What is being built
The projects
Ten projects. Eight are ready, two are under way. The first ones fund the next.
Project — under way
Reczi
Independent journalists and creators
Publish videos, articles and podcasts on your own journal, without depending on YouTube or Substack.
- The problem
- YouTube and Substack do two things very well: host for free and bring an audience. The difficulty starts when you want to make a living from it. Recommendation, the cut taken and the publishing conditions are decided without you, and can change overnight.
- What Reczi will do
- You drop in your rushes, audio, scripts and notes. Everything is transcribed and indexed, and any passage can be found to the second. You then publish on a journal that is yours.
- What it will not do
- Bring you a ready-made audience. Reczi replaces the tool and the hosting, not the recommendation algorithm. If being discovered through the platform is your first need, YouTube remains the right choice.
Project — under way
Collecting payments without a middleman
Anyone who sells online
Make Lungor an authorised payment institution, instead of depending on someone else's licence.
- The problem
- Collecting money is a regulated trade. So everyone goes through a licensed provider, which takes its cut and sets its terms. The dependency is regulatory, not technical.
- Where we stand
- Lungor collects today under the licence of a regulated provider. The project is to make it that provider, or failing that the only front in front of it. Four regulatory steps lead there; we are on the first.
Open to proposals
The ideas
What comes next is not written, and we would rather say so.
A service you depend on that costs you too much, a tool independents lack, a means nobody offers outside the large platforms: describe it. We read everything, we answer, and an idea we take on is published here with its author if they wish.
Propose an ideaWho pays
The applications fund the projects.
Thanks to a shared organisation, a single stream of funding keeps every application alive, including those on their way. Using an application is the most direct way to move these projects forward.