Links you actually earned.Verified, never claimed.
Launch-day momentum fades. Domain authority does not. This is a straightforward exchange between founders — with the one rule that stops it becoming a link farm: every placement is fetched and checked before anything moves.
The exchange
How it works
Give first, then receive. The credit balance is simply a record of what you have contributed.
Add your site
One domain, verified as yours. This is what other founders will be linking to, and what you are offering to link from.
Earn credits by placing a link
Publish a link to another member's site somewhere real on yours, then submit the URL of the page it appears on.
We fetch the page and check it
The link has to actually be there, pointing at the right domain, and followed. Credits move only once that passes.
Spend credits to receive links
Your balance is what lets you request placements from other members. Nobody can take without giving.
Integrity
What keeps it honest
Link exchanges have an obvious failure mode: everyone claims placements nobody made, and the whole thing becomes worthless to everybody in it.
Followed links only
A rel="nofollow", "sponsored", or "ugc" link passes no authority. Crediting one would be crediting nothing, so the verifier rejects them outright.
Verified, not claimed
Submitting a URL is not evidence. We fetch the page and read the markup — the placement either exists as described or it does not.
The ledger is append-only
Credit events are never edited or deleted, and your balance is derived from them. History is not undone by removing a row.
It survives the thing that earned it
If a placement is later removed, the record of what happened stays. What you earned is a fact about the past, not a claim about the present.
Place links you would place anyway
This works because founders genuinely have relevant places to link from — a stack page, a tools roundup, a changelog, a comparison post. It is not a directory to bury links in, and a page built only to hold them helps nobody, including you.
Start with one placement
Add your site, link to someone whose product genuinely fits your audience, and the credits follow once it verifies.