About ZeroRaised
ZeroRaised is the launch directory for bootstrapped products. Makers launch, the community upvotes, and a new board opens every day. Only products with no institutional VC or accelerator equity. We also publish an AI for founders blog and a weekly newsletter.
How the board works
- Launches go live at 00:01 PT.
- Self-funded, revenue, friends and family, crowdfunding, and grants all count. Products must have no institutional VC or accelerator equity.
- Votes close at midnight PT, when the board is frozen as a permanent record.
- Funding evidence and editorial details are reviewed before a page becomes eligible for search indexing.
What counts as bootstrapped
A product is ineligible if it has ever received institutional venture capital or equity through an accelerator. Self-funding, customer revenue, friends-and-family funding, crowdfunding and non-dilutive grants are allowed. The policy applies to past funding as well as current funding, and submissions are reviewed before publication.
The same wording is published for machine readers at /llms.txt.
Editorial standards for guides
The guides on the blog are written to be checked, not believed. They follow five rules.
- Primary sources only. A claim about a launch site, directory or community comes from that organisation's own published page, and the article links to it.
- Dated citations. Every citation shows the date the source was last checked, because prices, queues and eligibility rules change without notice.
- No invented numbers. Guides do not quote traffic, conversion rates, success rates or ranking promises for any venue, including ZeroRaised. Self-reported launch accounts are labelled as such.
- Silence over guesses. When a public page does not state a price, queue length or rule, the guide says so instead of estimating.
- Disclosure. Each guide states that ZeroRaised is itself a launch site and makes no claim about its audience or results.
Articles show their published date and, when a source or fact changes, an updated date. A plain-markdown version of every article is available by adding /index.md to its URL, and the full text is collected at /llms-full.txt.
Corrections
If a guide cites a page that has changed, or a directory entry lists a wrong cost, account rule or submission URL, send the article or entry, the changed fact and a link to the official source. Use the directory correction form or email hello@zeroraised.com. Corrections are reviewed before anything is changed, and corrected articles carry a new updated date.
Editorial independence
Sponsored placements are labelled, have no vote button or rank, and never replace a launch in the organic list. ZeroRaised does not sell rankings, upvotes, or organic positions, and inclusion in a guide or directory list cannot be bought.
Read the sponsorship standards or launch your bootstrapped product.