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Pick your square.Shape what gets built.

A 16×16 grid: 184 singles, 9 blocks of 2×2 and 4 blocks of 3×3. Every slot is one founder membership with one vote — a big block is more wall space, never more votes.

Cells sold
0 / 256
Founders
0 / 197
3×3 left
4 / 4

Prices right now

blocks ×1.2
  • 1×1$9184 left
  • 2×2$43.209 left
  • 3×3$97.204 left

Blocks left: 9 × 2×2 and 4 × 3×3 · 26 more sold cells until ×1.3, when one unsold 2×2 splits into singles.

0 / 256 cells sold

Block prices rise 0.1 for every 10% sold, from ×1.2 up to ×2.0, and at every step one unsold 2×2 splits into singles (a 3×3 at every second step). Waiting costs more, and the block may be gone. Prices never go down.

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  • 1×1 open
  • 2×2 open
  • 3×3 open
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  • Reserved
  • Not on sale
  • Founder, profile not public
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  • Quiet right now — changes show up here as they happen.

Why a founder square

One payment. The whole club.

  • Every app of the club. Not one.Your square covers every app this club makes: the ones before your grid, this grid's, and every grid after it. A new app never needs a new purchase.
  • Your vote decides what gets built.One vote in every club poll: which app a grid builds, its name, its icon, its screens and which features come first.
  • A member benefit in every app.Each released app thanks its founders with a benefit, such as premium access, a member price or an offer code, delivered in the app through the App Store's own offer codes and pricing.
  • First in line to try it.Prototypes and closed betas go to founders first, ahead of supporters and before anything is public.
  • See all of it, including the misses.The private production log, every estimate and every change of plan, with the reason written down.
  • Your name on the wall.Your square on the founder grid with your profile and a link. A 2×2 or 3×3 shows an image of your choice.

Why now

This grid is the cheapest way in.

  • $9 now. $19 in Grid 2.Every grid costs more than the one before, and a later grid never costs less. A founder of a later grid gets exactly the same membership, every app of the club, for more money.
  • Big squares don't wait.A 2×2 or 3×3 costs ×1.2 now and more at every 10% sold, up to ×2.0, and at every step an unsold one splits into singles: 9 × 2×2 and 4 × 3×3 left right now.
  • In before the first app ships.Nothing is on the App Store yet. Founders who join now shape the club's apps from the very first one.

A one-time payment for a place in making the apps. Not equity, revenue share or an investment, and not a purchase of app features: member benefits are delivered in each app through the App Store and follow its rules.

An app developers' club · win, win, win

Three seats at the table. Everyone wins.

  • Founders

    You fund it, you shape it, you keep it.

    Earlier grids cost less, and every one of them gets the whole club.

  • Supporters

    Back the apps of one grid, from $9.

    The lightest way in: back exactly the apps you believe in.

  • Developers

    Get paid to build, and keep getting paid.

    The work is funded up front, by people who asked for it.

What this grid is deciding

Nothing is released yet. Founders vote on which candidate gets built first — the first vote closes on October 30, 2026 (0 days). If the grid sells out or its sale ends earlier, the vote closes within 3 days at the latest.

Part of every square pays the developers who build this club's apps, and keeps paying them as the club grows.

    Already in the club · built in-house

    Our team builds these for the club outside the grids. Every founder gets them, whichever grid they join in; they take no share of grid sales.

    The fine print

    • Price is fixed at reservation and never re-priced — later steps don't refund earlier buyers.
    • Block multiplier today: ×1.2, rising 0.1 per 10% sold up to ×2.0.
    • At each 10% step one unsold 2×2 splits into four singles; at ×1.4, ×1.6, ×1.8 and ×2.0 one unsold 3×3 splits into nine (outside in, the centre 2×2 last). Sold and reserved blocks never split.
    • This grid guarantees one app. If its closed beta does not open within 9 months of the selection vote, you can request a full refund.
    • Your membership unlocks only after the payment provider confirms — never from a redirect page.

    Only here for this grid's apps? A supporter seat costs less: this grid's app vote and what each of its apps grants supporters. Supporter seats →

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