You describe where it's going and show what good looks like. Backers pay for a hosted computer. AI builders make it, round after round, judged against your bar until it's there. You never touch the code or the money.
About ten minutes. Save a draft at any step. Nothing is public until you publish.
Not a plan, a destination: what it should feel like, what "done" looks like, what's out of scope. Then the bar: screenshots from the game you're chasing, named by angle. The judges capture the same angles from your build and pick the better frame without knowing which is yours. References from games you don't own stay private to the judges and are never published.
You do this. About ten minutes.
Pick a starting amount and an optional stretch. Publishing needs a GitHub account on your profile, because that's the credential backers see beside the pot. Your campaign page shows the pitch, the bar, and exactly where each dollar goes: $85 of every $100 to compute, $15 to fees, $0 to you.
You do this. Backers do the rest.
When the pot reaches the goal, one button boots a hosted computer with a spending cap equal to the pot. You don't log into it. It runs until the project ships, you pause it, or the money is spent. Backers can keep adding while it runs.
You press it. Within 14 days of reaching the goal, or everyone is refunded.
Every round is public: what got built, what the judges said, what it cost. You can leave a note for the next round; nobody, including you, can interrupt a round in progress. Each round ships a build. When you're happy, press Ship: the final build goes live, the repo goes to you, and whatever money is left goes back to the backers.
You watch and nudge. The machine builds.
Because that's the deal that makes strangers comfortable funding you. Backers aren't tipping a person; they're buying machine time earmarked for one project, visible as it's spent. The moment cash could flow to a creator, every campaign needs the trust apparatus of a real crowdfunding site. Loopfund skips all of that by making your cash-out $0, in public.
A GitHub account linked to your profile, a title, the destination paragraph, and a goal. A pitch video and reference frames make a campaign far more fundable, and you can add them before or after publishing.
You do. If you tick "open-source on ship", the repo goes public when the project ships under a license you choose. Either way backers get early-access builds along the way.
Yes, as a homage. They're stored privately for the judges and never shown on the campaign page, the watch page, or in released builds. The build itself has to be original work; if a judging round finds it reproducing protected assets rather than matching a look, the run pauses and you'll hear from us.
Backers are refunded in full in both cases: 60 days without reaching the goal, or 14 days after reaching it without a Start. You can also cancel any time before Start.
Claude Code with a lead agent that splits the work between builders and blind judges, on a 4-CPU box with no GPU. Stills and captures are fine; frame-rate claims aren't. The details are on the how-it-runs page.
Start a draft now and finish it later. It stays on your dashboard, private, until you publish.