story.markets
Edition 01 · an opening market

What stories are worth funding?

Three people. Three levels of unfinished work. A market for the future they are trying to make visible.

Money is one flow. Attention, proof, and useful information are another. The point is to see both before the story gets flattened into a product.

Enter the first round

Three opening markets

Pick a level. Read the bet.

01 / 03new world

An 11yo launches his first video game.

The smallest story in the room. The first player is proof that the room exists.

opening round10K mincoin
02 / 03third act

An author launches his 3rd book.

Not a debut. A return. The signal is whether the work compounds instead of merely arriving.

opening round25K mincoin
03 / 03deep build

A researcher launches a platform after 6 years.

A long private arc becomes public infrastructure. The round buys the first reliable bridge.

opening round50K mincoin
Level 01 · Seed

The first game is the first signal.

A small round can fund the moment a private idea becomes playable. The network gets a new object to point at, test, and carry.

Parallel flow · opening model
mincoin
10K
information
28K

Power level: the network

Where the future gets carried.

Network layer · 04

Every round needs a world around it.

Build In Public University and Twitter compete for the same scarce resource: the ability to turn a story into shared context, then shared action.

Competing network A

Build In Public University

Structured learning, recurring context, and a closer loop between the builder and the people who can help.

money flow25K
information flow80K
power level04
Competing network B

Twitter

Fast public distribution. Weak continuity by default. Its energy is reach; the cost is remembering what happened.

money flow10K
information flow120K
power level03

The equivalenceMoney buys runway. Information buys surface area. A market becomes legible when both flows can be read together.

The warningThese are model units, not settled transactions. A bright number is not a receipt. It is an invitation to find one.