$620 is held for this project. Start the build?
Starting boots a machine, not a payout. Once it's running, backers can keep adding money and the build keeps going until you ship, you pause, or the pot is empty.
In pot$62031 backers · charged and settled
Becomes tokens$52785% · the OpenRouter key for this run is capped at $515 (a $12 reserve covers requests in flight)
Your cash-out$0Always. There is no withdraw button anywhere in Loopfund.
Runway≈ 12 wavesat a typical $41/wave · roughly 1.5 days of continuous running
What Start run does
1Mints an OpenRouter key for this run only, limit $515, pinned to Anthropic first-party.
2Boots a 4 vCPU sandbox from the Loopfund template. Clones your run repo. Writes your destination and the 7 reference frames into
bar/.3Starts Claude Code with the Gauntlet Loop prompt. Wave 1 begins: the lead splits the work, spawns builders and critics.
4Every wave: 11-shot capture, blind A/B against your bar, GitHub Release, workbench snapshot to the public watch page.
5Pot empty → pause on the same disk. Top-up → resume. You can pause or ship at any wave boundary.
You will not
Log into the machine. Chat with the builder mid-wave. Change the bar after start. Withdraw money. You will watch, playtest each build, queue notes for the next critic round, pause, and ship. There is a logged break-glass attach if something is truly wrong.
✓I've read the above. Start the machine.