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Is Your Audience Worth Building A Startup Around?

For creators who already monetize and want to own a product, not just promote someone else's. We co-build the company with you for your audience. You bring the audience. You hold the majority stake.

★ 0.6% acceptance · 5 picks next cohort · 5 minutes to apply

Question 1 of 7 5 min to apply

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What's your name?

Enterto continue
02 / 07

What's your email?

Where we reach you if we want to talk.

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Where does your audience live?

Add every social you're on. A partner opens these the moment your application lands.

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How big is your audience?

Rough number.

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Do you have a community?

A brand, business, or niche space, not tied to one person's face. Communities of any size qualify. Personal brands need 5K+ to apply.

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How do you make money right now?

Be specific. Rough monthly number is fine.

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What is your unfair advantage, and what would you build?

Could be your audience, your network, your customers, past companies, what you know better than most. Be specific. "I have 5 ideas, no clue" works fine for the build part.

Got it. Someone is reading your application now.

If we want to talk, we'll send you a calendar link. If not, you'll get a note back telling you what we'd want to see next time you apply.

While you wait

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Run the Money Map. If we end up talking, you'll have the data ready. If not, you still get a clear next step. Free.

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Brands we have built for
The deal

We co-build it for your audience.

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Success stories

Some of the creators we have built with.

Different niches. Different audiences. Same playbook. We came up with the idea with them, validated with paid users, then shipped a real product. The numbers below are live.

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Brett Malinowski
@thebrettway · YouTube
"What I really appreciate about Gaply is that I can bring the vision and they take care of all the details and technical aspects. From the WGMI website to our Engage to Earn platform, it has been great to just hand off projects and know they will come back with a polished finished product."
$100K+/mo WGMI Media · 50K followers at pivot · paid newsletter + community + agency
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Alec · FadedWealth
@youfadedwealth · X
Alec's testimonial · pending
$50K+ MRR Clipur · 40K followers at pivot · B2B SaaS marketplace
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LiveHim
@thelivehim · Instagram
LiveHim's testimonial · pending
$10K+/mo LiveHim App · 30K followers at pivot · iOS + Android · recurring subs
Why this exists

Y Combinator picks startups. We pick creators.

Most places that help startups ask "how good is the startup?" We ask "how good is your audience?" Because we already know how to build the startup. We have done it 100+ times. What we don't have is your audience.

Who applies

We turn down most. That's the point.

You should apply if

  • Your audience actually pays attention to you
  • You already make money from them
  • You want to OWN a product, not just promote other people's stuff
  • You move fast. We want partners, not pen pals.

You shouldn't apply if

  • You don't make any money from your audience yet
  • You treat content as a hobby
  • You're looking for a course or a coaching call
  • You want someone you can boss around, not a partner
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