What if we unite the joy of sharing with the meaning of charity? We call it sharity.
Before we tell you anything, we’d like to ask you a few things. Not for us. For you.
Four
honest questions
Pick what’s true. Your answers stay on your device and are sent nowhere.
What amount would give you one month without worrying about money?
Not for luxury. Just to breathe, pay what’s due, and think about something else for a while.
How many people in your life would give you that amount, right when you needed it, with no savings to fall back on?
Not lend. Give. Without making you feel small about it.
And if you needed it, and there was no one to ask, where would you go?
We asked ourselves the same questions. For many of us the answers were anxiety, $1,000, one person, nowhere. That’s where this idea came from.
Strangers giving each other that month
That’s a 1 in 100 chance. Most months it won’t be you. But every month you’ll be one of the ten thousand who gave a hundred people room to breathe. And one month, a hundred strangers might do the same for you.
Yes, it’s a lottery
We won’t dress it up. In usual lotteries one person takes a fortune and the organizer takes a large cut. Here the pool is split equally among many, and nothing is kept.
Known odds, always
The number of participants is fixed in advance, so the odds are fixed too. No fine print, no changing rules mid-game.
Verifiable by anyone
The draw must be random in a way no one, including us, can rig, and anyone can check. If we can’t build that, we don’t build at all.
What we don’t know
Randomness doesn’t create money; it only decides who gets lucky. Over a year of $10 a month, roughly 9 in 10 participants will receive nothing back. We won’t pretend otherwise.
Some countries require a license, some ban it outright. Until lawyers tell us this can be done legally, we launch nothing and collect nothing.
We believe it grows and gets passed on. But that’s a hypothesis, and only people can test it.
Building, auditing and legal work cost money, and we don’t yet know how to pay for them without taking anything from participants. That is an open question.