NEXT MOVE · WITHIN THE HOUR
1. Set up Grant Lookout for your own project first
45 minConnect your repo, write the one paragraph profile and pick ten programs. Use it for two weeks so you know every screen and can show a real calendar.
OWNER PLAYBOOK · VOYAGE CHART
Chart your voyage with Grant Lookout
Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Grow it into a business
You want paying customers and steady revenue. Nothing is guaranteed.
MOVES MADE
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WHY THIS ROUTE
Builders who missed a deadline once will pay a small monthly fee never to miss one again, and a first draft saves them an evening per application.
ARRIVED LOOKS LIKE
Fifteen builders on Watchtower and your first $180 a month.
Progress saves on this device. Sign in any time to keep it on your profile.
2. List twenty builders who ship in public
40 minLook at recent hackathon winners, Gitcoin round grantees and builders who post weekly updates on X or Farcaster. Note their project and the programs they applied to.
3. Offer five of them a free month
25 minReply to a builder's own post about a grant or hackathon, or message builders you already know. Quote their project and a deadline they might want. No mass messages.
FIRST MESSAGE · X REPLY OR TELEGRAM DM TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW · TO A BUILDER WHO POSTED ABOUT APPLYING FOR A GRANT
Saw you are applying to the Optimism round. I run a small lookout that keeps every grant and hackathon deadline for your project on one calendar, scores fit against each program's own criteria and drafts the answers from your README. You edit and submit. Want a free month while you apply?
4. Draft one real application with each of them
45 minOn a short call, pick the program that fits best, run the draft writer and go through the open questions together. They submit it themselves.
5. Ask for the plan after the first submission
15 minOnce they submit, offer Watchtower at $12 a month for scores, drafts and change alerts. Ask for one intro to another builder either way.
Check in on me
Leave an email and we nudge you at 24 and 72 hours with your next move. Optional.
Or to keep this voyage on your profile.
PORTS ALONG THE ROUTE
Apps that stack well on this route
LIVE DEMOGrant Ready
A project-in-a-box: contracts, site, docs and impact metrics shaped for grant applications.
Yours in 2 to 3 days
$100Base · Optimism +2
LIVE DEMOGrant Ledger
Show funders exactly what their grant built, milestone by milestone, with proof attached.
Yours in 1 to 2 days
$100Optimism · Arbitrum +2
LIVE DEMOBoost Grants
A community grants round where BGT boosts are the votes.
Yours in 3 to 4 days
$100Berachain
Put your name on the bow
Every route goes further on a vessel you own. Yours in days, one price, paid once.