Stake real money on your next launch. Ship by your deadline and get every dollar back — plus a permanent trophy page on Pooper.ai.
Don't ship? Your stake goes to a charity you genuinely can't stand. No exceptions. No negotiations. No mercy.
Yale behavioral economists discovered: putting money at stake makes you 3× more likely to succeed. Choosing an anti-charity you despise makes that number even higher — because losing money to your ideological enemy hurts in a way that motivates action like nothing else.
— Karlan & Ayres, Yale University (the people who literally invented this)Willpower fails. Behavioral economics doesn't. Here's why Pooper.ai works when everything else hasn't.
Your brain weights potential losses roughly twice as heavily as equivalent gains. When $100 is on the line, you don't just want the reward — you're terrified of the loss. Pooper.ai weaponizes this. That $100 sitting in escrow feels like it's already gone. You fight to get it back.
Normal charity pledges are nice. Anti-charity pledges are visceral. The thought of YOUR money going to a cause you genuinely oppose creates a specific kind of motivated disgust that studies show is more effective than any positive incentive. You don't just want to succeed. You need to prevent the alternative.
Robert Cialdini's research on consistency: once people make a public commitment, they feel intense psychological pressure to follow through. Your pledge is public the moment you submit. Your name is on the line. Your community is watching. That's not pressure — that's fuel.
We're wired to overvalue now and undervalue later. "I'll build it next weekend" is present bias talking. A hard deadline with financial consequences forces your future self to compete with your present self. The deadline stops being abstract the moment money is on the line.
There are two kinds of developers. Which one are you? And more importantly — which one do you want to be?
Simple enough to explain in a tweet. Hard enough that the stakes are real.
One sentence. What are you building? The clarity of your commitment is step one.
$50, $100, or $250. Pick a charity you despise. Set your deadline. Click commit.
Vibe code it. Use AI. Use duct tape. We don't care how — just make it live.
Submit your live URL + GitHub before the clock hits zero. A human verifies it works.
Ship → money back + permanent trophy page. Float → money to your enemy. Forever.
"We ask people to put up their own cash as a motivator to make a change. The threat of losing something you already own is far more motivating than the lure of gaining something you never had."Jordan Goldberg, CEO of stickK — the platform that analyzed 533,000 commitments
"Participants who chose an anti-charity showed measurably stronger follow-through than those who chose a charity they supported. The aversion to funding the enemy is a more powerful motivator than the desire to support a cause."Behavioral economics research on commitment contracts, 2010
This is not a regular donation. You personally selected this charity because you find it objectionable. You will receive a donation receipt showing your name and the amount. That's intentional. The social cost of that receipt showing up in your email is part of the motivation system.
These are real commitments on the board. Ships and sinks in real time.
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The research is clear: higher stakes → higher completion rates. Pick the number that makes your stomach drop a little. That's the right number.
Good for first-timers. You'll feel it but you won't lose sleep.
The sweet spot. Real enough to override Netflix. Not so much your partner finds out.
Highest completion rate. At this level the stakes are real enough that almost everyone ships.
Pooper.ai keeps 15% as a platform fee. The remaining 85% is returned to you (if you ship) or sent to your chosen charity (if you float). Zero other fees. No subscriptions.
The clock starts the moment you submit. There is no going back. That's the point.
Pick a charity you'd hate to fund. Featured enemies below, or search for any US nonprofit.
⚡ 14 spots remaining this month. We cap commitments to maintain human verification quality.
By submitting, you authorize Pooper.ai to charge your card on your deadline if no live URL is submitted and verified. No extensions. No refunds. Your enemy charity was your choice. We'll remind you of that every week until your deadline.
I've started 50+ side projects. Most died in a folder called "projects" on my desktop. Sound familiar? I built Pooper.ai because I needed it. Turns out, when there's real money on the line and a wall of shame waiting — you actually ship. This isn't a VC-backed startup pretending to care about your productivity. It's a tool built by someone who was tired of their own excuses.
— The Founder, Pooper.ai
Every minute on this page is a minute not shipping. You already know what you're going to build. You've known for weeks. Put $100 on it. Set a deadline. Get off the pot.