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$100Base · Solana
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Who it is for
Kalani Akana, 36, runs a four person team in Hilo, Hawaii that builds a USDC payroll app on Solana. Every Monday she lost about three hours reading six rivals' docs, GitHub releases, governance forums and Discord announcements, and she still missed the week one of them cut its fee to zero. Rival Watch follows the public pages and onchain flows of the projects she names, writes one Monday digest of what actually changed with a link for every claim, and marks anything it is unsure about so she reads the source herself.
Two ways to own it
What you get
Base$100
Yours in 2 to 3 days
A watcher for up to eight named projects: public docs and changelog page diffs, GitHub release and tag feed, governance forum and Snapshot proposal feed, treasury and token unlock flows on Solana and EVM chains, a weekly digest by email or Telegram with a source link on every line, a why it matters note you can tune, an unsure flag, and a searchable change log.
- You choose: accent color and digest name
- You choose: projects and sources watched
- You choose: digest day and channel
- You choose: what counts as important for your team
Customfrom $1,100
Built around you
Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.
- Everything in Base
- Custom features and design
- Priority build
Why it is new
What exists today, and what this does differently
What is new
Page change monitors (Visualping, Distill) and market dashboards (DefiLlama, Token Terminal) exist, and analysts write competitor notes by hand. What is new is one watcher that joins the public sources a crypto team actually reads, docs, GitHub releases, governance forums, treasury and unlock flows, and turns them into a weekly digest that cites every claim, groups changes by why they matter to you, and says plainly when it is guessing.
Closest things out there
Visualping and Distill.io for web page change alerts; GitHub release watching; DefiLlama and Token Terminal for protocol metrics; Messari and paid research newsletters for written analysis. All live; none joins them per team with sources on every line.
Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.
What it unlocks
The human in it
It gives a small team back its Monday morning and keeps it calm: a short list of real changes with sources, not a stream of panic.
The Regatta Board
Races Rival Watch can enter
3 live races fit this app. Each one says why, with its prize and countdown. The rule on existing code is on the race page.
HACKATHONmultichainapply any timeEncode Club hackathons and acceleratorsPrizeNot announcedROLLINGapply any timeWhy it fits. A research agent with cited sources is a common hackathon build; check the current track list.9 other apps can enter tooSee the raceGRANTArbitrumapply any timeArbitrum Foundation Grants / DAO programsFundingNot announcedROLLINGapply any timeWhy it fits. Ecosystem intelligence tooling that helps builders sometimes fits; check current terms.30 other apps can enter tooSee the raceGRANTNEARapply any timeNEAR Foundation / NEAR AI grantsFundingNot announcedROLLINGapply any timeWhy it fits. Agent tooling that cites its sources may fit AI programs; check current terms.10 other apps can enter tooSee the race
See every race on the boardWhat you own
The whole app, not a starter kit.
A complete competitor intelligence business you own: small crypto teams name the projects they watch, your app reads the public record and sends one cited weekly digest, they pay you monthly, and your console runs pricing, growth, source policy and the digest agent.
Base price · $100
The user app, complete
Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.
Illustrated home with this week's lookout status and first-run onboardingHome
Three step welcome that names your first rivals, then the next digest, the time back estimate and live stats.Watch list with sources per projectWatch
Add a project, confirm its docs, GitHub, forum, Snapshot and treasury sources, and pause any source.Docs and changelog diffsWatch
Before and after text for every public page change, with the time it was seen.Releases, proposals and onchain flowsWatch
GitHub releases, Snapshot and forum proposals, and large treasury moves or scheduled unlocks per project.The Monday digest, playableDigest
Run this week's digest and watch it group changes, drop unsourced claims and flag the unsure ones.Importance rulesDigest
Pick the topics your team cares about, like fees or Solana support, and see the digest reorder.Change log with searchLog
Every change seen, filterable by project and source, each with its source link.Plan, permissions, vision and inviteMe
Plans sheet with simulated USDC checkout, the watcher's hard limits, a digest share card and an invite link.Paywall with locked featuresWatch
More projects, forum and onchain sources and Telegram delivery unlock by plan inside the user app.Same day note for urgent topicsDigest
One short note on the day a rival changes something you marked urgent, at most once a day.Add-on
Owner console
Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.
Revenue dashboard and live paywall editorRevenue
MRR, chart, rename tiers, set prices and gates; the user app updates instantly.Payments and pay methodsRevenue
Incoming USDC payments and toggles for USDC on Base, other chains and card.Source policy knobsRules
Fetch interval, robots.txt respect, minimum confidence for a line, max same day notes and the source types allowed.Agent log with failures and adaptationsAgent
A digest run replayed: a misread docs change caught by the source check, a rate limit handled, plus monthly running costs.Roadmap with build requestsRoadmap
v1 included, v2 and v3 add-ons with prices and a Build this with DEPLOYR request.Top-up
Growth and referrals
Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.
Forwarded digest growth loopGrowth
Signups by source, the forwarded digest invite line and a public sector digest run.The money path, built in
How it earns for you
Teams pay a monthly plan by how many projects they watch and which sources they need. Three projects stay free, which brings founders in; growing teams pay for forums, onchain flows, Telegram delivery and more seats.
LookoutFreeThree projects, docs and GitHub releases, one weekly email digest.
Watchtower$19 per monthEight projects, forums, Snapshot and onchain flows, Telegram delivery, importance rules and the same day note.
Harbor Master$59 per monthTwenty projects, several team members with their own topics, searchable archive and a monthly trend summary.
Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.
Growth loops, built in
How it spreads
- A small 'watched by Rival Watch' line with an invite link at the end of every digest that founders forward
- A free public sector digest, like Solana payments this week, that readers subscribe to and then upgrade
- Accelerator and grant program partnerships that give cohorts a free month
- Invites counted as referrals in the owner console
Roadmap · build the next phase with us
Where it goes next
v1 included
One cited weekly digest- Watch list with confirmed public sources
- Docs diffs, GitHub releases and Snapshot proposals
- Treasury and unlock flows
- Digest with sources and the unsure flag
- Plans, paywall editor and payouts
v2
Team topics and trends- Importance rules per team member
- Monthly trend summary across the year
- Slack and Discord delivery to a channel you own
v3
Public sector digests- Co-sponsored public digests per ecosystem
- Reader subscriptions with a free tier
- Embeddable change timeline for any project
The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
Your 2 minute demo script
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
Make it entirely yours
Your digest name and look, extra source types like Dune dashboards or app store listings, private sources your team owns, other chains, or a white label domain are scoped and priced together.
BLUEPRINT
Why it matters and how it really works
The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.
The need
Small crypto teams have to know what their competitors ship, but the signals live in a dozen places: docs pages that change quietly, GitHub releases, governance forums, Snapshot votes, treasury moves and token unlocks. Founders spend hours every week reading them by hand, still miss the one change that mattered, and either panic over noise or learn about a rival's fee cut from their own users.
What exists and what is new
Parts of this exist. Visualping and Distill watch web pages for changes, GitHub can notify on releases, DefiLlama and Token Terminal track protocol metrics, and research firms write analysis. Rival Watch is a medium novelty bundle: one watcher per team that joins those public sources for the projects the team names, writes one weekly digest grouped by why each change matters to this team, cites a source link on every line, and flags anything it is unsure about instead of guessing. Research verdict: parts exist, the joined and cited weekly digest is new.
The data it runs on
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
1.The mission
Give every small team a calm, honest lookout that reads the public record so they can spend Monday building.
2.Why people can't resist it
One Monday digest Eight projects, one short read. Each line says what changed, links the exact source, and says why it might matter to you.
The unsure flag When a change is ambiguous, like a docs edit that might be a fee change, the digest says so and tells you which page to read yourself.
Why it matters, in your words Tell it what your team cares about, like fees, Solana support or payroll features, and changes on those topics rise to the top.
3.How it works for real
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
4.Pricing
Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.
Lookout Free
Three projects, docs and GitHub releases, one weekly digest by email.
Watchtower $19 per month
Eight projects, every source type including forums and onchain flows, Telegram delivery, importance rules and the same day note.
Harbor Master $59 per month
Twenty projects, several team members with their own topics, a searchable change archive and a monthly trend summary.
5.Growth loop
Founders forward the digest to advisors and investors, and each digest carries a small 'watched by Rival Watch' line with an invite link. Teams that share a sector can publish a public weekly digest of the open ecosystem, which brings readers who want their own private one.
6.Risks and guardrails
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
7.Build order
Unlocked when your app is paid in full
8.Where this is going
- Now
One weekly digest of what eight rivals changed, every line cited, delivered on Monday. - Next
Importance rules per team member, a same day note for urgent topics and a monthly trend summary across the year. - Later
Public sector digests that small teams co-sponsor, so a whole ecosystem reads the same honest record of what shipped. - The world it builds
Small teams compete on building, not on who has time to refresh twenty tabs, and nobody learns about a rival's change from an angry user.
Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.
OWNER PLAYBOOK
Own it, then chart your voyage
Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.
Why own Rival Watch
Every small crypto team has a Monday ritual of refreshing rivals' docs, GitHub and forums, and almost every team has a story about the change they missed. Owning Rival Watch means you run the calm lookout that reads the public record for them and sends one short digest with a source on every line. It reads only public pages and official APIs, respects each site's rules, never copies anyone's work and never gives investment advice. Start by running it for a team you know, then offer it to every founder who forwards your digest.
What’s stopping you?
“I am not a researcher. Can I run a research product?”
The app does the reading and the writing. Your job is to set up each team's watch list with them, check that the sources are right, and read the first two digests before they go out. If you can follow a project on GitHub, you can run it.
“What if the digest gets something wrong?”
It will, now and then. That is why every line links its source, lines without a source are dropped, and ambiguous changes carry an unsure flag. Teams trust a digest that admits doubt more than one that sounds certain.
“Is it legal to watch competitors?”
Reading public docs, releases, forums and chain data is what every founder already does by hand. Rival Watch respects robots.txt, rate limits and site terms, uses official APIs, never logs in anywhere and never copies code or text beyond a short quote with a link.
“Big research firms already do this. Why would a team pay me?”
They cover large tokens for investors. A four person team wants its own six rivals, its own topics and a short Monday read for $19 a month. You win on fit and on setting it up with them personally.
A revenue ladder, step by step
Monthly plans per team by projects watched and sources, a Harbor Master plan for larger teams, paid setup for teams that want you to build their watch list, and sponsored public sector digests.
$114 plus setup
$1,700
$11,000
$60,000
First lookouts
6 teams
$19 a month + $100 setup
Known in one ecosystem
60 teams
$19 to $59 a month
Public digests with readers
350 teams plus sponsors
Mixed plans + sponsorship
Default lookout for small teams
2,000 teams
Mixed plans + white label
- The invite line at the end of every digest that founders forward to advisors and investors
- Free public sector digests that turn readers into paying teams
- Accelerator partnerships that start a whole cohort on a free month
Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.
Pick your destination
Grow it into a business
Founders already lose hours a week to competitor reading and feel the cost of a missed change. A cheap, cited weekly digest is an easy yes.ARRIVE: Six teams on Watchtower and your first $114 a month.4 moves · first one within the hour →Raise for it
A cited, joined record of what every project in a sector ships is valuable data. Investors and accelerators ask for it, and it compounds every week.ARRIVE: A one page investor note with retention data and a public sector digest with readers.4 moves · first one within the hour →Become a real builder on a chain
Running a real product that reads public chain data and sends a weekly digest is a strong builder credential on any chain you watch.ARRIVE: A public changelog and an onchain flows source you shipped yourself.4 moves · first one within the hour →Win with it at hackathons
An agent that reads public data and must cite every claim is a clear, demoable hackathon build with an honest safety story.ARRIVE: A hackathon submission with a live digest and a two minute demo video.4 moves · first one within the hour →Run your own work on it
The first team that benefits can be yours. Watching your own rivals frees hours every week.ARRIVE: Your own Monday digest running and the hours you got back written down.4 moves · first one within the hour →Get your people moving
A public digest that shows what a whole ecosystem shipped this week reminds builders that progress is steady, and it brings readers to you.ARRIVE: A weekly public post that builders in your sector look forward to.4 moves · first one within the hour →Partner with founders and projects
Accelerators, ecosystem funds and research newsletters all need a steady record of what projects ship. Partnering puts your digest in front of many teams at once.ARRIVE: One partner that offers Rival Watch to its members.4 moves · first one within the hour →Prove your skills with it
A working research agent with honest citations is a strong portfolio piece for product, data and AI roles.ARRIVE: A case study page with the digest, the citation rule and real usage.4 moves · first one within the hour →Sell it as a service
Some teams want a human to set up and read their watch list each week. That is a paid research service built on your own tool.ARRIVE: Two teams on a monthly done for you research retainer.4 moves · first one within the hour →Moored nearby
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