Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ZF Grants – Grants and Community Funding in $ZEC
The Zcash Foundation’s new platform for grants and community funding, ZF Grants, is open for proposals! The Foundation plans to dispense the Zcash equivalent of $500,000 through ZF Grants in 2019. As one of the contributors to this project, I'm super interested in hearing what the community here thinks. You can learn more about ZF Grants at https://grants.zfnd.org/ and https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zf-grants-is-ready/ Happy to field any questions about the platform :)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ZF Grants – Grants and Community Funding in $ZEC launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN We built a tool to help founders understand how modern fundraising (with safes) works, and how much dilution you can expect when raising money. The project is open-source. The code is a mess right now, but it'll get better I promise. You can also help with that. We didn't build this to make money. We genuinely did it because we were looking for it, and couldn't find it. We're in fact in the process of fundraising for a company, and at first glance the process looks simple. Just an excel sheet will do! But then the more we dug into it and tried different simulators, the more we realized…
2024 · fundingsimulator.com · its alternatives →
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Community Fund▲396An early-stage accelerator to help communities grow from 0-1
2021 · accelerate.theproductfolks.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · machete.io · its alternatives →
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Exitfund▲735We make raising startup capital easy using community & AI
2023 · exitfund.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (http://aigrant.org). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: http://aigrant.org/#finalists. We just started accepting applications for our third batch! The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply…
2018 · its alternatives →
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+$50B VC pitches in a website. Learn how to raise capital.
2019 · chagency.co.uk · its alternatives →
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A $100M+ grant fund for Ethereum projects 💸 ⛓️
2018 · ecf.network · its alternatives →
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21st Fund▲151I built this after struggling to find relevant grants and fellowships myself. The project started at the EF Hackathon as a credit underwriting and matching agent for founders. After speaking with founders and students, it became clear that discovery itself was the bigger problem. Most people do not know what grants or non-dilutive options exist for them. So I iterated and built 21st.fund. You describe who you are and what you are building, and the tool surfaces relevant grants, fellowships, and programs. The goal is to reduce time spent digging through scattered government sites, PDFs, and…
Jan 2026 · 21st.fund · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I just built a mobile app using Expo (React Native) for a platform that moves $6M/month. It’s a neobank used by 6,500+ nonprofit organizations across the world. One of my biggest challenges, while juggling being a full-time student, was getting permission from Apple/Google to use advanced native features such as Tap to Pay (for in-person donations) and Push Provisioning (for adding your card to your digital wallet). It was months of back-and-forth emails, test case recordings, and also compliance checks. Even after securing Apple/Google’s permission, any minor…
Dec 2025 · hackclub.com · its alternatives →
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Free resource for developers & creators to apply for grants.
2021 · blockchaingrants.org · its alternatives →
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Open sourcing our neobank for nonprofits has been years in the making. We shared our initial launch here back in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257241). Today, I’m happy to announce that our Ruby on Rails codebase is public on GitHub!
2025 · hackclub.com · its alternatives →
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Close deals with 4,324 decision makers of VC-backed startups
2023 · its alternatives →
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Apply, get approved, and get a $50k startup loan in one day
2023 · its alternatives →
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Klava Fund▲71Crowd funding for personal matters or grand causes
2020 · klavalabs.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · launchpad.numoney.exchange · its alternatives →
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Student debt is troubling so many recent graduates that we decided to graduate debt-free from the university. We launched FundingFyre - a database of startup pitch decks, pitch videos and investment memos… all together 1,500+ items. You can filter the resources by funding round, size, etc. Many of you might be raising Seed or Series-A funding and these resources would be immensely helpful. We kept it a paid service to earn enough to pay our tuition fees and cover living expenses. But for the HackerNews community, we have a 50% discount, please use code “HN2022”. We’re four students (Grade 12…
2022 · fundingfyre.com · its alternatives →
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Charityvest▲69A simple, free, personal charitable giving fund
2019 · charityvest.org · its alternatives →
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$50K Investment for startups tackling the coronavirus crisis
2020 · wefunder.com · its alternatives →
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