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Pitch An App – Crowdsourced app ideas with voting and revenue sharing

Pitch An App – Crowdsourced app ideas with voting and revenue sharing

by eibrahim·Feb 27, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●MidBold Bet

Democracizes app-building, but voting-only ideation starves niche-but-viable problems.

Strengths
  • •Revenue-sharing model (submitters + voters) aligns incentives; lowering participation friction
  • •4 shipped apps prove execution isn't theoretical—actual products exist
  • •Explicit about core limitation (only popular ideas survive), showing design honesty
Weaknesses
  • •Majority-rule voting kills niche solutions—founder admits this but no mitigation shipped yet
  • •50% voter discount ($0 pitched) creates leakage risk; unclear how 4 apps hit revenue viability
  • •No moat: competes with Kickstarter, Product Hunt, indie hacker communities on curation alone
Category
SaaS
Target Audience

Non-technical entrepreneurs, bootstrappers, civic-minded people with ideas but no dev skills

Similar To

Kickstarter · Product Hunt · IdeaScale

Post Description

Pitch An App (https://www.pitchanapp.com) is a platform where users submit app ideas, the community votes on them, and ideas that hit the vote threshold get built.

Submitters earn revenue share when their app generates income. Voters get 50% off forever.

9 apps have been built through the platform so far.

The core assumption: non-technical people have good software ideas but no way to act on them. Community voting serves as demand validation before any development starts.

Honest limitations: the vote threshold model means only popular ideas get built, so niche-but-valuable ideas might not make the cut. Working on ways to address that.

Happy to answer questions about the model or the tech.

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