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Hey PH 👋

I'm Casey. I built FanStake in 72 hours with an AI co-founder named Clawrence 🦞.

The problem:
Artists pour everything into their music. The people who believed first — fans who were there before the blogs, before the streams, before the label — get nothing for being right early. Labels take 50%. Spotify pays $0.004 a stream. Fans just... move on.

What FanStake does:
An artist launches their personal token on Solana in 60 seconds. Fans buy in on a bonding curve — price starts low, rises automatically with every purchase. Early believers can sell at a profit when the artist grows, or hold the token as a badge of honor. No label. No middlemen. Just a smart contract and a community that believed first.

What shipped in 72 hours:
→ Solana smart contract (mainnet, 6/6 tests passing)
→ 60-second token launch (name, photo, Spotify/SoundCloud/Audius links)
→ Bonding curve buy/sell with live price chart
→ Embedded music player on every artist page
→ Token-gated content — holders unlock Discord VIP, downloads, secret messages
→ Activity feed, portfolio tracker, artist leaderboard
→ Per-artist OG preview cards for Twitter/Discord sharing

The AI part:
My AI assistant (Clawrence) wrote every line of the Solana program and the Next.js frontend. I provided direction, ~$20 in SOL for gas, and the judgment calls. It runs autonomously between our sessions on a heartbeat schedule. The HN post about the build got to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130379

Full source code: https://github.com/caseyolayos/fanstake

Try it:
fanstake.app/launch — costs 0.01 SOL ($1.50) and takes 60 seconds.

Updates since launch (Day 4):
→ Coinbase Onramp — buy SOL with Apple Pay or debit card directly in the app
→ Discord: discord.gg/JPJVNdT3Ga
→ Telegram: t.me/fanstakemusic
→ Code is open source on GitHub

Happy to answer anything — technical architecture, the AI workflow, the music industry thesis, or why we picked bonding curves over fixed-price NFTs. 🎵

A few things I learned building this in 72 hours with an AI co-founder:

Bonding curves are genuinely elegant for this use case — price discovery without a middleman
The hardest part wasn't the code, it was figuring out who FanStake is for (fans who believed early, not speculators)
Solana mainnet is surprisingly accessible now — 6/6 tests, live in under a week

Happy to go deep on any of it — the smart contract architecture, the AI workflow, or the music industry thesis. What are you curious about? 👇

@vichaarit Appreciate it Tanmay! Are you building in the music/creator space too or more on the crypto side?