Terms, Founder Spectacle

These terms cover Founder Spectacle, where people post an idea, give themselves a deadline, and either ship it or release it to the public.

The clock

If you choose the clock lane, you set your own finish line and your own deadline. The deadline has to be at least 30 days out and no more than 90 days out. You can ask for one extension, before your deadline passes, and it adds 30 days. The extension is shown publicly on your idea.

Missing the deadline

If your deadline passes and you have not marked the idea shipped, the written submission releases automatically under a CC BY 4.0 license. This happens automatically, permanently, and there is no appeal.

Release is non exclusive. You can still build the idea yourself at any time after it releases. Nobody who claims a released idea gets an exclusive right to it, and neither do you.

Release covers only the written text you submitted. It never covers code, trademarks, domain names, or an existing company. Your credit as the original author stays on the idea permanently, wherever it is shown.

Withdrawing

You can withdraw your idea at any time before the deadline. A withdrawal is shown publicly. Once an idea has released, it cannot be withdrawn.

What you are promising

By posting, you are saying the idea is yours to share, that it is not covered by an NDA or an employment agreement, and that it does not contain anything confidential or anything that belongs to someone else.

What we do not promise

We do not keep your idea secret. We do not give it any legal protection. We do not vet the people who claim released ideas. We do not take a finder's fee, equity, or an advisory role in anything that gets built here.

Video

Video is handled separately from the written idea and never releases to the commons. If you add a video, you are giving us permission to show it on your idea page and on this project's own social channels, and nothing more. It comes down if you ask, or if your idea is withdrawn.

If you claim a released idea

You must credit the original author publicly wherever you show what you built. You own what you build. The original author has no claim on it.

Takedowns

We will take an idea down for plagiarism, breach of confidentiality, harassment, illegality, or if the original author tells us it was posted by mistake.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, ideas already on the clock keep the terms they were submitted under.